dBpoweramp r14

dBpoweramp Release 14

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.

I used dbpoweramp to convert my entire itunes library (around 7k songs) to mp3 for use on generic players. This software is really good.

SavageNFS wrote:I used dbpoweramp to convert my entire itunes library (around 7k songs) to mp3 for use on generic players. This software is really good.

Yeah... I don't like iTunes/iPods either! I've had a few, they don't last. Still, my lastest player plays aac/m4a files. dBpoweramp is great!