Illustrate dBpowerAMP Music Converter Reference 14

Illustrate dBpowerAMP Music Converter Reference 14



illustrate's range of audio applications are the benchmark in their respective fields, with over 15 years of expertise perfecting CD Ripping & Audio Conversion.

This download includes dBpoweramp Music Converter, dBpoweramp CD Ripper, dBpoweramp CD Writer, Batch Ripper, Reference Codec Pack Release 3, additional codecs and utilities codecs.

OS : Windows XP/Vista/7 (x86/x64)

Components

1. dBpoweramp Music Converter is 'the standard' tool for audio conversions, with 30 million users:

* Extensive audio codec support: FLAC, Apple Lossless, mp3, mp4, m4a (AAC, iTunes & iPod), Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis
* Preservation of ID Tags and Artwork, correct ID Tags mapping between formats,
* Multi-CPU encoding support,
* DSP effect support (ReplayGain, Volume Normalize, including DirectX and VST effects).

2. dBpoweramp CD Ripper rips Audio CDs fast and bit-perfect:

* Secure Ripping: regarded as the securest of the secure, from the inventors of AccurateRip,
* PerfectMeta uses 5 providers: AMG, GD3, SonataDB, MusicBrainz and freedb,
* High resolution Album Art,
* Don't just rip your CDs, AccurateRip them!

3. dBpoweramp CD Writer:

* Create 74, 80 and 90 minute audio CDs from practically any audio type,
* Burn standard audio CDs playable on ordinary CD players,
* Gapless 'mix' CDs,
* Rip, Mix (tracks), Burn

4. Batch Ripper appeals to commercial ripping houses, radio stations or even individuals with a large number of CDs to Rip:

* Auto and manual loading (open design, most robots supported),
* Multi-drive support,
* Highest quality metadata providers: AMG & GD3
* Lowest commercial per-CD metadata rates

5. Reference Codec Pack Release 3

* A collection of professional and licensed codecs for Reference, which includes: [Calculate Audio CRC], Broadcast Wave Format (BWF), Dalet, FLAC, mp2, mp3 Fraunhofer, Monkeys Audio, Ogg Vorbis, Real Audio Helix (.ra and .mp3), Wave64, WavPack.

6. Additional Codecs

- Popular Codecs

* m4a & mp4 & Apple Lossless: Newest mpeg standard (AAC LC, AAC HE, AAC HE v2, SBR, 3GPP & Apple Lossless ALAC, iTunes, iPod) [.m4a, .mp4, .m4b]
* Musepack: Highest quality lossy codec above 128Kbps [.mpc, .mp+, .mpp]
* Ogg Vorbis: Open source, high quality, includes auToV encoder [.ogg]
* Real Audio Helix: Real Audio [.ra, .rm, .ram, .rmvb]
* Windows Media Audio (WMA): Microsoft's v10 Pro, standard, lossless & voice [.wma, .asf, .wmv]

- Lossless no quality lost, like zip compression

* Apple Lossless: Apple's own Lossless (ALAC, iTunes, iPod) [.m4a]
* FLAC: Popular Open Source Lossless [.flac .fla]
* Monkeys Audio: Great all-round performer [.ape]
* OptimFROG: High-performance lossless [.ofr, .ofs]
* Real Audio Lossless: Real Audio Lossless [.ra, .rm, .ram, .rmvb]
* Shorten: Popular with file traders [.shn]
* The True Audio: Open source [.tta]
* Wavpack: Unique lossless and lossy hybrid mode [.wv .wvc]
* Windows Media Audio: Microsoft's Lossless Audio [.wma, .asf, .wmv]

- Speech audio codecs specifically for spoken word

* m4b Audio Book: Apple Audio book [.m4b]
* Speex: Open Source [.spx]
* Windows Media Audio (WMA): Microsoft's voice [.wma, .asf, .wmv]

- Other Codecs

* AC3: Dobly Digital [.ac3]
* AAC: Advanced Audio Compression [.aac]
* AIFF: Commonly used on Apples [.aif .aiff .aifc]
* Broadcast Wave Format (BWF): Professional broadcast [.wav]
* CLI Encoder: Encode to any Command Line Interface (CLI) encoder
* Dalet: Popular Radio Automation system [.snd]
* DirectShow Decoder: Decode from any DirectX DirectShow installed decoder
* Midi: Musical Instrument Digital Interface [.mid .rmi]
* mp2: Professional broadcast or VCD are common mp2 uses [.mp2]
* mp3 Helix: Incredible 100x encoding speed (2 GHz Dual Core CPU), 4x faster than Lame [.mp3]
* mp3 Fraunhofer IIS: From the designers & creators of mp3 [.mp3]
* Wave64: Sony's extension to the wave format [.w64]

7. Utility Codecs for Music Converter

Utility Codecs do not compress or read audio, rather perform useful actions.

* Audio Info: Extracts audio details and presents them either as a list, or a tab delimiter table (for pasting into a spreadsheet, such as Excel)
* Arrange Audio: Arrange audio files based on ID Tags (Requires Power Pack)
* Calculate Audio CRC: Compares audio files for bit differences, included as standard with dBpoweramp Reference
* Channel Split: Extract multi-channel audio to single files
* Encode Local: Speeds up encoding to network shares
* ID Tag Update: Update tag version, type & manipulate or delete ID Tags
* Length Split: Split files into smaller chunks
* Multi Encoder: Encode to two formats simultaneously
* ReplayGain: Non-destructive volume normalization (requires player to read ReplayGain tags)
* Tag From Filename: Set ID tags from filename or folder names

Change Log - 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.

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