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Release 12.4
Popup info tips, also written to additional registry
key to make sure no other program would override
mp3: Album Art handling improvement (handles art description field)
update checker - if program is registered then point to registration
retrieval page not dmc download.
CD Ripper - secure mode defaults to a 1 MB cache
CD Ripper - AMG - album art defaults to 250x250
CD Ripper: New AccurateRip - no limit to submission size, no email
submission, no messages if disc not in database
Bug Fixes
Right click >> Edit Tags in Windows x64 works again
CD Ripper - If you have all the tracks on the CD highlighted (i.e
CTRL-A) and click the mouse anywhere in the rating column the program
will crash.
If use UPPERCASE for naming for a string which has ',' then would set ,
to <CoMMA_>
Release 12.3
CD Ripper
Compilation tag (also used in naming) taken from compilation check, not by
checking for differing artists
When create a new profile offers to use the current one as template
Compilation, conductor & style tags created by default
All meta data items are shown in meta section, excluded (for id tags)
are shown in light gray
All meta data items list shows [x] instead of [Remove]
If the option to disable autoplay is enabled, then every second the
status of the CD drive is polled, to autorefresh when CD is inserted,
auto press eject button when CD draw is open, also stops windows
autoplaying the CD when closing CD ripper
Pressing the eject button when the draw is open, closes it
Auto eject CD should function more reliably
Win98 the convert window cli from CD ripper, or music converter was not
closing after rip, plus was shown
Edit id tag (from right click >> edit tag) no longer locks explorer
window whilst editing
Edit id tag displays common id elements blank if a track has no tags
Edit id tag - remembers the last position of the window + if window is
large enough (starting from last time only), the elements have extra
room to show
Naming added [length_mmss], [length_hhmmss], [composer] & [conductor]
Reference: Pro Frequency Conversion enabled by default
All programs: if running in debug mode, the debugging information will
show even if program crashes
Music Converter: No longer creates ARTIST id tags for naming if one does
not exist (TITLE is created from filename if does not exist)
Audio Properties page: Visually more smarter
Wave decoder - if a wave file is PCM then does not use the fact chunk
(could be wrong)
Bug Fixes
CD Ripper - if using the abort after 1 unrecoverable
then is marking the track as secure i, not insecure
Windows 98 + ME: have weak bitmap drawing routines, even Internet
explorer 5 can crash when drawing, R12 uses advanced drawing techniques
and Windows 98 is just falling over, for Windows 98 + ME we replace the
graphical buttons with standard buttons. Also applies to the % complete
bar
Windows 98 + ME: core converter would wait around (at 99%) after a
conversion (when source was pipe, ie from CD Ripper)
If wave encoder supplied last buffer as NULL and using frequency / ACM
converter then last block might not be flushed
CD Ripper - selecting a profile with the same encoder as last profile
was not loading the settings for new profile encoder
Music converter, finish button was not showing if window was minimized
Release 12.2
Reading / Writing (reference only) of wave BEXT ID Tags, bext tags are:
Description, Originator, OrigReference, OrigDate, OrigTime,
TimeReference, CodingHistory
Vista: Popup info lines up better aligned
Tag Editor (shell right click): Standard items are listed first, others
alphabetically sorted, when adding new tag is a drop list of standard
names
Tag Editor: helper drop lists for year, track number + genre (remembers
unique genres, saved in appdata)
Popup info shows track number as "Track" in line with rest of programs
Switched Lame to NASM encoding, slightly slower, but more crash
resistant (tried on > 1GB of audio)
.mpeg added to decodable file types
If encoding only one file, then multi cpu section is not created (so is
not tied to a single cpu)
CD Ripper title bar shows album name when ripping
CD Ripper submission of meta data back to freedb and AMG
Bug Fixes
Corrupt id3v2 tags could crash tag writer, will now break without
overwriting corrupt id tag
Corrupt wave list id tag would stop the wave file from being decoded,
