EZ CD Audio Converter - Version history

13.2.1

Updated LAME MP3 encoder 4.0 (with the CBR/ABR quality patch applied)
Significantly improved Discogs metadata parsing for malformed, multi-disc, and multi-language releases, artist name variations/disambiguation, join phrases, CDr searches, and broad release-format compatibility
Fixed the tab order of output format controls (regression from previous release)
Fixed FLAC decoder missing from MPEG-4 ISO FF (M4A, MP4) demuxer config (regression from previous release)

13.2

Improved Output Format (Encoder) selection list
Improved Discogs metadata parsing with advanced support for complex releases and multi-disc formats
Added Fraunhofer FDK xHE-AAC encoder
FFmpeg 9.0.1 Codec update
- FFmpeg decoder update (for various media formats)
- AC-3 encoder update
- DTS encoder update
- E-AC-3 encoder update
- TrueHD encoder update
All encoders, decoders and metadata handlers recompiled and optimized
App file sizes and memory footprint significantly reduced
Bugfix: Help link corrected
Bugfix: Deleting album art in metadata window resulted icon error in main window
Bugfix: Microsoft Store: slated icon fixed

13.1

Loudness Normalization
- Added new EBU R 128 “Top of Loudness Range” normalization mode
  This mode adjusts audio based on the louder parts of the track instead of using the overall average loudness
- Added a Peak Limit setting for Loudness Normalization
  Limit from 0.0 to -6.0 dB using either:
  - Sample Peak [dB FS]: Limits the highest digital sample level
  - True Peak [dB TP]: Estimates and limits peaks that may occur between samples
- Added new options for EBU R 128 / ReplayGain calculation:
  - Loudness algorithm
    - Integrated [I]: uses the overall average loudness
    - Top of Loudness Range [ToLR]: focuses on the louder sections of the audio
  - Peak mode
    - Sample Peak [dB FS]: uses the highest digital sample
    - True Peak [dB TP]: estimates inter-sample peaks for more accurate peak detection

Discogs Improvements
- Improved Discogs search accuracy
- Artist names now ignore disambiguation numbers in parentheses For example, “Artist (2)” is treated as “Artist”
- Improved track list parsing:
  - Headings are now skipped correctly
  - Bonus track entries are handled more reliably

Window and Layout Settings
- Added an option to save the Audio Converter window position
- Added an option to save the CD Ripper window position
- Added an option to save the File Explorer column layout

Integrated File Explorer
- Updated the integrated File Explorer components

Installer
- Added an option to launch the app automatically after installation

Languages
- Updated the English language template
- Updated all 35 language files

13.0.4

Helix MP3 Encoder CBR Stereo "Auto" sample rate fixed
(was previously errored out if the source sample rate did not match a supported MP3 sample rate, e.g. > 48 kHz)
(The encoder was missing CBR Stereo configurations by mistake)
Filename templates: Second set of <> (to remove tag if its value is nil) now works with CUSTOM metadata tags
'Output Format' drop-down list (the encoder list) now resizes the list automatically (with scroll bars) if the entire list does not fit within the screen height (e.g. with high DPI scaling like 150%)

13.0.3

Fixed PCM to DSD encoder Auto sample rates (DFF, DSF, WavPack DSD)
Updated German language

13.0.2

Improved the new improved Discogs metadata search
- Fixed multiartist 'Album Artist' and 'Track Artist' metadata
- Improved 'Various' compilation album search

13.0.1

Fixed metadata search Access Violation error that occured if DPI scaling was not 96 DPI / 100 %
Fixed Vorbis aoTuV & reference encoders crash

13.0

New toolbar icons (4k / 192 DPI / 200%)
Added Helix MP3 Encoder 5.2.4
Added Ogg Vorbis aoTuV encoder
Updated Opus 1.6.1
Updated Monkey's Audio [APE] 12.50
Updated Exhale Extended HE-AAC Encoder v1.2.2
Updated WavPack 5.9.0
Updated FFmpeg 8.0.1
Added Deezer metadata service
New improved Discogs metadata search
Added iTunes album art source
Added Deezer album art source
Removed WMP metadata service because Microsoft shut down the service
FLAC: Don't fail metadata write if album art is over FLAC metadata block size limit (>16MB)
Fixed a stupid programmer's mistake bug in WavPack decoder seek (CUE+WV output was bad due wrong seek positions)
CUE: files allow first track begin from file offset other than 00:00:00
CUE: allow and correct invalid time offsets (MM:SS:FF, FF = frame > 74), (MM:SS:ss, MM:SS:sss) e.g. 00:00:88 or 00:00:748 (Convert ss to FF)
Support for 32-bit (x86) has been ended
Support for Windows 7/8/8.1 has been ended, Windows 10 or later is now required
Removed UCRT (Universal C Runtime) from the installer, it is included as a core operating system component in Windows 10 and later
Retired support for legacy Windows ACM (Audio Compression Manager)
Updated German language
Updated Korean language
Updated Slovak language
Updated Brazilian Portuguese language
Updated Portuguese language

