dBpoweramp Music Converter R2025.04.17

dBpoweramp is a collection of fully integrated audio software from Illustrate, written by Spoon. The main dBpoweramp product is dBpoweramp Music Converter, with many additional add-ons available. dBpoweramp CD Ripper is the corner stone of dBpoweramp Music Converter's suite of audio tools, designed to meet the needs of hobbyists, enthusiasts or audio professionals. Key features include PerfectMeta, AccurateRip, Secure Ripping, Multi-CPU Encoding.

No other audio program converts more multi-format audio files than dBpoweramp, illustrate's range of audio applications are the benchmark in their respective fields, with over 15 years of expertise perfecting CD Ripping & Audio Conversion. Audio conversion perfected, effortlessly convert between formats. dBpoweramp Music Converter has become 'the standard' tool for audio conversions. dBpoweramp CD Ripper is for those who take ripping seriously, dBpoweramp CD Ripper rips Audio CDs fast and bitperfect. PerfectMeta uses 4 providers: AMG, GD3, MusicBrainz and freedb simultaneously, has high resolution Album Art and extended fields. AccurateRip compares the results of CD rips with a database of CD rips by other users to see if the rip is accurate. Secure Ripping utilizes AccurateRip and CD ripping algorithms to accurately and securely rip audio CDs.

Changes in R2025.04.17:

Apple Lossless encoder added 32 bit support
Apple Lossless decoder was not channel mapping correctly for > 2 channels
flac updated to 1.5.0
CD Ripper - preview track skip next was not working
CD Ripper - bug fix = manual metadata search for a musicbrainz URL could crash
CD Ripper - if want to run two CD Rippers with different drives selected and different naming strings, etc, it is possible now through the use of profiles, loadCD Ripper, create a profile and change settings based on that profile. Load 2nd CD Ripper and create a new profile for that CD Ripper and change settings (such as naming) for that CD Ripper.
CD Ripper - musicbrainz manual release lookup (from clipboard url), significant speed increase in multi CD lookups, includes also release title if present in album title and shows CD number in list of results.
New dBpoweramp Control Centre >> Advanced 'Stored Naming Strings' Prune dialog, to prune naming strings stored.
New dBpoweramp Control Centre >> Advanced new options 'Import / Export dBpoweramp Settings' all settings and configuration changes can be backed up, for transfer to a new machine. [windows 10+]
Bug Fix: converting a file with a unhandled image format for album art could lead to Chinese characters showing in log
Tag Editing from Shell now has 'dBpoweramp' and an icon on the taskbar [windows]