now tag error is reported as info so wave file can decode
Corrupt wave list id tag can be read if they have unofficial end padding
in the list chunk
Folders can contain a space ' ' as first character
Filenames ending in .. are preserved
CD Ripper would show amg expired message even if unchecked (and had
expired)
When auto completing a valuelist combo box, the auto complete was being
removed
mp3 (Lame) might not encode the last frame depending on feeding data
When encoding using non live dsp effects, the action is shown in music
converter
Can encode to certain wave ACM formats which would previously fail
All codecs - sample rate of high frequency audio files might be read
wrong
When using DSP effects (both live and non-live, and 32 bit float + high
sample rate) the effects could introduce white noise every 1/4 of a
second
CoreConverter if overwriting an already existing filename of maximum
allowed length (260 chars) then .tmp.ext temp file would go over the
allowed 260 char length
Music Converter, if existing audio file had a 3 char extension (ie
.ape), and converted to .flac, was possible for flac file to have more
than the allowed 260 chars length
Further fixes to make sure dMC + CD Ripper + Batch Converter appear on
screen, even after resolution changes
Release 12.1
CD Ripper - when add meta item, has drop list of artist, album etc
CD Ripper - if no artist name then for file naming only is set to
'Unknown Artist'
CD Ripper - can access meta menu drop down evenif no cd is in drive
CD Ripper - Genre, Composer, Comment columns always show (even if not a
compilation)
Music Converter - remembers the last used path when selecting files
Mp3 lame shows -vbr-new on the info line
Bug Fixes
Mp3 Lame Encoder: Forcing Frequency or Channels (on advanced) can crash
CoreConverter
If getpopupinfo froze (corrupt audio file, would incorrectly report
getpopup.exe could not be found)
If using non-live dsp effects which altered the length, other live DSPs
were being passed old length
CoreConverter could trigger a 'watchdog timeout possible coreconverter
crash' if using the CLI encoder or DSP effect which took more than 60
seconds (temp wave files used in both cases)
Any valuelist when editing an element (example meta in cd ripper) if
click away on same line (ie not enter) then the edit stays for edit!!
Wave Enocder was not writing IEEE float if source as float and bit=as
source (only forcing float would write)
If manually set a file association then RC >> 'Convert To' and other
shell related items would not appear
If dBpoweramp batch converter had been added to folder right click, it
was not removed when uninstalling
Was lucky to have a CD drive which when asked to overread would return
No Error, but really not rip (so the data from a previous frame rip
could be used, now zeros the memory to be sure)
CD Ripper - was possible for at the end of a cd the ripper to try to rip
0 frames and report an error
CD Ripper - if previewing a track and skip to next then could crash
CD Ripper - if re-ripping a cd, then click cancel half way through the
CRCs (shown on screen) for the tracks that were to be ripped are not
preserved (so no green / red next rip)
Changing (Naming, or Path in CD Ripper) to My Documents\Music1 would
save to Documents\Music\1 instead
dMC - When using List / Rename was showing extension, if renamed file
then would add another extension to end
Was offering a Power Pack Trial when installing registered Power Pack
If using a non-live DSP effect, they are now used in correct order
(previously would do non-live, then live effects in that order)
If using DSP effects to reduce bitdepth or channels, then might
incorrectly report 'Audio data contains incomplete samples'
Fixed edit tag crashing explorer
Internal low level Thread manager could create with an already used
unique identification, which could cause crashes (found with Channel
Splitter which creates 9x coreconverters)
mp3 Tag writer would crash if supplied CD TOC (a binary item) which was
text instead of binary
Dynamic Naming (or naming in CD Writer) could enter a recursive
condition, if Adding an album 'Example Album [Album]' when naming
contained [album]
Was possible for dMC Converting Window to go off-screen
If using the Grabber 10 seconds from CD Ripper then freezes cd ripper at
5%
Release 12
Complete rewrite, new design, every
aspect updated & improved. Full Unicode support, Windows 98 to Vista
support.
