Dear CDex users!

My goal is to improve the CDex development as much as possible.
Therefore a major boost within the development has to be done.

New Windows versions are released and still many users want support for Windows 95.

Although it is 2007 now, there is a possibility to support these old Windows versions as long as possible.
At least within the CDex 1.x version. This means that with the release of CDex 2 the support for some
of the old Windows versions can be quit.
There is still the possibility to provide support for these systems, using the
Microsoft Layer for Unicode, but with limited support for these platforms.
In the case of a huge demand for these old Windows versions, I will work out a possibility
to still support these versions.

Many CDex users send in feature requests and also bug reports. A lot of great ideas
have been collected in the past and have to be implementend now and I am really keen
to work on all of them.

Right now, I want to say: "Thank you CDex users for your great help!"

At the moment the biggest problem is my development environment and my hardware.
Many users want support for Windows Vista and also for new hardware. Especially in the past,
the demand for multi-core / multi-cpu support has dramatically increased. With this
technology move, the adoption of 64-bit systems in the computer market has increased rapidly.
Therefore the users also demand native 64-bit binaries and support for these systems.

The main goal is to improve CDex to a completely new level and make its usage even better with
an eye on the current technology development!

With more than 32,000,000 downloads, CDex has grown extremely and has a huge user base.
The daily download rate is about 10,000 downloads and the interest of the users is increasing steadily.

I am sure, that there will be even more users in the future, enjoying all the new improvements.

As CDex is a free time project, the support and coding skills are offered for free.
You can download CDex, use it, give it to friends for free, without being afraid to get in trouble or
even paying money for it - it is free software.

CDex lives with its community. The community, every single user, makes CDex special!
All the suggestions and ideas come from the community, are implemented and given back to the community, to every single user, for free.

All this and all your rights are ensured by the GNU General Public License.

I hope, that every single user of CDex enjoys this great software and will be able to help to improve CDex even more.

How can you help?
There are several ways: Writing documentation, helping with the translations, creating
bug reports, writing feature requests, helping other CDex users in the forum.
A great and appreciated help is to make donations.

At the moment the main problem is the hardware and also software for the development environment (Windows Vista and Visual Studio).

The following is needed
Windows Vista support (both 32-bit and 64-bit):
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate FULL VERSION [DVD] (includes 32-bit and 64-bit DVD)

Windows development (both 32-bit and 64-bit):
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2005

Also help and donations for hardware to use with Windows Vista are welcome.
Windows Vista is really a resource beast and eats a lot of memory.

For the support of multi-core systems, multi-threading and also 64-bit support, the following is needed:
-AMD64 multi-core CPU system
-IA-32 multi-core CPU system
-IA-64 multi-core CPU system

For people interested in Mac OS X support, there is the possibility to support the port to Mac OS X by making donations to help buying a Mac mini.

Please visit the donation page.

Feel free to contact me at: cdexos (at) gmail (dot) com

Here are just some of these great ideas from the community, that can be implemented with your help

• Windows Vista support
• Windows XP support
• Better support for all Windows versions
• Full UTF-8 support for all Windows versions
• Microsoft Layer for Unicode for old Windows platforms
• CDex testing on all Windows platforms (virtualized)
• Solve problems under several Windows versions
• Bug fixing of current problems within several Windows versions
• Multithreading support
• Multi-Core / Multi-CPU support
• 64-bit support (native compiled binaries)
• 64-bit codecs support
• Porting CDex to other platforms (Linux, BSD, Mac, ...)
• Linux support
• MacOS X support
• New installer
• Multilanguage installer
• Better multilanguage support within CDex
• Translations to more languages
• CDex documentation
• CDex tutorial for new users
• Automatic CDex updater
• Automatic codec updater
• Burning CDs
• Creating CD images
• Improve copy protected CD ripping
• Support for new codecs
• Playlist editor
• CD-ROM auto detection improvements
• IDv3 editing improvements
• Tag editor (mp3, ogg, ...)
• Auto delete silence
• Fade in/out feature
• Easier interface for new users
• Help / guide interface for new users
• Better batch job timer
• Better CD controls (e.g. handling of "hidden" bonus tracks)
• Expert features
• Command line interface
• Add CDex to Windows list of autorun features (e.g. when a music CD is inserted)
• Better installation / setup information
• Improvement of the registry handling
• Create a logging mechanism
• Error logging support
• Implementing all features in the Feature Requests list
• Fixing all bugs in the Bug Tracker
• Remove dependency of MFC
• Remove dependency of VC6 compiler
• GNU GCC compiler support
• Making CDex more modular
• Plugin interface (easy to write scripts, e.g. Python support)
• New GUI (GTK / wxwidgets)
• Skinning support for CDex (using XML files)
• XML based configuration files

Thanks in advance to all CDex users!

Sincerely Yours, Georgy Berdyshev