12.4

Sample Rate Converter (SoX) update
- Improved audio quality
- Improved gapless playback of the resampled signal
- Added pre-extrapolation and post-extrapolation to avoid clicks between track transitions of the resampled signal, also applies to DSD -> PCM conversions
- See: https://src.hydrogenaudio.org/compareresults?id1=409c42e5-945d-42b5-9777-b283609933d4&id2=0
Updated Romanian language

12.3.4

Integrated File Explorer correctly updates when an external drive is added or removed
Fixed AC-3 bit rate configurations
Fixed a bug in MPEG-4 ISO FF DASH (streaming m4a/mp4 format) format metadata update (*may* have previously failed)
Updated French language
Updated Italian language
Updated Korean language
Updated Russian language
Updated Slovak language
Updated Spanish language

12.3.3

Improved multi-language text fields of audio conversion status window
Improved multi-language text fields of Internet metadata retrieval window
Updated German language
Updated Korean 2 language

12.3.2

Fixed progress bars in Loudness Scanner window
Fixed CPU & Average CPU display
Updated Portuguese (Brazilian) language
Updated Portuguese (European) language
Updated Spanish language

12.3.1

Improved GUI scaling
Updated Bulgarian language
Updated Dutch language
Updated Italian language
Updated Swedish language
Updated Turkish language

12.3

Updated LAME MP3 encoder v3.101
- Significantly improved audio quality with CBR & ABR encoding modes
- Added quality level options (Best, High, Default, Medium, Fast)
- Fixed "noise_shaping_amp" bug (https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/516/)
CD Ripper: Updated device I/O layer
- If the drive gets disconnected (e.g. external USB drive), it will be automatically re-enabled when the connection is re-established
Updated Audio Converter's Single File output mode
- Show status per decoded file
- Fixed: Cancelling conversion process sometimes did not deinitialize correctly but left the newly created output file open
Updated Audio Converter's status window
- Optionally show decoder output and encoder input audio formats
Updated Exhale Extended HE-AAC Encoder v1.2.2
- Audio quality improvements
- New CVBR modes > 192 kbit/s, up to 384 kbit/s
- Reconfigured eSBR modes
Added <Date> to filename templates (uses whole Year/Date metadata such as '2025-10-02')
Fixed a bug where DSD 'Auto' would select wrong DSD format when going thru DXD (DSP applied or channel configuration changed)
Metadata Editor's multi-line tag text field can be resized
Updated Ogg Vorbis decoder
- Can decode corrupt Ogg Vorbis file with invalid header
Updated Ogg Vorbis metadata handler
- Can accept corrupt Ogg Vorbis file with invalid header
- Fixed: backup file was not always restored when metadata writing failed
Updated English language file template
Updated Finnish language
Updated Czech language
Updated Romanian language
Updated Korean language
Updated French language

12.2

Fraunhofer xHE-AAC encoder 4.5.7 Codec Update
- Improved audio quality
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
Fraunhofer AAC-LC/HE-AAC (v2) encoder 4.5.7 Codec Update
- Improved audio quality
- New AAC-LC 5.1 VBR modes 3-6 (240 - 640 kbit/s)
- Bug fixes and code stability improvements
FLAC codec update
- 768 kHz [ Ultra HD ]
- Updated LibOgg 1.3.6
- Possible performance improvements with some CPUs (updated processor optimizations)
Improved audio quality
- Sample Rate Converter now allows max passband 99.7% [ Ultra HD ]
- Improved sample rate conversion accuracy of 32-bit floating point samples
Monkey's Audio [APE] 11.38 Codec Update
- Performance improvements
- General stability improvements
FFmpeg 8.0 Codec Update
- Significantly improved encoding & decoding performance (new processor optimizations)
- FFMPEG decoder update (for various media formats)
- AC-3 encoder update
- DTS encoder update
- E-AC-3 encoder update
- TrueHD encoder update
SACD ISO DSD extraction update
- Extract total track lengths including pauses (previously extracted SACD/Track_List_1 specified length)
- Seamless playback without a click or a pop between track transitions
Opus Codec Update
- Updated LibOgg 1.3.6
Vorbis Codec Update
- Updated LibOgg 1.3.6
Updated Korean language
Updated Danish language

12.1

FLAC Codec update
- FLAC reference 1.5.0 re-optimized
- Significantly improved encoding and decoding performance
FFMPEG 7.1 Codec Update
- FFMPEG decoder update (for various media formats)
- AC-3 encoder update
- DTS encoder update
- E-AC-3 encoder update
- TrueHD encoder update
Monkey's Audio 11.02 [ APE ]
- Multithreaded encoding
MP3 Decoder update
- 64-bit decoding algorithm accuracy
- Significantly improved performance
All other Audio Codecs
- General improvements in encoding and decoding performance thanks (new processor optimizations)
Integrated Windows Explorer components update
- ShellTree: A possible application freeze when loading a folder item for an unreachable element is now prevented
- Some shell operations that might have caused application freezes for very slow or non-accessible elements are now handled asynchronously
- High DPI improvements
- Context Menu: The modern “Share” command, that was introduced with Windows 10 is now working in ShellBrowser’s context menu
- ShellList: In rename operations it is now possible to remove the extension of a file, even if Windows Explorer is configured to hide extensions. In prior versions, trying to do so didn’t have any effect
Filename Preview now show CUE, LOG, M3U and Album Art filenames
New metadata support
- PERFORMER
- SPARS code
Improved Cue Sheet [.cue] metadata support
- Added support for (optionally) writing 'Label', 'Catalog number', 'Copyright' and 'Conductor' metadata
- Added support for reading 'Publisher', 'Comment', 'Label', 'Catalog number', 'Copyright' and 'Conductor' metadata
Cosmetic UI scaling bug in Settings/General/Metadata fixed