Rather than a line by line change,
which would stretch to 10000's of lines (as with previous releases) an
overview:
CD Ripper - Secure Ripper, c2 support
(reference), AMG meta data with Album art & rating, ultra secure ripping
mode (reference).
All Codecs updated to latest versions,
all improved.
Multi-CPU encoder support (reference).
New Batch Converter, new scripting
engine, new Reference version,
New DSP design allows for live effects,
Release 11.5
First run a configuration wizard
is shown, dMC Configuration redesigned.
DSP Silence removal - can now
specify lower -db values (a 0.1 percentage number) which might
be needed for early cd releases (with wide dynamic range)
mp3 decoder was requiring msvcrtp60.dll - now compiled static
mp3 decoder huge update: rewritten, now can read (once more)
freeform mp3 files, mp2+mp1 files.
mp3 decoder now reads lame tag and shows compression type used
mp3 decoder better bitrate calculation for non-vbr header files
mp3 decoder options in dMC Configuration: Ignore CRC errors +
output as (16, 24, 32 bit)
mp3 lame compression, if > 16 bit or 8 bit then transforms to 16
bit. If > 2 channels then lower to 2 channels in the compressor
- shouldn't now be possible to get an error mp3 encoding about
not opening compressor
Smart install WMA 9 updated to 9.1
XP & 2000 - if have no admin rights then ripping method 'Windows
Internal' is selected automatically
Music Converter will self detect decoded buffer overrun (if a
bug in decoding codec)
Music Converter will self detect data not block aligned (if a
bug in decoding codec)
dmc - when setting priority to above average, only warns if
ripping a CD (not for normal conversion)
dmc - if clear dsp is checked then next time go onto dsp page is
unchecked
Wave Compression - option to write WaveformatExtensible (only
for more than 16 bits, or 2 channels) older programs couldn't
read WFXEX
CD Input - ASPI was set as default if installed, Direct SCSI
Pass is better and used instead
CD Input - when previewing a track, shows track playing in bold
with a |> icon
CD Input - 3rd Artist column extended length of screen
CD Input - when editing a track title (F2) does not show old
text under (looked scruffy)
CD Input - Can set [- minus] compilation number & more than 99
CD Input - When select a compression codec (rip to menu) it auto
shows the compression settings page
CD Input - toc detection only work for 1 rip then is auto off
CD Input - redesigned freedb options page, added proxy auto
detect button, first run of dmc config will autodetect proxy
CD Input - when 2nd instance starts the first tries to set focus
(will flash in xp)
CD Input - freedb proto6 compatible (utf-8) - will have to wait
for dmc R12 for full unicode compatible (currently will convert
to current code page)
CD Input - if using Power Pack option 'Auto Rip' will not
autorip if cd is not found in cddb
CD Input - added better detection of damaged audio cds
Aux Input: Sound recording volume meter opened with full windows
path
dMC Configuration redesigned - added a copy to clipboard
[version info and installed codecs], split encoder and decoder
list new Options and Tag Options tab
Two new Explorer columns added: Album - Track Number
and Artist - Album - Track Number allowing
sorting of albums in Explorer!, other items no longer -Artist-
but ' Artist '
dMC Scripting rewritten, new values to set codec settings (see
updated developer scripting page after r11.5 full release)
Bug Fixes
Files which contains id3v1 + ape2
tags (but tag info was not in both, ie artist just id3v1, then
artist was not being read)
Data was being lost converting small length samples 750ms from
11KHz to 44KHz with wave
CD Input >> options: couldn't change Rip to path, or File
Arrangement on first try, also Rip to Path limited characters
could type.
