dBpoweramp Music Converter 2024.05.30

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 2024-05-30

• Added AccurateRip metadata, a new high quality metadata database to take replace freedb.
  With this update, selected metadata providers are set to a new default.

CD Ripper:

• Manual meta page, handles 5 providers , only shows active providers
• New menu option 'After Metadata Display Review Metadata' to auto show the review page
• Review Perfect Metadata menu item renamed to Review Metadata
• CD-Text is now part of PerfectMeta if enabled (off by default), it will show on metadata review page
• Musicbrainz could stall lookup, now much faster
• Default naming has ” , Disc x” on multi disc in file path and no longer defaults to put ', Disc ' on the end of the album name.
• ID Tags & Metadata Can edit the multi artist detection values
• Multi artist detection also detects with (xxx and [xxx and removes end ) or ]
• ID Tags from providers unicode u2010 is replaced with –
• Wierd unicode spaces are standardized to ' '