12.0.3

Codec Updates
- FLAC 1.5.0
  - Multithreaded encoding
  - Added -e -p and -ep special options for maximum compression
- WavPack 5.8.0
Added 'Black gray' dark mode in addition to the existing 'Black' dark mode
Integrated Windows Explorer folder view now respects the Windows Explorer 'Show all folders' setting and shows the folder tree similar to Windows Explorer
Updated Audio Converter status window now shows estimated remaining time and average CPU usage
Audio converter status window thread count now includes the additional threads of multithreaded encoders such as FLAC and WavPack
Bugfix: Selecting encoder with keyboard by pressing the first letter of the output format name did not load the newly selected encoder format configuration
Bugfix: Selecting a stream from multistream .MP4 file reloaded all metadata from the file and overwrote metadata changes made before selecting stream

12.0.2

AutoRip – the effortless way to rip multiple CDs at once. With this feature, the app automatically detects and rips audio CDs. Simply insert your CDs, and let AutoRip handle the rest.
MusicBrainz downloaded album art default resolution changed to 1200px (previously large/500px)
Discogs now correctly gets Album Artist / Track Artist(s) when it consists of several parts
Recognize AC-3, EAC-3 and DTS as lossy formats so that 'Lossy to lossless format conversion 'Auto' bit depth now work for these formats
Improved auto-numbering Number tags menu
Filename generation / Replace text: Handle O/S reserved characters in filenames better so no user mistakes can happen
Improved AAC-LC/HE-AAC (v2) decoder ISO gapless (better check for faulty ISO gapless atoms)

12.0.1

Cover Art Load/Save buttons option for Last used folder / Audio file folder
Read and Decode invalid FLAC files where STREAMINFO is not the first metadata block, automatic file fix with Save Metadata
Read and Decode Opus files that are corrupted with invalid timestamps
Bugfix: 'Metadata from filename' added trailing space to 'Album Artist' and/or 'Track Artist' tags with templates that contain '<Album Artist> - <Album>' and/or '<Track Artist> - <Title>'
Bugfix: 'Rename files' may have shown 'Access Violation' error before opening 'Rename files' window when Windows DPI scaling was not set to (default) 100%/96 DPI

12.0

New: Added support for MPEG-4 ISO FF Chapters [ m4a m4b ]
New: Added support for Chapters [ m4a m4b flac ogg opus ]
- Option to write individual files as Chapters in Single File output mode [ m4a m4b flac ogg opus ]
- Extract files containing Chapters to individual files
- Transfer Chapter information on conversions
- Chapter information stored and extracted in sample accuracy
- Metadata Editor: Load/Save Chapter information
- Metadata Editor: Edit Chapter metadata (chapter time offsets and titles)
New: Gain DSP (adjust loudness -/+)
New: Installer option for creating desktop shortcut
New: New Titanium UI theme, modernized Blue UI theme
New: Save metadata to MPEG-4 ISO FF 'DASH' format [ .m4a streaming format ]
Codec Update: PCM output support up to 3072 kHz [ wav w64 ]
Codec Update: All lossless can encode sample rates up to 3072 kHz
Codec Update: DSD encoder supports up to DSD2048
Codec Update: DSD decoder ultra high sample rate output
Codec Update: DTS encoder supports more bit rates and 'standard' bit rates
Codec Update: Monkey's Audio [ ape ] Codec 10.76
- Re-enabled 'Insane' Compression Level that was previously disabled (because it was not initially supporting 32 bit depth)
Improved: Always use WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE WAV header when bits per sample > 16-bit for compatibility with the original WAVE/RIFF specification [ wav w64 ]
Bugfix: Ripper / Converter / DSP Options: Fixed UI apply edit-field value by clicking on empty window area (was broken since v11.3)
Bugfix: Discogs metadata UTF8 conversion was broken (due C++ library bug since unknown date)
Bugfix: Ripping log correct information for loudness / peak / normalization / gain settings
Bugfix: Fixed a bug in WavPack DSD encoder, WavPack DSD -> WavPack DSD in "direct DSD" transfer mode was not carrying complete DSD data blocks
Trial reset, new free trial period for previous trial users

11.5.3

Opus 1.5.2 codec update
FFMPEG 7.0 codecs update
Automatic 'Size All Columns to Fit' option
Bugfix: 'Size Column To Fit' did not apply to the correct column if the default column order was altered
Build 2: Fixed Audio CD Ripper's HDCD column could not be hidden
Build 2: Fixed 'Size Column to Fit' click on empty header area error
Build 2: Improved album detection on Discogs query

