Download dBpowerAMP Music Converter 15.0

Illustrate has released release 15 of dBpowerAMP Music Converter. This audio editing program can rip audio CDs and convert music files to and from mp3, mp4, m4a, wma, Ogg Vorbis, aac, Monkey’s Audio, flac, alac, among others, while preserving mp3 tags. Furthermore, the MP3 tags can be customized and the program can be fully integrated into Windows Explorer, making it easy to invoke. The basic version, for ripping CDs and converting files, is free. In front of additional functionality must be paid. The following changes have been made in this update:

Release 15

• 64 bit version
• Has new configuration option to set location of temporary files (used for non-live DSP effects), new -tmpfolder=”” option for CoreConverter.exe
• m4a album art reader able to read incorrectly written art (from MAX)
• m4a new FDK decoder is used
• Batch Converter no longer checks drives for content on load.
• New flac 1.3.0
• flac has rating tagging option of 0-5 0-10 and 0-100 ranges
• flac able to detect corrupted files without md5
• New Wavpack 4.70.0
• Monkeys Audio updated to 4.12
• mp3 decoder is able to read through stream errors
• mp3 id3 able to read and write TIPL (Involved People) and TMCL (Musician Credits)
• mp3 id3 tagger writes COMMENT ITUNNORM for ITUNNORM
• mp3 id3 fixed mapping of release time to release date
• mp3 tagger will auto upgrade id3v1 tag to id3v2 if malfunction album art
• Album Art (internet search) is able to search more art
• Added a new [origdrive] naming variable, can be used instead of ‘To Folder’ in Music Converter
• New Naming items [FRONTFOLDER] and [BACKFOLDER]
• New Naming option: [IF]tag,condition,match,stringmatch,stringnomatch[]
• Music Converter is more memory efficient with large number of tracks
• Music Converter dmc – if converting 3 files and have 16 cores, only shows 3 conversion lines
• Compatible with CUE Image Codec / DSP
• Multi-Encoder will enable multi-core encoding in CD Ripper
• Popup info tip is limited to 34 lines to stop the deletion dialog for Windows being off screen (top and bottom)
• Transform codecs (mp3, etc) do not show sample depth
• Batch converter: only hides when Music Converter is ready to take over (previously with 100K tracks nothing would show whilst loading the tracks to music converter)
• Batch converter: Refresh detects deleted folders
• All programs which write tags, now retries for longer

CD Ripper

• Musicbrainz album art supported
• Musicbrainz multiple artist names supported
• New option ‘ANSI (ISO-8859) Characters Only in Filename’ on ‘Filename Restricted Characters Page’
• Allow review metadata page even if did not get from internet
• Sort tags are now tied to a unsort tag (in that if perfectmeta chooses an element from amg, the corresponding sort tag would be used)
• On metadata review page new captialize button (just first char) next to smart cap
• New option to process fingerprints for accuraterip

Bug Fixes

• m4a possible decoding deadlock / crash
• m4a able to read 24 bit ALAC files where the file is incorrectly indicated as both 16 bit and 24 bit
• m4a able to tag files with multiple trak chunks
• aiff tagger – was possible to write a blank tag to the file which had the incorrect size
• aiff tagger – writes unicode tags
• wave ID3 tagger would not read tags which were indicated of a less size
• Was possible for encoding to lockup at 99% encoding (especially if using [multi-encoder])
• CD eject code would not function correctly on some systems, taking 16 seconds to complete
• Core converter – a DSP effect removed the conversion will no longer silently fail
• CD Ripper would truncate the album tag if contained ‘; ‘
• CD Ripper if using File Name Restricted Characters to remove . from filename, the . for extension is no longer removed
• CD Ripper custom tags would replace saved edited custom tag from dbcache
• CD Ripper changing encoder or profile on 2nd CD ripper would effect first CD ripper