dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

[rainforest1155]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

There is no benefit of converting a JPG to a PNG. The compression and loss has already occurred. If you don't want dB to resize the jpg and loose more quality change the settings.

Actually, each re-saving of a jpg file further reduces quality as far as I know. That's why usually it's recommended to go back to the original file.

In any case, I have lots of PNG covers and would like to get at least support for those existing ones for the cover functionality that dBpoweramp offers.

[EliC]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

There is no benefit of converting a JPG to a PNG. The compression and loss has already occurred. If you don't want dB to resize the jpg and loose more quality change the settings.

[rainforest1155]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

Can you add support for PNG files? All my covers are PNG's as they are lossless and not considerably larger than JPGs.
It would be nice if the 'arrange audio' encoder plugin would move PNG files as well.
Maybe you could even add PNG creation support in the CD ripper as an option in the settings?
This format also makes sense if you take available covers from Google image search which are mostly JPG and might be already compressed considerably - reconverting to fit the dBpoweramp resolution settings would then decrease the quality further.

If this is a bigger request, feel free to move the post to the feature requests - I'm unaware of the implications of this request.

Thanks,
Sebastian

[Spoon]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

It would be included in the upgrade price.

[rainforest1155]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

Correct, metadata access which does not expire after one year.

Will that apply for upgrades from R12 and R13 as well? Or would we have to buy the full version to get the unlimited metadata access?

Thanks,
Sebastian

[pputzer]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

The "choose album art" feature worked great until a few days ago. Since then, I only get one or two images per album (labeled AMG or GD3, so I guess those are NOT from a Google Image search). Most likely, this behaviour is related to the recent Google update http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/...-new-look.html.

[Spoon]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

I have changed the code slightly to correct this potential issue, next beta release will include.

[iangrant]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

The new album art searches and selector are great, although I just noticed that it appears to have put the cover type as 'back cover' (when looking at the resulting rips in Mp3tag). Anyone else noticed this? Will find time later to check if this was a one-off or operator issue...

[Spoon]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

Correct, metadata access which does not expire after one year.

[EliC]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

Only spoon can answer for sure, but currently you have to buy the premium meta-data plans every year. I take this to mean that R14 would include access to premium meta-data for as long as you are using R14.

[Salem874]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

What exactly is meant by...

[...]R14 will include metadata for life included with CD Ripper.

Can you explain, clarify this?

[Spoon]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

Searching on square images which are medium resolution

[EliC]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

We use google images

what search terms are you using? When I search google images manually I get very different results.

[Spoon]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

We use google images

[EliC]

Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14 Discussions

New dMC R14.x Requests and Suggestions thread, now that R13 is nearing the end of its life cycle.

Spoon, first, thank you for implementing the "Choose Art" feature I have been requesting for some time. With the new "Choose Art" there are often no results displayed. I am not sure what resources you are searching, but dBpoweramp should at least display a message such as "no results found" or I can't tell if the search crashed or there are no results. BTW, google seems to have plenty of results for the ones I have tried. Albumartexchange is clearly not being searched as they have much better files then the auto search is turning up.