11.5.2

Audio CD Ripper improvements for CD-Text, HDCD and Pre-Emphasis
- HDCD detection & 24-bit output option
- Pre-Emphasis: De-emphasize 24-bit output option
- Option to *not overwrite* CD-Text information by Internet Disc Database metadata
- Ripping log improvements
  - Shows whether HDCD detection was enabled
  - Shows HDCD info for each track
  - Shows whether CD-Text was read from the CD
  - Shows whether CD-Text was retained as is in metadata
  - Log CD-Text information that was read from the CD
Opus 1.5.1 codec update
- Enabled Non-Linear Adaptive Coding Enhancer (NoLACE) (improved decoder speech quality at very low bit-rates down to 6 kbit/s)
- Enabled AVX2 optimizations (improved encoding & decoding performance on processors that support AVX2 instruction set)

11.5.1

Opus 1.5.1 codec
- Improved audio quality & performance
WavPack 5.7.0 codec
- Improved performance with the new multithreaded encoder that is used whenever there is performance benefit over parallel converters
Monkey's Audio [APE] 10.55 codec
Audio Engine performance optimizations
Improved sample-exact fast seek feature (for cue/chapter/subtracks extraction)
- Added for the DSF, xHE-AAC [m4a], WMA, Musepack and FFmpeg [mp4,m4a,mkv,mka,etc] formats
- Improved for the AAC|HE-AAC(v2) [m4a] and ALAC [m4a] formats
- Fixed for the HE-AAC v2 (Parametric Stereo) [m4a] format (extracted sub-tracks were incorrectly decoded as mono resulting half-speed playback)
- Updated for all other audio file formats
Wave [wav] improved support for decoding non-PCM formats
Wave64 [w64] improved support for decoding non-PCM formats
AIFF [aif aiff aifc] added support for decoding non-PCM formats
Detect WebM files with *invalid* .ogg (Vorbis) or .opus (Opus) extensions and handle the files correctly
Do not copy EBU R 128 / ReplayGain metadata from source file by default (when converting) (can be enabled from the Settings) (recommended to use the 'Scan loudness and include EBU R 128 | ReplayGain metadata' option instead to avoid mistakes)
Option to auto-close conversion window after conversion task has successfully completed
Build 2: Fixed DSD -> DSD splitting

11.5

Support Matroska metadata [ .mka .mkv ] (read/write)
Support WebM metadata [ .webm .weba ] (read/write)
New TrueHD encoder [ .mka .m4a .truehd ]
New E-AC-3 encoder [ .mka .m4a .eac3 ]
New DTS encoder [ .mka .m4a .dts ]
Updated AC-3 encoder [ .mka .m4a .ac3 ]
Updated Exhale Extended HE-AAC encoder 1.2.1
Preferred audio stream can now be chosen from the multi-stream file formats such as Matroska [ .mkv ] and MPEG-4 ISO FF [ .mp4 ]
Improved automatic *best* audio stream selection from MPEG-4 ISO FF [ .mp4 ] (previously AAC had priority)
Audio streams of video files now show more exact audio codec names [ AC-3, E-AC-3, AAC-LC, HE-AAC, xHE-AAC, DTS, DTS-HD, TrueHD ]
Right-click to auto-fit column(s) in Audio CD Ripper & Audio Converter status window
Add New Profile applies current settings (not defaults)
Fix CD Ripper's CD-Player controls over volume control in scaled UI mode
Improved WAV, AIFF and Wave64 metadata writing (automatically fix incorrectly aligned ID3 or other chunk written by a non-compliant software)
Improved Profile Editor window
Other minor user interface improvements

11.4.1

Bugfix: Fixed manual MusicBrainz / Discogs / GD3 metadata search

11.4

C++ compilers, libraries and runtime updates, performande benefits and general improvements
FFmpeg 6.1 decoder
FFmpeg 6.1 AC-3 encoder
Monkey's Audio [ APE ] 10.29 Codec
Adjusted metadata window edit-field margins (for usability)
Keyboard shortcut [ F8 ] to start Rip CD / Convert
Added tab stops to output audio format parameters' combo boxes (for accessibility)
Bugfix: 'Copy external Cover Art file from Source Folder' feature in Audio Converter (Options) did not reliably work (the output folder was not always available/created when trying to copy the image file)

11.3.1

Updated JPEG support (updated libjpeg6b to mozjpeg 4.1.1/libjpeg8d)
- Up to 20% smaller JPEG files with improved visual quality
- Improved JPEG decoding performance (faster UI with JPEG cover art)
- Non-standard JPEGs with more than 10 blocks/MCU now loaded without errors
User interface improvements (icons, menus, languages)

11.3

Updated 'Copy/Paste metadata' can now copy metadata from/to multiple files
Amazon Cover Art search works again with all Amazon stores also added new Amazon stores
New Options & DSP window tooltip-preview
UI improvements
Audio engine and codec improvements
Performance enhancements
Code cleanup
Bug fixes

11.2.1

Improved Audio Converter metadata editing features
- Copy/Paste metadata from file to file(s)
- Get metadata tags from filenames & filepaths
- Auto-number files' track number metadata
- Single-click clear metadata of selected files
Improved Filenames Preview / Rename window with new tags
Audio CD Ripper bugfix: Invalid "Track 00 error" was shown if an External File (log cue m3u images) Option and ReplayGain AlbumGain Option were both enabled