dmc - shutdown option from Power Pack page not used correctly
if play a sound in dmc is on and skip finished is checked, sound
was never played
Adaptive Normalize bug that could jumble up an audio file (bits
at the end in the middle)
A corrupt audio cd could crash CD ripping (non rip to ram)
Wave - certain PCM waves incorrectly have CBextra !=0 (which was
causing problems later)
cd input - select last track (edit track name) then straight
away click artist - the last track looses focus and typing the
artist sets for all tracks
mp3 decoder was not working on mp2 decoding
When calling getpopupinfo.exe (is separate so if audoi file
reading crashes it crashes getpopup not the shell!), if selected
a ram drive it would call getupupinfo indefinitely, now caches
last
Rip to Ram was taking cpu cycles when shouldn't have, now more
efficient (now when ripping to wave on mine cpu is 10% usage)
Unicode popup info in Explorer had problems
Explorer columns now displays unicode characters (R12 will be
required to read from filenames containing unicode letters)
Release 11.1
Bug Fix: CD Input >> options:
couldn't change Rip to path, or File Arrangement on first try,
also Rip to Path limited characters could type.
Release 11
Significant changes:
Auxiliary Input and File Selector included as standard. Higher
quality mp3 decoder, Lame 3.96.1 encoder. Wave IEEE 32 bit
support, dbpoweramp can supply column information in Windows
Explorer (much more refined than Windows standard audio columns) ,
Unicode tagging transfers, Power Pack trial included as standard
and mp3 encoder License on power pack trial. Smart install Codecs
and New DSP effects (Graphic Equalizer, dithering down bit depth).
New Mp3 input decoder - mp3 MAD
dMC can add entries to Windows Explorer Columns
CD Input - copy track names to clipboard no longer requires powerpack
M3u & pls playlist popup info - now displays total length for playlist even if is > 50 entries
Added 'Tagging Options' on dMC Configuration - for updated codecs
Added unicode tagging transfer abilities (for updated codecs), for R11 characters can only be entered as compatible with current user codepage.
Popup info will display unicode of tags correctly (for updated codecs)
Open file dialog, file types drop list is alphabetic sorted
Configuration Page - sorts the codecs alphabetically on the config page
Power Pack included in default install
Bad News: Mp3 encoder is now on a License & trial with Power Pack,
Good News: Aux Input and File Selector now standard
mp3 Encoder is new Lame 3.96.1
Default install switches Power Pack options 'skip finish' and Rip to Ram on
CD Input - if autodial is on then first try to talk to freedb - if cannot then autodials
CD Input - on file arrangement form - if a fixed text is entered - ie 'bob-knob' then complain it should be '[artist]...'
Freedb Smart formatting - if have 'Feat. Bob' was changed to 'FeaT. Bob'
Codecs (such as WMA, Ogg, Monkeys, FLAC) are always present in dMC, selecting offers to install said codec
Scripting: if user cancel then added to log file (getwaserror will return true)
Scripting: WMA Settings removed (can no longer access them for WMA v9), Wave settings now work again, Mp3 blade setting removed
Configuration page changed slightly (show if dAP is installed)
If select a high priority then warnings are given about slowing CD ripping, or making windows unresponsive
file selector: 'keep path when convert' checked state is remembered
file selector: remembers files excluded
file selector: added uncheck button to remove all selections
file selector: added date modified column
file selector: warns in dMC if 'keep path' option and 'original folder' in dmc are used together
DSP - All DSP effects are 24 + 32 bit compatible, plus many have speed improvements
DSP - Add silence - option to add at beginning of track
DSP - added new to 24 bit, 16 bit dither, 8 bit dither
DSP added Graphic Equalizer dsp - say in help need is best to lower other bars than increase otherwise will clip, or for best - run to 24 bit dSP, volume quieten (say 10%), graphic EQ, then to 16 bit (dither)
DSP - Volume Quieten - say in help that should now use volume normlize to reduce a loudness (based on normalize)
DSP - new looper dsp (loop xTimes or loop to a certain length)
DSP - channel move revamped - can downsample or upsample number of channels (with various channel combining options) and move any channel to any other
DSP - adaptive normalize big speed increases
Wave - support for IEEE 32 bit float decoding
Bug Fixes
DSP - remove silence could mixup channels (ie left channel to right)
DSP - adaptive volume normalize - fixed freeze if had large silence in file
Sorted out CD Eject (should no longer suck drive draw back in after eject)
Can display version numbers for Input DLLs
Put catch exception trapping on tag tranfers
mp3 (lame) added specific error about trying to change the frequency if compression codec could not be opened.
