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    dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    A functional beta of R14, for XP and above (NT, Win 9x have been dropped).

    It is hoped that R14 will be code complete by July with a possible release in August or later.

    R14 will include metadata for life included with CD Ripper.

    Download:

    <now release>

    4.6MB

    Registered users: Install over the top of your registered version, this beta times out September 2010.

    Changes:

    Music Converter & CD Ripper show % 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)
    CD Ripper - AccurateRip v2: able to check across pressings & Better CRC implementation
    Reference can support upto 16 cpus
    Multi-encoder added as standard *** have to update dmc help to point to multiencoder
    Choose Album Art button in CD Ripper - searches the internet for album art
    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
    CD Ripper: Info display defaults to on for first run
    CD ripper: if have the technical column on then write to the log file (ie pre-emph will be written to the log)
    Bug - xclass where make legal filename - where shorten a folder, this can leave a ' ' or . on the end which is not allowed
    CD Ripper PerfectMeta access no longer subscription based, instead tied to Reference License
    CD Ripper shows SonataDB when classical data comes from SonataDB (in manual meta review and popup meta info)
    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)
    CD Ripper retrieves sort tags
    CD Ripper added extra meta data fields
    CD Ripper added +50 and +100 offset to track number
    CD Ripper - bug fix - 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.
    CD Ripper any metadata which came in Artist, the is replaced The Artist (before the rule to put to Artist, The)
    .bwf added to wave decoder
    Windows 7 & Vista audio property support (Details tab on properties, details section on Explorer, Explorer Columns)
    Reference comes complete with time unlimited PerfectMeta
    Batch Converter supports Windows Libraries on Windows 7
    Bug Fix: CD Ripper >> Review MetaData >> if 'To All' was clicked would only do for items on screen
    CD Ripper & Batch Converter - if move the page to another larger display the page is drawn correctly
    CD Ripper - new settings page for Meta >> dBpoweramp cache, option so can set size of cache (defaults to 6MB)
    PerfectMeta - matches [xxx] & (xxx), ' / ' & '/' as same
    Naming - [IFCOMP] tests against anything that is not 'no' and 'false' rather than '1'
    Bug Fix: checksum written to FLAC & mp3
    CD Ripper - default naming now: [IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][artist][][]\[album]\[track] [artist] - [title]
    CD Ripper - freedb can split track specific artists when only indicated on a single track
    mp3 Lame Encoder - quality settings expanded to include half quality values (ie -V 4.5)
    CD Ripper >> Options >> file name character replacement
    CD Ripper can drag and drop album art onto it
    m4a Apple Lossless encoder and decoder included as standard
    AIFF encoder & decoder included as standard
    CD Ripper Gap detection and index detection implimented (new columns to add these items to the display), also used for the [Cue Sheet Image] and Audio CD - Gap Removal DSP
    Bug fix: CD ripper if enabled to overread 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 blocks outside of lead out seperately so even if the drive cannot overread it would not give zero data back for a large number of frames (and fail AR check)
    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
    Bug Fix: mp3 - if had id3v1 & apev2 tag at the end, could lead to reported stream errors
    CD ripper - Secure Options >> new option: Cancel Disc Ripping After any Insecure Track
    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


    Discussions:

    http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthre...oper*post95726

    Choose Album Art Option in CD Ripper:

    Last edited by Spoon; 09-15-2010 at 11:21 AM.

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    AccurateRip updated to use the new AccurateRip v2 CRC (with more accuracy)

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    Update:

    Reference can support upto 16 cpus

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    Update:

    Multi-encoder added as standard *** have to update dmc help to point to multiencoder
    Choose Album Art button in CD Ripper - searches the internet for album art

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    Choose Art updated, tweaks for new changes to google image search.

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    Big Update

    Windows 7 & Vista audio property support (Details tab on properties, details section on Explorer, Explorer Columns)

    BUG FIX - new AR pressing bug - if the CD drive has an offset > 1 sector, ie +696 then is not able to detect multi-pressings
    or if the drive had < offset it would not work

    Reference comes complete with time unlimited PerfectMeta

    All updated internally to new XClass and VS 2010

    CD Ripper retrieves sort tags

    CD Ripper added extra meta data fields

    Explorer Shell - Audio Property tab shows correctly in X64 Windows

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    Minor Update

    Bug Fix: CD Ripper >> ID Tags section, Album Sort displays as "Album SortSoloistsSort".
    Supports DSP Effect multi-cpu with 16 CPU force options (Beta 7 of DSP Effects)

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    Huge update

    ...getting near to the light at the end of the tunnel.

    Changes:

    Install does not show missing propsys.dll on XP
    Batch Converter supports Windows Libraries on Windows 7
    Bug Fix: CD Ripper >> Review MetaData >> if 'To All' was clicked would only do for items on screen
    CD Ripper - new settings page for Meta >> dBpoweramp cache, option so can set size of cache (defaults to 6MB)
    CD Ripper & Batch Converter - if move the page to another larger display the page is drawn correctly
    PerfectMeta - matches [xxx] & (xxx), ' / ' & '/' as same
    Naming - [IFCOMP] tests against anything that is not 'no' and 'false' rather than '1'
    Bug Fix: checksum written to FLAC & mp3
    CD Ripper - default naming now: [IFVALUE]album artist,[album artist],[IFCOMP]Various Artists[][IF!COMP][artist][][]\[album]\[track] [artist] - [title]
    CD Ripper - freedb can split track specific artists when only indicated on a single track
    mp3 Lame Encoder - quality settings expanded to include half quality values (ie -V 4.5)
    CD Ripper >> Options >> file name character replacement
    CD Ripper can drag and drop album art onto it
    m4a Apple Lossless encoder and decoder included as standard
    AIFF encoder & decoder included as standard
    MonkeyAudio & Wavpack decoder as standard
    CD Ripper - Gap detection and index detection implmented (new columns to add these items to the display), also used for the [Cue Sheet Image] and Audio CD - Gap Removal DSP
    Last edited by Spoon; 07-18-2010 at 06:41 AM.

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    Note: those who want Gaps and indexes in the cuesheet image, install the latest Cue Sheet Image codec also.

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    Update

    Bug fix: CD ripper was slow on detecting indexes for cd-extra discs
    Bug fix: CD ripper if enabled to overread 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 blocks outside of lead out seperately so even if the drive cannot overread it would not give zero data back for a large number of frames (and fail AR check)

    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
    Bug Fix: mp3 - if had id3v1 & apev2 tag at the end, could lead to reported stream errors

    CD ripper - Secure Options >> new option: Cancel Disc Ripping After any Insecure Track

    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

    Getting quite close to R14 code complete (one more feature to add).

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    Update

    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

    Now code complete for R14, hope for full release in 6-8 weeks.

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    Re: dBpoweramp Music Converter R14

    Now Released.

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