11.2

Improved output filename templates
- Added tags to specify number of leading zeros for numerical values such as <Number #/##/###/####> and <Disc Number #/##/###/####>
- Added <Sequence> (list order #) tag
Improved Filename Preview / Rename window
Option to specify the Gain of the DSD to PCM conversions (default +6 dB gain) [ 0 dB DSD = -6 dB FS PCM ]
Improved SACD ISO support
Vorbis Comment [ .flac .opus .ogg ] metadata option to write TRACKNUMBER=n / TRACKTOTAL=N | DISCNUMBER=n / DISCTOTAL=N (standard, default) or TRACKNUMBER=n/N | DISCNUMBER=n/N (old standard, user request). Vorbis Comment [ .flac .opus .ogg ] metadata reader can read all metadata standards.
Fixed a bug in FLAC metadata reader not reading YEAR, ORIGINALYEAR, TOTALTRACKS, TOTALDISCS, TRACKNUMBER n/*N* DISCNUMBER n/*N* metadata
Show CUE, LOG, M3U and Cover Art filenames in the ripping & conversion progress list
Moved Audio CD Ripper Range-profile range-setting to the Options window
Show correct bit depth for files (such as MKA, MKV) containing DTS audio
Audio CD Ripper added option to specify LOG CUE M3U filename templates
Audio CD Ripper Normal-profile option for asking confirmation before overwriting existing folder
External Cover Art / LOG CUE M3U file name templates now can use translated tags

11.1.1

Updated FLAC 1.4.3 Codec
Bugfix: xHE-AAC encoder failed to encode low volume audio files

11.1

Updated Silence Removal DSP with an option for threshold dB or digital silence
Updated integrated File Explorer components
Updated Monkey's Audio [APE] 10.18 Codec
Updated Exhale 1.2.0.1 Extended HE-AAC encoder
Bugfix: 24-bit DTS was decoded in wrong format resulting in an invalid output file

11.0.3

Updated Fraunhofer IIS xHE-AAC encoder v4.4.0
Updated Fraunhofer IIS AAC-LC/HE-AAC (v2) encoder v4.4.0
Updated integrated File Explorer components
Removed legacy 32-bit shell extension from the 64-bit installation

11.0.2

Updated Metadata Panel
- Standard/Extended - Standard as default (Change in 'View'->'Metadata Panel'->'Standard' / 'Extended')
- Standard: the standard set of metadata tags
- Extended: the full set of metadata tags
- Changed 'Comment' field to 4 full rows in Extended mode and 7 full rows in Standard mode
Audio CD Ripper UPC/EAN (barcode) can be manually edited in the main user interface
ID3v2.3: Write Year/Date to TYER frame only (for compatibility). Support reading TYER+TDAT frames and TYER Year/Date frame. (v11 and v11.0.1 wrote TYER+TDAT, older versions TYER only)

11.0.1

Enter key now moves to the next row in 'Quick Edit' mode
Album Art MIME type was set incorrectly
UPC/EAN was not always showing in CD Ripper metadata panel

11

Track/File list editing improvements
Improved layout when metadata panel is set to left or right
Improved metadata support, more metadata fields in the main user interface
Improved support for Release Date metadata tag (Year-field can contain either Release Year or Release Date)
Improved ID3V2 [mp3] and MPEG-4 ISO FF [m4a] metadata
Filename generation <Year> tag takes year from Release Date
Indicate 32-bit *floating point* audio in Bit Depth field
New recognized metadata fields
- Mixer
- Engineer
- Producer
- DJ Mixer
Codec updates
- Opus 1.4 with audio quality improvements
- Monkey's Audio [APE] 10.11 with support for 32-bit floating point samples compression

10.3

User interface updates
- Album art viewer
- Dark mode fixes
- Improved metadata panel on left/right side
- Other minor improvements
Updated Amazon Album Art search
Updated WavPack 5.6.0 Codec
Updated Monkey's Audio 9.20 Codec
Updated Exhale 1.2.0 Extended HE AAC Encoder
Fixed JPEG EXIF image rotation on image resizing
Fixed FFMPEG 24-bit formats were decoded to 32-bit
Fixed SACD ISO metadata was not correctly converted to Unicode
General improvements and code optimizations