mp3 (lame) writes lame header for CBR files (and xing vbr header)
mp3 lame: vbr header was not being written to certain presets
mp3 XIng VBR Header, searched more in file
mp3 XIng VBR Header length calculation now takes off header
mp3 parser, huge speed increases
Open file dialog was adding .SHUTDOWN (from dAP), causes windows not to display files
Memory leak when compressing the Wave ACM
Crash when file could not be opened (later in converter)
TCPConnection Socket (freedb) upgraded to fix connection issues
Rip as one - whole CD to Wave - it was getting the PC way wrong!!
Scripting: retrieving the error log list would only return 1st line
When converting huge number, the 2nd line says 'calculating size' but the top line is some funny characters
Aux Input (or CD Input) could still have the 'Delete Source File(s)' option checked (obviously it cannot do this)
All programs - buttons could disappear if a sub dialog was opened
Release 10.1
Bug fix - AccurateRip: end
calculation length (also requires new accuraterip.dll)
Bug fix - Freedb submission fix for CD-Extra discs
Bug fix - CD Input bug fix - will not display Compression settings for Sveta Devices
Release 10
Significant changes: Over a
year in the making & testing, Release 10 offers: AccurateRip
compatible, Large Fonts Compatible, Unicode 8 compatible,
integration between dBpoweramp Audio Player and Audio CD Input,
smart on demand install of Codecs, 24 Bit compatible, [as source]
option for frequencies and bits, Convert To menu replaced with
selection box on next options page (quicker), customizable
explorer popup information.
Large Fonts Compatible
Includes a 'Test Conversion (no write)' compression option
dMC Configuration - shows Sveta Device drivers installed
dMC Configuration - new ID3 Tag option of APE2
Rip to Ram page now removed, it shows the speed and status on the action line
Mp3 popup info now displays id3v1/2 version number (ie ID3v2.2)
Mp3 is now Unicode8 compatible (Windows NT/2000/XP only)
Mp3 Compression [as source] option for frequency and channels
Displays version number of CD Writer (beta 3 onwards)
Added special code required for CD Writer conversions
CD Input - Drive Offset replaced by Drive Sample Offset...for AccurateRip
CD Input - AccurateRip written, 100% accurately ripped CDs.
CD Input - New Icon
CD Input - Previous used folders (output to and File Creation) saved in Options
CD Input - When converting CD to Portable the options page is always shown (needed for Nomads)
CD Input - Freedb Server page access on freedb drop down menu
CD Input - Power Pack when playing active track is selected
CD Input - Power Pack when playing inserting another device into the system does not mess up any check marks
CD Input - only 1 instance can be started at once
CD Input - Power Pack when preview a CD dAP playback is paused, on Rip dap is unpaused
CD Input - if using the option 'Add to dAP MMC' then the tracks are highlighted in light blue if they are already in dAP
CD Input - if playing CD in dap, or CD is enqueued, then is skipped + removed from enqueue when ripping
CD Input - Rip Menu has 'Add New Codecs' option
CD Input - Power Pack - On dMC Overwrite page, now a 'No to All', also possible to select multiple items to uncheck
CD Input - can now set on options: write tags, add to dap, as well as Power Pack short cuts to dMC Power Pack and dMC DSP effects
CD Input - better protected (read damaged) CD TOC detection - options menu >> damaged CD >> TOC Detection #1
CD Input - Can add custom Genres, just type it and it is remembered.
