Review by Stephen Judge
(almost 3 years ago, using version 1.70b2)
@Ejrech Read your comment about CDex's ability to extract media information
for you rare CD's. The reason for this has nothing to do with CDex really.
CDex like most other free and open source CD rippers get their CD information
from the FreeDB which is a user contribution supported not-for-profit project to
index music. Winamp, iTunes and other commercial players and rippers get their
information from Gracenote CDDB which is a commercial enterprise to catalogue
music and they get their data directly from the record labels. They then
license the use of the database to companies like AOL(Winamop) and Apple(iTunes)
etc. So, you can either stick to non free software and the CDDB or you can help
build a the FreeDB by submitting your CD information to the FreeDB via programs
such as CDex.
Review by Stephen Judge (almost 3 years ago, using version 1.70b2)
@Ejrech Read your comment about CDex's ability to extract media information for you rare CD's. The reason for this has nothing to do with CDex really. CDex like most other free and open source CD rippers get their CD information from the FreeDB which is a user contribution supported not-for-profit project to index music. Winamp, iTunes and other commercial players and rippers get their information from Gracenote CDDB which is a commercial enterprise to catalogue music and they get their data directly from the record labels. They then license the use of the database to companies like AOL(Winamop) and Apple(iTunes) etc. So, you can either stick to non free software and the CDDB or you can help build a the FreeDB by submitting your CD information to the FreeDB via programs such as CDex.