Software Update: dBpoweramp Music Converter 2024.05.01 – Computer – Downloads

Illustrate has released a new version of dBpoweramp Music Converter. This audio editing program can rip audio CDs and convert music files to and from MP3, M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkey’s Audio, Flac and Alac, among others, while retaining tags. Furthermore, the MP3 tags can be customized and the program fully integrates into Windows Explorer, making it easy to invoke. The basic version, for ripping CDs and converting files, is free. Additional functionality must be paid for. The program is available for Windows and macOS. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Release 2024-05-01

• CD Ripper: we have restored freedb.dbpoweramp.com as a replacement for gnudb (which took-over from freedb.org), why? gnudb.org have started requiring emails to access their system. We do not agree with this type of intrusive data collection to access a publicly created database. It goes against the ethos of running a public database, especially as dBpoweramp users would have submitted a very significant percentage of all discs in that database. Going forward we will create a new community populated metadata database, it will be branded as part of the AccurateRip family, and will be open to all. AccurateRip has existed without restrictions for almost 20 years, together we will create a high quality database. Watch this space…
• Tag Editor: pressing enter when editing a tag value will accept changes, pressing enter again will close tag editor page
• Replaygain DSP detects when encoding lossy, will calculate RG values ​​by decoding the lossy encoded file after encoded
• Bug Fix: CD Ripper: if a track required re-ripping of bad frames, then AccurateRip cross checking of pressings for that one track would fail
• CD Ripper: log is now in order of tracks