CD Input - freedb - works with an IP number
CD Input - freedb - if connection does not work, 2 known good ones are tried
CD Input - Enhanced keycontrols (ie play skip) control CD input when has focus (power pack)
CD Input - freedb - saves track names locally before submit (incase it locks up)
CD Input - Added CD Text reading (Options >> Advanced), only works on MMC command set
Wave - Compatible with WaveFORMATExtensible wave files, rewritten to support 24 bit & high frequency
multi-channel creation & reading.
Wave - New 24 Bit output for Wave Compression
Wave - writes PCM wave files without WAVEFORMATEX extra two bytes (if anything to stop all the emails your output is different to EAC or
Winamp)
dMC - New Value List for Configuration and Edit tag
dMC - Convert To Menu replaced with all conversion options on music converter page
dMC - 2nd dmc is not launched when adding files to convert, files are added to existing
dMC - Power Pack, when setting priority for certain levels the Process Priority level is set
dMC - no longer shows finish message when converting in Sveta Portable Audio, or Audio CD Writer
dMC - Converting page - remembers last position, or minimized state.
dMC - Power Pack - so can do a run before conversion of each file, or after pass filenames on
command line: [InFile] [OutFile] - [InFileShort] [OutFileShort]
dMC - Certain Power Pack options are saved per Codec (on Power Pack button - below the line)
dMC - Shows the real time compression speed
dMC - Power Pack DSP - added an option 'Clear All DSP Effects after this conversion' - if
\dBpoweramp\DSPEffects\default.dds exists (DSP Saved) then it is loaded
dMC - Power Pack - added shutdown options 'hibernate, suspend and shutdown
atx', as well as a one time shutdown that
can be selected from the 'Priority' box whilst converting
dMC - Smart Install of Certain codecs
added configurable popup file information, to customize run:
regedit.exe, browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Illustrate\dBpoweramp create a String Value called
dBPopup, the default value is: File :[tab][tab][justfileName][ret]Location
:[tab][path][ret]Type :[tab][tab][description][ret]Extension : [tab][ext][ret]Length
(m:ss) :[tab][length][ret]Size :[tab][tab][size][ret]Original Size
:[tab][origsize][ret]Compression Ratio :[tab][ratio][ret][ret][audioinfo][taginfo][ret]______________________[ret] dBpoweramp
Bug Fixes
Windows 95 was not adding 'Edit Tag' on right click
Mp3 (Lame) encoder not setting up ABR encodings correctly
Mp3 (Lame) encoder now produces -alt preset files identical to lame.exe
dMC - Professional Frequency Conversion was always on for Wave conversions, even if option was switched off in config
dMC - fixed a slow down when conversion starts
dMC - any pathnames over 260 are shortened
dMC - 'add to dap' option is not used for .IGNORE file types
dMC - Scans and removes any spaces in folder names at end - ie \A Folder \
dMC - when writing to a portable player the sending percentage does not stay for next conversion
When saving tags, read only files are set to writable
Buffer overflow was occurring for Track names longer than 100 characters
mp3 could return a Track Number of 0 in certain circumstances
mp3 tagging, fixed crash for ID3v2 on Xfer tag info
Does not create blank Folders for Test write or other write formats such as Audio CD
If no file was written (ie an error) then source files are not deleted (error was only for
CLI)
Writes tags for special non-conversion codecs
CD Input - Various artist CDs, when use keyboard to select next track it was not setting the right artist at top
CD Input - If Eject CD option then shouldnt suck in the disc straight after eject anymore
CD Input - if editing the title and click convert, the edited value is now saved
CD Input - Smart Freedb Formatting, for compilations such as 'Madonna / oh father' the oh was not being capitalized
CD Input - if do not edit a track name and press enter then still go to edit next track
CD Input - compilation offset number reset to 0 on a new disc insert or refresh
CD Input - Getting Multi Artists from CDPlayer / Registry Cache
Mp3 decoder - now gets the right track lengths for difficult samples (large metadata,
vbr)
Wave - could crash if converting and couldn't open output file
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