10.2.1

FLAC 1.4.2 codec update
- Slightly improved performance with newly enabled code optimizations (AVX2)
- FLAC changelog: https://github.com/xiph/flac/blob/1.4.2/CHANGELOG.md
LAME 3.101 MP3 encoder
- Performance improvements
Opus encoder
- Added 416, 448, 480, 512 kbit/s stereo modes per user requests
Vorbis encoder
- Added 480 kbit/s stereo mode per user requests
MP3 decoder
- Correct decoding of files with an invalid first frame header (wrong channel count)
Monkey's Audio [APE] 8.92 codec update
Updated the integrated File Explorer component with visual and stability improvements
OneDrive folders now available in the integrated File Explorer
'Music' folder now quickly accessible in the integrated File Explorer
Audio Converter's 'Play' command now can play multiple files and opens files in the default audio player with 'OPEN' verb (previously 'PLAY' verb) (now works with all audio players such as Windows Media Player, Foobar2000, VLC, Winamp, etc)
Bugfix: Width of the last 4 file list columns in audio converter may have been incorrectly automatically resized [ bug existed in 10.2 only ]
Bugfix: Audio CD Ripper status window was missing *album*/loudness/gain/peak [ bug existed in few last versions ]
Bugfix: 2nd (multichannel) TOC was not read from SACD ISO if the file extension [.iso] was not in lowercase [ bug has existed as long as there's been SACD ISO support ]
Bugfix: WMV (Windows Media Video) file without audio tracks resulted to a WMA decoder misbehaviour that crashed the app [ bug has existed very long time ]
Other minor improvements

10.2

Codec updates
- FLAC 1.4.0
  - 32-bit samples encoding/decoding
  - Compression improvements
  - Performance improvements
  - More info: https://github.com/xiph/flac/blob/1.4.0/CHANGELOG.md
- Monkey's Audio [APE] 8.81
- Exhale Extended HE-AAC 1.1.9.1
- AC-3 Encoder [FFmpeg 5.1.1]
- FFmpeg 5.1.1
Loudness is now shown as LUFS (EBU R 128) by default
- Configurable to show ReplayGain Loudness or ReplayGain Gain
Lossy to Lossless file format conversion now defaults to 16-bit final output
- Configurable to 16-bit, 24-bit, or 32-bit (float)
FLAC decoder supports all bit-depths from 4 to 32-bit (previously 8, 16, 24, 32)
Performed and passed the FLAC decoder test bench (a set of conformance test files)
Audio CD burning normalization setting as LUFS (EBU R 128)
Updated EBU R 128 loudness scanner with performance improvements
Improved support for multi-file Cue Sheet [.cue] files (e.g. Vinyl; one file per multiple tracks per side A/B)
Improved loading of (invalid) Cue Sheet [.cue] files
Improved Cue Sheet [.cue] error reporting
UI: Changed the default visible columns in file/track lists (now showing file properties such as bit-depth, channels, sample rate by default), visible columns can be customized
UI: Adjusted the auto-length of columns in the file/track lists (to be able to show a little bit more file information/metadata horizontally)
Bugfix: SACD ISO decoder failed to seek over 4GB {Integer overflow} (tracks with start position >4GB were not extracted correctly)

10.1.2

FLAC 1.3.4 update
WavPack 5.5.0 update
Monkey's Audio [ APE ] 8.42 update
Fixed integrated File Explorer file view flickering in Dark Mode
Startup improvements when started from Windows File Explorer context menu
Audio CD Ripper: Silence removal/addition DSPs automatically disabled when creating file/track Cue Sheet [.cue] (would create non-valid Cue Sheet)

10.1.1

Bugfix: Fixed the sluggish selection of files with album art (was a bug [C++ typo] in thumbnail creation code)
Updated Monkey's Audio [ APE ] 8.12 Codec

10.1

Codec updates
- Opus decoder update
  - Improved decoding of corrupted files
- Updated Monkey's Audio [ APE ] 7.80 codec
- Updated Apple Lossless [ ALAC ] codec
  - Encoder with performance improvements
  - Fixed security vulnerabilities in decoder
- MP3 encoder now allows 44.1 and 48 kHz sample rate selection with VBR modes 7, 8 and 9 per user request
Dark Mode: removed the white color flickering on control and window transitions

10.0.7

Visual updates
Dark Mode
- Darker (now inline with the Windows 10/11 system dark mode)
- Use more Windows 10/11 native dark mode features
- Windows 10 native dark mode window caption
- Windows 10 native dark mode (thinner) window borders
- Windows 10 native window shadows
- Improved file lists and file explorer tree visuals
- Improved full metadata edit window visuals
- Improved cover art search and manual metadata search window visuals
Blue Theme
- Windows 11 less saturated window borders
Rating star icons updated
Microsoft Store App: Windows File Explorer context menus can be disabled/enabled from the Settings
Bugfix: When adding an invalid Cue Sheet (.cue) file the App may have crashed when displaying the error window (thread synchronization bug)

10.0.6

Fixed the bug where the App did not show in maximized window in Dark Mode when restoring from the previous session (also the window border was not showing in Windows 10)
Fixed the bug where the Windows File Explorer context menu would still freeze in Windows 10 Dark Mode (regression from the previous update)

10.0.5

Fixed the bug where the Windows File Explorer context menu would freeze (when used) if the App was set to Dark Mode

10.0.4

User interface: Some layout improvements
User interface: Some graphics improvements
Dark Mode: Window resize grip area on bottom is now larger (more sensitive)
Dark Mode: Rendering bug (white pixels) on some areas fixed
Dark Mode: Windows 11 use native dark mode (thinner) borders
Dark Mode: Windows 11 native window shadows now shown
Dark Mode: Windows 10 dark mode now more inline with the Windows 10 design (previously more Windows 11 themed)
Dark Mode: Improved some user interface images to look better in dark mode

