dBpoweramp DSP Version Changes

Release 12

Volume Normalize EBU-R128 defaults to -18 dB target volume.
ID Tag Processing, multi-artists etc added with Additions are correctly detected as multiples if separated as '; '
ReplayGain identifies albums also with Disc number.

Release 11

New Effect Lowpass filter (filters all frequencies above specified frequency).
New Effect Dynamic Range Compression
ReplayGain Configuration page redesigned
ReplayGain EBU R128 used by default
ReplayGain EBU R128 defaults to -18 LUFS
ReplayGain New option - iTunes Album Gain
ReplayGain New option - disable clip prevention
ReplayGain New option - identify albums as all tracks in same folder
ReplayGain fix where it would write large RG values for silence.
DirectX Effect added to 64 bit DSPs
Fixed Crash for ReplayGain if conversion was cancelled (in CD Ripper).
Fixed Resample from 192KHz to 88KHz
Bug fix: When applying album again to a very large collection (perhaps quarter of a million tracks), certain albums would be missed

Release 10

Includes 64 & 32 bit installs (auto detected for system)
Effect EBU R128 Volume Normalize Removed (Volume Normalize DSP Effect does the same)
EBU R128 calculation much faster
ID Tag Processing: New external scripting tag option, use VB Scripting to modify tags
Bug Fix: EBU R128 album gain fix
Bug Fix: Fade could cause clipping of signals if used with faulty Grabber effect
Bug Fix: Grabber could report wrong length to following DSP Effects

Release 9

Added option to ReplayGain DSP effect to write iTunNORM tag from generated Replaygain value.
EBU R128 ReplayGain calculation option added (to both Volume Normalize and ReplayGain DSP effects).
Option on Maximum Length to Limit to a % of original length.
ID Tag Manipulation added maximum album art (KB) size option.
ID Tag Manipulation added remove month & day option from year.
ID Tag Manipulation new drop track count and disc count option.
New option to remove empty folders for Delete Source File.
Bug Fix: EBU R128 Volume Normalize fix to gain clipping error limitation.
Bug Fix: EBU R128 Volume Normalize fix crashing on silence tracks or very short tracks
Bug Fix: ID Tag Manipulation: Import Album Art now works for [artist].jpg.
Bug Fix: Resample effect supports resampling from 176400 KHz.

Release 8

New DSP Effect Read Metadata File which imports the metadata for a file from an xml file
New DSP Effect EBUR128 Loudness Normalization
Bug Fix: ID Tag Processing, previously possible for corrupt jpg to crash effect
Bug Fixes: Write Metadata File - Illegal characters are now removed from the XML tag names and a name attribute has been added to make sure that the full ID tag name gets exported
Bug Fix: If resample was used in CD Ripper with the resample rate set to 44.1KHz (doing nothing) then metadata would not be written to the audio tracks
Bug Fix: ID Tag Processing the following used to set album even if ARTIST has no value!

IF ARTIST=[anyvalue]
SET ALBUM=[album] ([tag]ARTIST[])

Release 7

New Effect: Folder.jpg Preserve  to copy folder.jpg or associated files to destination folder
Multi-CPU Force supports 16 CPUs (requires Music Converter R14)
HDCD new option (default on) to apply +6DB amplification (to place the 20bit HDCD result in the upper 24 bits)
New DSP Effect Audio CD - Remove Gaps, requires latest R14 Music Converter

Bug Fix: Capitalization of ID Tags (Smart or forced lower case except first) was getting a multi-composer, etc wrong.
Bug Fix: Resample could crash when converting without changing sample rate
Bug Fix: Write Metadata DSP Effect would give errors if the source was a CD disc

Release 6

Added Dither (Triangular and Rectangle) to Bit Depth DSP Effect
ID Tag Processing 2 new Manipulations: Word / Character replacement and Rule based Tag Manipulation
Run External can now run Batch files
Playlist Writer - new effect added
Resample updated to support 192KHz to 44.1KHz
Fix for Resample going 44.1KHz to 192KHz (was previously giving silence)
Added 88.2KHz to resample
Added New Effect 'Write metadata file' to export metadata to XML / HTML file
Added New Effect 'Insert Audio' to insert an audio track into the stream

Release 5

ID Tag Processing: New option to set maximum album art size
ID Tag Processing: New option to force PNG album art to JPEG (internally)

Bug Fix: Resample would corrupt the audio if converting from and to the same frequencies (ie not resampling)
Bug Fix: Resample could crash if called with Zero Datablock on the end
Bug Fix: ID Tag processing 'Uppercase all first letters' would give What'S the Story

Release 4

New Effect - Move Destination File On Error
New Effect - ReplayGain (Apply)

ID Tag Processing: Export of [artist] - [title], etc
ID Tag Processing: Handling of PNG artwork (ie PNG in tag, exporting to JPG automatically converted)
ID Tag Processing: Can export to .png files
ID Tag Processing: New Option - so can set multi artist to / from artist1; artist2
ID Tag Processing: New Option - to set multi artist to / from 'title (feat. artist2)'

Bug Fix: ReplayGain would not always write Album Gain. Also album gain recognized as 'album artist - album', for better separation of 'Greatest Hits' type albums.

Release 3

New Effect - Audio CD - Silence Track Deletion - removes silence tracks from audio CDs.
New Effect - Audio CD Hidden Track Silence Removal - removes long periods of silence mid track.
New Effect - Multi-CPU Force - forces the use of a certain CPU when encoding (also with CD Ripper)
New Effect - HDCD decoding
New Effect - CPU Throttle - slows down encoding
Run External - option to pass full filename.
Trim Silence - option to trim just digital silence & % value displayed with a decimal point for low dB values.
ID Tag Processing: Import / Export of cover.jpg, filename.jpg, etc
ID Tag Processing: Option - so can set multi artist to artist1; artist2  (and back from artist1; artist2)

Bug Fix: Grabber DSP effect could trigger a 'Lack of disk space error'

Release 2

Replay Gain, if album has multi albums (ie a ; ) then album ReplayGain was not applied also "" has same problem
Bug Fix: Maximum Length & Trim - both could return minus data bytes thus causing problems later (such as message about lack of disk space)