CDex and FLAC: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 20:29, 10 January 2013

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.

Note: CDex has native FLAC support; no need to download anything else

Just run the installer. If additional Windows redistributable components are needed, they will be downloaded during install.

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

To use FLAC as external command-line encoder change Encoder to External Encoder and specify flac.exe or your path to appropriate executable. Parameter string:

"-5 -V -o %2 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%b" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%tn/%tt" -T "genre=%g" -"

Note: the number in green can be substituted for appopriate compression level. The default is -5 the best is -8.

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 ==Installation==
-Note: Guides assumes your output directory for your files has already been configured if not
+Just run the installer.  If additional Windows redistributable components are needed, they will be downloaded during install.
-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 [[CDex Drive Configuration|Configuring CDex and CD-ROM Drives]]
 ==Configuration==