there is a new release of the totally free, nearly completely accessible,
easy to use, and highly functional CDEX CD ripping program.  This new
version incorporates the latest version of the Lame encoder.  Lame
converts CD tracks to MP3 files.  The improvements in Lame may make the
ripped CD tracks sound better, although I haven't tried this new version
yet.  Below is the list of changes.

Kelly



Change log

Version 1.40: (March 2002)

Added MPEG->MPEG transcoding option
Avoid long delays between file conversions when ID3V2 Tag option is
enabled
Make sure that the CD-ROM is ulocked after ripping a CD
Upgraded to Vorbis RC2 (encoder)
Upgraded to latest lame version
Support Winamp Plugins
Support for CDDB protocol level 5

Version 1.30: (March 2001)

Improved MP3 player (switched to MPG123 decoding engine)
CDDB submit support for freedb.org
Recording from a soundcard
Improvements to the playlist file generations
Added support for the Vorbis Encoder / Decoder
Support for GoGo MP3 encoder
Included latest Lame Encoder
Support for latest FAAC DLL

Version 1.20: (December 1999)

Automatically match up the CD drive letter with the CD-ROM device
CDDB ID of mutlti-media CDRoms are now calculated correctly
Better site query of CDDB sites
Fixed (hopefully) windows codec enumeration bug
On the fly encoding for external encoder (if ext encoder supports this)
Added support for FAAC dll
Included latest Lame Encoder (speed and quality improvements)
Added additional settings for Lame Encoder
Setting proper logical drive in CD-ROM configuration dialog
Save the remote CDDB sites properly
Fixed bugs in normalization code (Thanks to Frank!). Decreased
normalization buffer size in order to avoid stack overflow problems
Save Correct TAG (Category Field) when performing Partial Track copy
Added Simple MP3 Player
Switched to Lame Encoder (version 3.58)
Added Joint stereo and Fake Stereo option in Internal Encoder options
Fixed problems when converting MP3->RIFF WAV (was not doing anything)
Made changes to Codec enumeration, hopefully this solves the weird
crashes
Store the CDDB query sites result correctly
Added WMA encoder
Better handling of ASPI errors
Fixed problems with pause button
Avoid system crash when no CD-ROM drive has been found

Version 1.10: (March 1999)

Major re-code of the ripping and encoding part, in order to more easily
add new encoders and to avoid a maintenance trap. Unfortunately, this has
introduced
many new bugs, therefore many service releases were necessary to make it
stable again.
Moved the ripping stuff in a separate DLL.
Added the CD selection bar in the main menu.
Better support for external encoders.
Dropped (or convert WAV files) now also supports multiple CD-ROM
configurations (i.e. the settings of each CD-ROM are saved in the INI
file).
Added support to get the CDDB server list.
More flexible file name building (including dynamic directory creation).
Support for Windows MP3 compression Codec.

Version 1.02: (December 1998)

Minor improvements to version 1.02, mostly related to slow response time
of Windows NT systems.

Version 1.00: (October 1998)

Improved user interface (removed plain buttons for Extracting toolbar)
Added remote CDDB support
Added support for external encoders (AAC/VQF/MP3 like Blade Encoder,
Plugger, L3Enc etc.)
Added support for Blade Encoder DLL
Several bug fixes

Version 0.15: (August 1998)

First public release


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