10.0.3

Option to choose between Blue and Windows color theme in Light Mode
Minor Dark Mode improvements

10.0.2

Bugfix: Audio Converter Album Art info label was missing in 10.0.1

10.0.1

Dark Mode

10

Updated Silence Removal DSP, now removes the leading and trailing silence with -70 dBFS threshold
Updated MP3 encoder, (re)added explicit Joint Stereo / Stereo mode selection
Windows 11 specific theme improvements
Monkey's Audio [APE] v7.25 update
FDK AAC added more high bit rates up to 512 kbit/s Stereo per user requests

9.5.3

New 'modern' Windows 11 File Explorer context menus
Updated 'classic' Windows File Explorer context menus
Added Windows File Explorer context menus to the Microsoft Store App (Windows 10 'classic' and Windows 11 'modern')
Changed default 6.1 channel order, surround channels Ls/Rs from Lrs/Rrs (rear) to Lss/Rss (side)
Updated Exhale 1.1.9
Fixed Windows 11 selected menu item text from black to white
Fixed MP3 encoder can't convert Mono to Stereo
Other minor improvements

9.5.2

Audio engine
- Added 7.1 and 6.1 output
- Improved downmixing from 7.1 and 6.1
EBU R128 Normalization / ReplayGain calculation
- Improved for multichannel
Metadata
- MPEG-4 ISO file format [ .m4a ]
  - Read 'Compilation' tag value (previously the file was marked as Part of Compilation if the 'Compilation' tag just existed)
- AAC [ .m4a ]
  - Detect AAC-LC <= 24 kHz with the correct sample rate (previously AAC-LC <= 24 kHz was detected with 2 x samplerate
  - Correctly detect HE-AAC Mono files when the M4A file format channels (incorrectly) set to Stereo
User interface
- File info now shows sample rate with 3 decimals (e.g. 22.050 or 44.100 kHz) (previously 22.1 or 44.1 kHz)
Codec updates
- AAC decoder [ .m4a .aac ]
  - Added 7.1, 6.1, 5.0
  - Support additional AAC multichannel signaling (ISO/IEC 14496-3:2009/Amd 4:2013) (6.1, 7.1 rear)
  - Decode AAC-LC <= 24 kHz with the correct sample rate while still retaining backward compatibility with implicit SBR signaling (previously AAC-LC <= 24 kHz was decoded with 2 x samplerate for possible implicit SBR/HE-AAC signaling)
  - Correctly decode HE-AAC Mono files with M4A file format channels (incorrectly) set to Stereo
- Fraunhofer IIS AAC [ Pro ] encoder
  - Added 7.1
  - Reworked CBR output format configurations
- Fraunhofer IIS xHE-AAC [ Pro ] encoder
  - Support more sample rates with low bitrate encoding modes
- Apple AAC encoder
  - Added 7.1, 6.1, 5.0
  - New improved configuration
- Fraunhofer FDK AAC encoder
  - Added 7.1, 6.1, 5.0
  - New calibrated VBR modes for 7.1, 6.1, 5.0
  - Reworked CBR mode configurations
- FLAC encoder/decoder
  - Added 7.1, 6.1, 5.0
- Vorbis encoder/decoder
  - Added 7.1, 6.1, 5.0
  - New improved encoder configuration
  - New encoder settings for CBR/ABR
- Opus encoder/decoder
  - Added 7.1, 6.1, 5.0
  - New improved encoder configuration
  - New bitrate settings
- MP3 encoder
  - New simpler encoder configuration
  - All modes automatically set to highest encoding quality
- Apple Lossless ALAC encoder/decoder
  - Added 7.1, 6.1, 5.0
- Exhale Extended HE-AAC encoder
  - Updated to v1.1.8.1
  - Reworked configuration
- Monkey's Audio [ APE ] encoder/decoder
  - Updated to v7.15
  - Added 7.1, 6.1, 5.0
- WavPack encoder
  - Added 7.1, 6.1, 5.0
- AC3 encoder
  - Added 5.0
  - Reworked configuration
  - Removed unsupported sample rates from the configuration
- Windows Media Audio [ WMA ] encoder
  - Added 7.1
- AIFF file format
  - Added 7.1, 6.1 and 5.0
- WAV file format
  - Added 7.1, 6.1 and 5.0
- Wave64 file format
  - Added 7.1, 6.1 and 5.0
- TTA encoder/decoder
  - Added 7.1
- Musepack encoder
  - Updated configuration estimated bitrates list
- AU file format
  - Added 7.1
- Raw PCM writer
  - Added 7.1

Note: Previously configurated encoder settings may reset to default settings with this update (due encoder configuration updates). Encoder settings can be easily reconfigured.

