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NEWBIE WITH CDEX

Hi,
anybody using CDEX?
Installed the lastest version of CDEX and LAME. Followed directions for setup
here http://www.free-codecs.com/guides/CD_Ripping_Encoding_Guide.htm
I ripped a song from a cd and I could navigate to it and play it. On the interface there are controls for playing a track so that you don't have to go to a media player just to check what a track is before ripping. Can't get this"player" to work, to play tracks about to be ripped or a ripped track. I have to go to a media player to do this.
Besides the play contols on the interface, you can go Tools > Media file Player which gives a little interface that replicates the controls. No luck there either. On that little interface it says "no file selected"  but there is nowhere that I can find to select a file.

Selecting a file on the track list on the main interface first, bears no fruit but the tme counter at the bottom starts ticking over as if it is playing but no sound. ( sound is on. if I navigate to the ripped track i can play it in Windows media player.)
Help please


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UPDATE
Hmmm
 Just found a tick box in the settings "DIGITAL CDPLAYBACK" so thats got the CD playing but how to test a ripped track and the seperate little interface is still a mystery
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It's not free but you might want to consider moving to a different piece of software like Easy CD-DA Extractor. http://www.poikosoft.com/
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I'm sure there are more user friendly apps but reading around, CDEX appears to be top notch in terms of quality encoding - if ya want top quality mp3's - and it's free
the quality of the encoding is based on the encoding library used. LAME is pretty good, but there are other apps that use LAME, even free ones, that are simpler to use if you're not

also consider http://www.mp3-converter.com/cdda_xtractor.htm
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personally i have used cdex to backup and rip songs to my computer for years and i think its clearly the best program. I personally rip my music to a folder using cdex then open it using winamp! ive never in all my time using cdex used it too listen to the music file!
Hello there!

the solution is simple, but you need to know: the "player" isn't a real player, but it uses winamp plugins to play files. now, the problem is that the can't include the winamp plugin for cd plugin (legal reasons, probably).

Solution:

1) Navigate to CDex install dir.
2)Then to Plugins\

3) Get the winamp plugin by installing winamp and pulling the in_cd.dll from your winamp\plugins\ folder to the Cdex plugin folder *OR*
4) write me an email (profile) and i'll send you the dll. (if you hate winamp and don't want to install it.)

Let me know if it worked.

Btw: if you want top quality mp3s not using up to much space: consider my settings, which use higher quality than most rippers (itunes, etc):
--alt-preset medium -h --vbr-new -

Greetings!
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Jere997
thanks
how to put your setting --alt-preset medium -h --vbr-new -  in?
It is not on the droplist and there is no "custom" so that I can put it in.
Ideas?
 Version is 1.51 - preume this is the latest.

Yes pls send winamp dll - will email
thank you,
Ralph
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SORRY GUYS,
I forgot about this post. i solved the problem by clicking on something in the options I think but then later made it use win media player later as default.

But there is a lot of good info in the responses. i don't know what to do with all this in terms of finishing it up, the points etc?
Anyone?