dBpoweramp Music Converter R2023.12.22

dBpoweramp Music Converter

Audio conversion perfected, effortlessly convert between formats. dBpoweramp contains a multitude of audio tools in one: CD Ripper, Music Converter, Batch Converter, ID Tag Editor and Windows audio shell enhancements. Preloaded with essential codecs (mp3, wave, FLAC, m4a, Apple Lossless, AIFF), additional codecs can be installed from [Codec Central], as well as Utility Codecs which perform actions on audio files. After 21 days the trial will end, reverting to dBpoweramp Free edition (learn the difference between Reference and dBpoweramp Free, here). dBpoweramp is compatible with Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, both 32 and 64 bit.

dBpoweramp Music Converter features:

Convert audio files with elegant simplicity. mp3, mp4, m4a (iTunes / iPod), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC) to name a few!
Multi CPU Encoding Support
Rip digitally record audio CDs (with CD Ripper)
Batch Convert large numbers of files with 1 click
Windows Integration popup info tips, audio properties, columns, edit ID-Tags
DSP Effects such as Volume Normalize, or Graphic EQ [Power Pack Option]
Command Line Encoding: invoke the encoder from the command line
DSP Effects - process the audio with Volume Normalize, or Sample / Bit Rate Conversion, with over 30 effects dBpoweramp is a fully featured mp3 Converter
dBpoweramp integrates into Windows Explorer, an mp3 converter that is as simple as right clicking on the source file >> Convert To. Popup info tips, Edit ID-Tags are all provided.

dBpoweramp CD Ripper

dBpoweramp Music Converter R2023.12.22 changelog:

dbpoweramp can now also decode: Tom's Audio Kompressor (.tak), Shorten (.shn), AC-3 (.ac3), E-AC-3 (.eac3), Matroska Audio (.mka)
Web Audio (.weba), TwinVQ (.vqf), DTS (.dts), DTS-HD (.dtshd), The True Audio (.tta), MLP (.mlp), MPEG-TS (.ts), Real Audio (.ra, .rm),
Creative Voice (.voc), AU/SND (.au, .snd), 3GPP (.3gp), AMR (.amr), AMR (.awb),
Speex updated to 1.2.1 (decoder)
Monkeys Audio updated to 10.37
Wavpack supports older v3 files
Discogs - composer added from Discogs
Windows 11 - removed old convert to and edit id tags shell menus
Write/Read XML DSP Effect - multi artist/composer etc compatible
Tag Editor - the delete [x] button for album art is closer to the art, makes easier on large displays
DSD can read tags from DSD1024
DSD256 DOP support (decoder)
Able to decode all M4A/MP4 codecs.
Test Conversion: Report an error if no audio was decoded.
Prevented blank ID3v2 tags from being written in some scenarios.
WAV: Change tag type if asked to save ReplayGain and existing tags can't hold ReplayGain.
Musepack: implemented ReplayGain info saving for Musepack SV8 files.

Bug Fixes

VST regression
.aac file with an id3v2 would not always decode correctly
.aac tag writing
Could have two windows 11 shell items
Audio properties not passed through to encoder/dsp, seen more in Write XML DSP Effect
MP3: Do not falsely report files with VBR headers (or VBRI) as gapless if they have no actual gapless info
Some Ogg FLAC files not being decoded correctly
Vorbis + Opus: Fixed channel order & missing channel masks for >2 channel content
Speex bug fix
m4a aac gapless decoding improvements
DSD1024 decoding failures.
dsf files being decoded with extra padding at the end.
Fixed incorrect decoding and encoding of AIFF 8-bit.
Fixed specific rare Monkey's Audio files being decoded incorrectly.
Fixed HE-AAC not being decoded gaplessly.