Hi Brandon. It was a while back when I looked at the latest version of CDEX and I think it's the version on www.whitestick.co.uk that was no longer freeware, version 1.6.0 beta. Despite it being advertised as freeware, I remember downloading and seeing that it had now become shareware.
I still use version 1.51 occasionally when I'm wanting to rip and merge tracks from a CD into WAV files and this version still seems to be around on most web sites though most recommend that you upgrade the lame encoder. Couldn't agree with you more that it's all about what you listen to and on what equipment. Personally, I have a laptop in my lounge linked wirelessly to my collection which is held on external hard drives in my converted loft office. The laptop has an external USB soundcard that is in turn linked into my Linn hi-fi and I get a great sound with lossless WMA. I also have a creative zen portable player and have music encoded in MP3 at 320kbps on this player, so, as you say, it's really horses for courses. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brandon Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 7:16 PM Subject: Re: ripping CD's with windows media player > hi kevin, > you probably have some good points here. i haven't really bothered to try > and mess with media player for live albums in my posession. > as for doing better with WMA, yeah. some of microsoft's products do actually > work together. > > there are several bonuses for winamp, though. for one, it's about half the > size of media player, even with the full version, which if you're on dial up > like myself is a plus. also all the shoutcast stations that are available > and free to broadcast to and listen to. i'm a pretty big fan of internet > radio and i like shoutcast and icecast stuff. > the winamp library i think does actually rip into WMA lossless, in the > latest version 5.22. mp3 ripping is not available without purchasse, which > is kind of sucky, but it does offer aac+ and if there were media players out > there you can bet i'd have everything in that beautiful beautiful format. > > I didn't know that CDEX had released a new version that isn't free. can you > send me the url so I can check it out? > the free version also rips into aac+, mp3, ogg and a few lossless encoding > technologies, so if i ever used them i'd do that. however i can't tell much > of a difference between the original cd and my 192 kbps mp3 files, or even > my 120 kbps ogg files with whatever compression i installed, can't remember > the name of it at the moment. > i suppose it all comes down to what you use the media player for, the music > you rip and what you listen to. > brandon > > Brandon Hicks > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Skype: callto://reyuth > msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... > http://www.pc-audio.org > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This list is a service of MosenExplosion.com. To see what other lists we offer, visit us on the web at http://www.MosenExplosion.com
