Software Update: EZ CD Audio Converter 7.1.4

Poikosoft has released version 7.1.4 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 7.0.7, the following improvements have been made:

Changes in version 7.1.4

• Codec updates
  • Vorbis updated to 1.3.6 with libogg 1.3.3
  • FLAC (1.3.2) updated with libogg 1.3.3
  • Opus (1.2.1) updated with libogg 1.3.3
• Correctly detect and decode mono MP3 files that have (invalid) stereo VBR header
• Always keep the original creation date of the file(s) on metadata update
• Minor user interface improvements

Changes in version 7.1.3

• Microsoft Store App Update

Changes in version 7.1.2

• Audio Converter now supports up to 64 parallel converters
• Audio Converter performance improvements

Changes in version 7.1.1

• Audio CD Ripper improvements
  • Added error detection compatibility mode that can be enabled for the drives that don’t properly support the hardware-level error detection (C2 error pointers)
  • Improved error recovery
  • Don’t stop on hardware-corrected read error in Normal ripping mode
  • Don’t stop on hardware-corrected read error but report the data error in Error Detection ripping mode
  • Improved ripping/encoding performance by optimizing the CPU usage of the control thread and status window
• Support converting Opus files with .ogg file extension
• Don’t crash when loading a FLAC file that has a corrupt (zero-length) metadata vorbis comment field

Changes in version 7.1

• Performance improvements
  • All codecs and algorithm libraries recompiled and optimized with the latest C++ compilers
  • Notable performance improvements in most of the codecs (MP3, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC)
  • No change in audio quality
• Bugfix: Decoding DSF file larger than 1GB failed
• Bugfix: Adding a folder containing an m3u8 playlist to the Audio Converter added the same files twice

Changes in version 7.0.9

• Fixed loading of MP3/ID3V2 embedded images with unicode description text
• Fixed Shorten (.shn) decoding
• Added support for m3u8 (M3U UTF-8) playlists
• Default padding block is now written to the FLAC files to fix the playback bug of FLAC files in faulty firmware of some Pioneer and Onkyo receivers
  • Default behavior of the official FLAC encoder

Changes in version 7.0.8

• Monkey’s Audio 4.33 codec update
• Fixed a memory leak in video file audio decoder
• Download 500×500 Cover Art from MusicBrainz by default
  • Better default size for embedded cover art
  • Smaller download – faster metadata query
  • High-resolution Cover Art download can be enabled from the Settings