Software Update: EZ CD Audio Converter 9.3

Poikosoft has released version 9.3 of EZ CD Audio Converter. EZ CD Audio Converter is an all-in-one program for ripping, editing and converting audio files and can also be used to burn 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. A license costs four bucks and the program can be tried for three weeks. Since version 9.2, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 9.3

• Added Fraunhofer IIS Extended HE-AAC encoder
• Added Fraunhofer IIS AAC-LC, HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2 encoder
• Updated Extended HE-AAC decoder
• Updated AAC-LC, HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2 decoder
• Updated WavPack 5.4.0 codec
• Updated Monkey’s Audio 6.14 codec
• Reworked settings UI
• Setting to specify which additional metadata is written to the Cue Sheet [.cue]
• Freedb service updated (GnuDb)
• Freedb submission service available again (GnuDb)
• Discogs service updated (Cover Art is available again)
• Don’t write Apple iTunes (iTunSMPB) gapless metadata to M4A files by default, can be enabled from the Settings (M4A / MPEG-4 ISO format has native preferred method for gapless playback)
• (Updated Exhale 1.1.4 Extended HE-AAC encoder) (may be available for development purposes)
• (Updated Fraunhofer FDK AAC encoder) (may be available on special request)

Changes in version 9.2.1

• Updated Exhale Extended HE-AAC encoder v1.1.1
  • Improved audio quality of low bitrate modes (~40, ~48, ~64, and ~72 kbit/s)
  • Improved compatibility with some decoders
• Updated DSD encoder
  • Improved DSD encoder precision
  • Fixed AVX2 processor instruction set optimization inaccuracy