Software Update: dBpowerAMP Music Converter 15.1

Illustrate has released release 15.1 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. For additional functionality must be paid. The following changes have been made in this update:

Release 15.1

• Changed overwrite page so works on non-standard windows (onshow was called twice)
• Can enter a dynamic naming string of more than 1000 characters
• Acquire from scanner, works on 64 bit system where does not have 64 bit scanner drivers
• Batch Converter: auto expands tree item on selection
• Batch Converter: if started from a location cannot find in network, it is added anyhow
• Conversion error and info page now accepts escape key to close
• 64 bit installation will clean parts of the 32 bit install which would cause a conflict if left
• FLAC ID tags updated to preserve all r in lyric tag
• m4a decoder optimized for fast property reading
• Professional Frequency conversion enabled for all routines
• Popup info tip no longer shows a negative compression ratio (was previously possible with rounding errors)
• CD Ripper: artist column always shown, even if not a compilation
• CD Ripper: submit to AMG and AMG settings page removed as no longer relevant
• Comments with multi lines, for mp3 are written to a single comment tag (was previously multiple comment tags)
• m4a decoder update is now compatible with converting audio from video m4a files

Bug Fixes

• Property handler dll (64 bit) had a msvcrt100.dll dependency which has now been removed
• mp3 files which were very short (mili seconds) would not decode
• Batch Converter, if press space to select check in folder, it did not toggle correctly
• CD Ripper: manual meta review page, if change an item such as artist when in compilation mode, then click the composer to all button the old artist value would appear
• AIFF was possible for id tagger to corrupt the file
• ALAC decoder would not work if file was 24 bit and 6 or more channels
• if set dynamic naming to [origpath][origfilename] in music converter then list / rename, the output to filename would be blank
• id3v2 tag writer would read a written rating of 1 as 0.5 (also 2 was affected)
• wave-mp3 encoder now more compatible with other applications
• cd ripper could crash whilst encoding
• cd ripper >> column menu >> Default Columns works once more
• Could lockup explorer whilst the edit tag page was shown on 64 bit Windows