CDex and FLAC

This guide acts as a quick and painless way to make a lossless-backup with CDex and FLAC. It does not go into detail about configuring cdparanoia or transferring metadata over to appropriate files using external parameters, etc.

Software needed

Note: CDex should have native FLAC support already

• CDex 1.70 Beta 2
• Flac 1.1.3 Encoder DLL

Installation

Note: Guides assumes your output directory for your files has already been configured if not click on Options menu then click Settings and select Filenames tab

• Install libFLAC.dll to the root CDex directory on your computer (default: cdex_170_beta2)
• See Configuring CDex and CD-ROM Drives

Configuration

• Open CDex and insert a CD into the drive
• Click the Options menu then click Settings and select Encoder tab
• Change Encoder drop down menu to FLAC Encoder DLL
• Change the box so that On the fly Encoding is checked off
• Change the appropriate compression setting level (default: -compression-level 5 |

best: --compression-level 8 )

• Click OK
• Highlight selected tracks you want to extract and click toolbar button second from the top (Extract CD track(s) to Compressed Audio File(s))
• By default cdparanoia will open up and begin extracting tracks from your default CD-ROM drive to the appropriate folders
  

Screenshot

FLAC configured with CDex on the fly

CDex and CUE Sheets

• CDex has limited support for creating CUE sheets in current beta release

See also

• CDex
• cdparanoia

External links

• FLAC command-line advanced thread that shows user how to use FLAC as an external encoder
• DAE Drive Database