Download dBpoweramp Music Converter R2023.12.22

Illustrate has released a new version of dBpoweramp Music Converter. This audio editing program can rip audio CDs and convert music files to and from MP3, M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkey's Audio, Flac and Alac, among others, while retaining tags. Furthermore, the MP3 tags can be customized and the program fully integrates into Windows Explorer, making it easy to invoke. The basic version, for ripping CDs and converting files, is free. For additional functionality must be paid. The program is available for Windows and macOS. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Release 2023-12-22

• dBpoweramp can now also decode:
  • .rm)
  • .snd)
  • 3GPP (.3gp)
  • AC-3 (.ac3)
  • AMR (.amr)
  • AMR (.awb),
  • AU/SND (.au
  • Creative Voice (.voc)
  • DTS (.dts)
  • DTS-HD (.dtshd)
  • E-AC-3 (.eac3)
  • MLP (.mlp)
  • MPEG-TS (.ts)
  • Matroska Audio (.mka)
  • Real Audio (.ra
  • Shorten (.shn)
  • Speex updated to 1.2.1 (decoder)
  • The True Audio (.tta)
  • Tom's Audio Kompressor (.branch)
  • TwinVQ (.vqf)
  • Web Audio (.weba)
• Monkeys Audio updated to 10.37
• Wavpack supports older v3 files
• Discogs – composer added from Discogs
• Windows 11 – removed old convert to and edit id tags shell menus
• Write/Read XML DSP Effect – multi artist/composer etc compatible
• Tag Editor – the delete [x] button for album art is closer to the art, makes easier on large displays
• DSD can read tags from DSD1024
• DSD256 DOP support (decoder)
• Able to decode all M4A/MP4 codecs.
• Test Conversion: Report an error if no audio was decoded.
• Prevented blank ID3v2 tags from being written in some scenarios.
• WAV: Change tag type if asked to save ReplayGain and existing tags can't hold ReplayGain.
• Musepack: implemented ReplayGain info saving for Musepack SV8 files.

Bug fixes

• VST regression
• .aac file with an id3v2 would not always decode correctly
• .aac tag writing
• Could have two windows 11 shell items
• Audio properties not passed through to encoder/dsp, seen more in Write XML DSP Effect
• MP3: Do not falsely report files with VBR headers (or VBRI) as gapless if they have no actual gapless info
• Some Ogg FLAC files not being decoded correctly
• Vorbis + Opus: Fixed channel order & missing channel masks for >2 channel content
• Speex bug fix
• m4a aac gapless decoding improvements
• DSD1024 decoding failures.
• dsf files being decoded with extra padding at the end.
• Fixed incorrect decoding and encoding of AIFF 8-bit.
• Fixed specific rare Monkey's Audio files being decoded incorrectly.
• Fixed HE-AAC not being decoded gaplessly.