Download EZ CD Audio Converter 2.8

Poikosoft has released version 2.8 of EZ CD Audio Converter. Formerly released as Easy CD-DA Extractor, EZ CD Audio Converter is an all-in-one audio file ripping, editing and converting program. In addition, it is capable of burning CDs and DVDs. Support is available for all known audio formats, including mp3, aac, he aac, Dolby Pulse, Apple Lossless, flac, Vorbis, Opus and Windows Media Audio. In addition to the paid Ultimate version, there is also a free version that is about less functionality has. Since version 2.5, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 2.8

• Cover Art thumbnail image quality improvements
• Cover Art resize image quality improvements
• Now uses high quality Lanczos image resampling algorithm for Cover Art thumbnails and resizing
• Added Cover Art resize to 1000×1000 (in addition to already existing 500×500, and 300×300)
• Updated Monkey’s Audio codec to 4.13. Maximum file size is now 4GB (previously 2GB)
• Ripping Log now shows the FLAC 1.3.1 version number correctly (it was previously shown as 1.3.0 althought the actual codec was 1.3.1)
• Does not auto-separate Track Artist / Track Title freedb entries that have “: ” in the freedb TTITLEN field, because it mistakenly separated some classical album entries (separation is auto-made when TTITLEN has ” – ” or ” / “)
• Improved M4A file format compatibility. Moved “Xtra” (metadata) atom after “meta” atom, because Pioneer hardware players were not able to read metadata if the “Xtra” atom was preceding “meta” atom
• Improved M4A file format. Don’t write empty values ​​to “Xtra” atom. (Rating, Publisher, URL)
• Added more color to the top main panel because it was too gray 😉
• Minor updates to the user interface

Changes in version 2.7

• Cover Art downloader – search & download Cover Art from GD3 and MusicBrainz
• FLAC, Vorbis, Opus metadata changes:
• Total tracks written to TRACKTOTAL instead of TRACKNUMBER X/Y
• Total discs written to DISCTOTAL instead of DISCNUMBER X/Y
• Addtional Cue Sheet properties: GENRE, DATE, DISCID, MBDISCID, TOC, and COMMENT
• LibOgg 1.3.2 updated to FLAC, Vorbis, and Opus codecs
• Improved Internet download library (stability improvements on connection errors)

Changes in version 2.6

• Improved cover art user interface
• Other minor user interface improvements
• Fixed broken “Make Disc Image” from Data/DVD Video disc
• Updated language files