Software Update: dBpoweramp Music Converter R17.1

Illustrate has released release 17.1 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 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 program is available for Windows and macOS. The following changes and improvements have been made in this update:

Release 17.1

• Better handling of centering when opened from Total Commander
• ID Tag editor: if set a tag value to “” then it is removed
• File Properties >> Audio Property Tab – for multiple selected files displays the art from the first file
• File Properties >> ID Tags, ‘…’ button is placed on next line
• File Properties >> ID Tags Art Description Shortened
• Batch Converter: lists file sizes for symbolic linked files
• Naming, if using [origdrive][origpath][origfilename] then filename not touched (previously a filename ‘abc .flac’ would change to ‘abc.flac’ and not overwrite existing
• New Naming value [multitag], if had multiple album artists and want the whole list in the filename then can use [multitag]album artist[] and it would return Artist1; Artist2
• Replaygain: advanced page option to set the maximum gain value, previously a very quiet track would not have track gain or album gain written

CD Ripper

• Graphics overlap improvements
• Smarter handling of metadata if read from CDText, UPC and ISRC when blending with PerfectMETA
• New option >> options >> active providers >> ‘manual metadata search if no metadata’ on by default
• Defaults to Windows Built-in if ripping on Windows Server
• Manual metadata search will read album art from musicbrainz
• Reads artists better from discogs on various artist cds

Codecs

• Preserves carriage returns in the tags for CUESHEET and EACLOG tags
• Wavpack updated to 5.3.0
• m4a FDK updated to 2.0.1
• Ogg Vorbis updated to (Ogg v1.3.4 Vorbis V1.3.6)
• m4a decoder: works with symbolic linked files
• DSD Tag writer, saves in Unicode
• ID3v2 tags TBPM now mapped to BPM

Bug Fixes

• Scripting wasn’t working
• If the option to use a specific temporary folder was used, it was possible for temporary files to be saved not in this folder (in %tmp%) which could fail when later in encoding process
• Flac was detailed as ‘1.3.3 beta’ when in fact it was 1.3.3
• Music Converter when finishing would leave old ‘Writing ID Tags’ message under the cpu encoder line
• Multi-encoder was not working correctly always with dynamic naming for music converter
• CD Ripper can rip directly to .dsf files, if the option to write to temp ._ files is on
• If installed 32 bit dBpoweramp in 64 bit Windows, then would not allow edit id tags
• CD Ripper track listed could still show composer if removed from manual metadata review page
• Manual Discogs release lookup could fail
• naming [REPLACE] and [SPLIT] now use rather than , to signify comma to replace or split on, this allows empty strings to be set for replace, to replace space with nothing: [replace] ,,[artist][]
• flac and m4a tagging can write tags where is no track number, but only a track count
• Batch Converter ‘reset’ button would crash program
• Pre-emphasis was not always working
• DSP Move Destination File On Error not working correctly with default naming (missing drive)