CDex can extract the data directly (digital) from an Audio CD, which is generally called a CD Ripper or a CDDA utility. Advanced jitter correction (based on the cd-paranoia ripping library). The resulting audio file can be a plain WAV file (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or the ripped audio data can be compressed using an audio encoder (MP3, FLAC, AAC, WMA or OGG). CDex also supports many audio file tag formats like the ID3V1 and ID3V2 tags, which can be automatically inserted as part of the ripping process. In addition, WAV files on the hard drive can be converted to a Compressed Audio File.