dBpowerAMP Music Converter 14

Illustrate - (Commercial Trial)

dBpowerAMP Music Converter converts audio files from one format to another allowing to even convert music directly from an audio CD too.

dBpowerAMP Music Converter is an indispensable utility for converting audio files from one format to another. The application is able to convert music directly from an audio CD too. The software can convert MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG VORBIS, REAL AUDIO, WINDOWS MEDIA AUDIO (WMA), VOC and VTX files.

dBpowerAMP Music Converter can apply some effects to enhance the rendering of songs like volume normalization. The program is very easy to use since you have to select the file to convert in Windows Explorer and choose the conversion from the context menu.

dBpowerAMP Music Converter also adds improved tooltip and a tab to the properties of audio documents in Windows. You will find the information contained in the tags without having to open a specific program.

The software offers the possibility to extract the contents of an audio CD. The backup is done directly in the desired size without any conversion, being possible to listen to music on portable media players.

Improving the quality of the files is feasible with integrated effects. It is an amplifier, graphic equalizer, among others. All effects are fully configurable and has its own GUI.

The application is optimized for use with a multi-core processor. This speeds up processing and avoid delays. It also has the ability to convert multiple files simultaneously with one click.

Title:: dBpowerAMP Music Converter 14
File Size:: 6.5 MB
Requirements:: Windows (All Versions)
Language:: en-us
License:: Commercial Trial
Date Added:: 15 Sep 2010
Publisher:: Illustrate
Homepage:: http://www.dbpoweramp.com
MD5 Checksum:: 4E443D5054E24128C4495A6F8B689B69

# Major Features
* CD Ripper - AccurateRip v2: able to check across pressings & improved CRC implementation
* Reference can support up to 16 simultaneous CPUs when encoding
* Choose Album Art button in CD Ripper - searches the internet for album art
* Windows 7 & Vista audio property & thumbnail support (Details tab on properties, details section in Explorer & Explorer Columns)
* Reference comes complete with time unlimited PerfectMeta
* Music Converter & CD Ripper shows % on a Windows 7 taskbar
* Encoder settings stored at start of conversion and used through-out conversion (allows a 2nd conversion to take place at the same time with different settings)
* Multi-encoder added as standard
* mp3 Sort Tags supported TSOA - Album, TSO2 - Album Artist, TSOP - Artist, TSOC - Composer and TSOT - Title (sam as iTunes)
* mp3 year tag written as YYYY only
* Scripting now 64 bit compatible
* Explorer Shell - Audio Property tab shows correctly in X64 Windows
* Professional Frequency Conversion enabled by default (option to disable removed)
* .bwf added to wave decoder
* Batch Converter supports Windows Libraries on Windows 7
* PerfectMeta - matches [xxx] & (xxx), ' / ' & '/' as same
* Naming - [IFCOMP] tests against anything that is not 'no' and 'false' rather than '1'
* mp3 Lame Encoder - quality settings expanded to include half quality values (ie -V 4.5)
* m4a Apple Lossless encoder and decoder included as standard
* AIFF encoder & decoder included as standard
* mp3 ID Tagging - Comment Tags (other than simple comment, such as iTunesNorm) are preserved, also language code correctly set for comment
* mp3 ID Tagging - Lyrics ID3v2 tag (unsync) supported
* Profiles for music converter (have to first enable in dBpoweramp Configuration >> Music Converter >> Enable Profiles in Converter), create profiles by selecting [Create New Profile] in the encoder box
* Edit ID Tag page redesigned, Album art can be added to multiple files in one go, the add button allows adding art from: Internet, File, Scanner, etc
* CD Ripper & Batch Converter - if move the page to another larger display the page is drawn correctly

# CD Ripper
* Secure Options >> new option: Cancel Disc Ripping After any Insecure Track
* Right click on a track >> Detect Artists from Track Names
* Gap detection and index detection implemented (new columns to add these items to the display), also used for the [Cue Sheet Image] and Audio CD - Gap Removal DSP
* Options >> file name character replacement
* Can drag and drop album art onto it
* Default naming now: [IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][artist][][][album][track] [artist] - [title]
* freedb can split track specific artists when only indicated on a single track
* Retrieves sort tags (does not write by default)
* Added extra meta data fields
* Added +50 and +100 offset to track number
* Any metadata which came in Artist, the is replaced The Artist (before the rule to put to Artist, The)
* New settings page for Meta >> dBpoweramp cache, option so can set size of cache (defaults to 6MB)
* Info display defaults to on for first run
* If have the technical column on then write to the log file (ie pre-emph will be written to the log)
* Shows SonataDB when classical data comes from SonataDB (in manual meta review and popup meta info)

# Bug Fixes
* Xclass where make legal filename - where shorten a folder, this can leave a ' ' or . on the end which is not allowed
* CD Ripper >> Review Metadata >> if 'To All' was clicked would only do for items on screen
* CD ripper if enabled to over read but drive could not then it was possible to ask for 26 frames but the drive would return all 0's for the 26 frames, new code to ask for
* all Bug Bug Fix: mp3 - if had id3v1 & apev2 tag at the end, could lead to reported stream errors
* Checksum written to FLAC & mp3
* Reads Blocks outside of lead out separately so even if the drive cannot over read it would not give zero data back for a large number of frames (and fail AR check)
* When adding Album Art from a png file in the CD Ripper the picture is gray and show size 0x0 in the GUI. The written tag is OK.