9.5.1

Updated the previous version change row/column navigation 'Ctrl + Left/Right/Up/Down' to 'Alt + Left/Right/Up/Down' in track/file lists ('Ctrl + Left/Right/Up/Down' reserved for edit control cursor movement)
Improved audio engine multichannel support
- Improved >8ch/7.1/6.1 downmixing (to 5.1/5.0/Quad/Stereo/Mono)
- Minor tuning on mixing matrices
Fixed Apple AAC encoder (available if iTunes is installed) (got broken in previous update)

9.5

Certified for Windows 11
Improved track/file lists navigation (navigate rows/columns with 'Ctrl + Left/Right/Up/Down')
Monkey's Audio [ APE ] v7.02 codec update
Exhale Extended HE-AAC encoder v1.1.7
FLAC codec updated (LibOgg v1.3.5)
Opus codec updated (LibOgg v1.3.5)
Vorbis codec updated (LibOgg v1.3.5)
FFMPEG based decoders (decode audio from certain video file formats) use proper Unicode file names (long Unicode paths now work correctly)
<BARCODE> set file name generation token to '0000000000000' (empty BARCODE) if UPC/EAN does not exist (on the CD or file metadata)
Revert the previous version change: "CD Ripper set UPC/EAN to '0000000000000' if detection is enabled and CD does not have UPC/EAN"
Fixed the bug reading AIFF files with explicit big-endian byte order tag in the file header
Fixed the bug where ISRC was read twice to metadata (from local db and from the Audio CD)

9.4

Updated Extended HE-AAC encoder (Exhale v1.1.6.2)
Updated Opus encoder (with precise math optimizations)
Updated WavPack DSD encoder (DSD 5.1 to DSD 5.1 conversion channel-mix bug fix, removed 'Very High Quality' mode not used with WavPack DSD format)
Updated MP3/MP2/MP1 decoder (improved decoding of files that contain bad first frames with invalid sample rate)
Added Ogg FLAC [.ogg .oga] format (decoder, metadata support)
Added .M4V file format (decoder, metadata support)
Added .OGA file format [Ogg Vorbis, Opus, Ogg FLAC] (decoder, metadata support)
WAV reader can now convert files where data length is set to 0 (invalid WAV file)
Fixed crash when loading corrupt GIF image from metadata
CD Ripper log Album Artist and Album information
CD Ripper set UPC/EAN to '0000000000000' if detection is enabled and CD does not have UPC/EAN
User interface improvements
User interface bug fixes

9.3.2

Updated Fraunhofer IIS [ Professional ] xHE-AAC™ encoder
Updated Fraunhofer IIS [ Professional ] AAC ( AAC-LC | HE-AAC | HE-AAC v2 ) encoder
Updated xHE-AAC™ decoder
Added MPEG-D DRC settings for the xHE-AAC™ decoder
Successfully passed the xHE-AAC™ Codec compliancy tests developed by Fraunhofer
Enabled peak limiter (0 dbFS) on floating point transcoder to prevent codec compression artifacts (lossy formats)

xHE-AAC is a trademark of Fraunhofer and is registered in Germany, the United States, and other countries

9.3.1

Extended HE-AAC encoder
- Whole bitrate range now supports 44.1kHz & 48kHz sample rates
- Mono VBR formats list fixed
Recompiled the whole application because a faulty RAM module was discovered and replaced on the development computer just after the v9.3 was released

9.3

New! Fraunhofer IIS [ Professional ] Extended HE-AAC encoder
New! Fraunhofer IIS [ Professional ] AAC ( AAC-LC | HE-AAC | HE-AAC v2 ) encoder
Updated Extended HE-AAC decoder
Updated AAC-LC, HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2 decoder
Updated WavPack 5.4.0 codec
Updated Monkey's Audio 6.14 codec
Reworked settings UI
Setting to specify which additional metadata is written to the Cue Sheet [.cue]
Discogs service updated (Cover Art is available again)
Don't write Apple iTunes (iTunSMPB) gapless metadata to M4A files by default, can be enabled from the Settings (M4A / MPEG-4 ISO format has native preferred method for gapless playback)

9.2.1

Updated Exhale Extended HE-AAC encoder v1.1.1
- Improved audio quality of low bitrate modes (~40, ~48, ~64, and ~72 kbit/s)
- Improved compatibility with some decoders
Updated DSD encoder
- Improved DSD encoder precision
- Fixed AVX2 processor instruction set optimization inaccuracy

9.2

Updated Exhale Extended HE-AAC encoder v1.1
- Audio quality improvements
- New high quality low-bitrate modes
- Very special thanks to Mr. Christian Helmrich for his great work and big thanks for the co-operation !
Updated Fraunhofer FDK AAC encoder v4.0.1 [ AAC Encoder v4.0.1, FDK Tools v3.1.0 ]
- Audio quality improvements
- Improved VBR modes audio quality
- Retuned for improved audio quality (details)
- Reworked VBR modes with improved audio quality (Full range 24 - 384 kbit/s for Stereo, 16 - 192 kbit/s for Mono, and 96 - 960 kbit/s for 5.1) (details)
Updated Fraunhofer FDK Extended HE-AAC decoder v3.2.0 [ AAC Decoder v3.2.0, FDK Tools v3.1.0 ]
Fraunhofer FDK AAC encoder HE-AAC and HE-AAC v2 modes in MPEG-4 ISO BMFF (M4A) now use “Explicit hierarchical signaling” (previously using “Explicit backward compatible signaling” for compatibility with the old AAC-LC-only decoders)
HE-AAC & HE-AAC v2 MPEG-4 ISO BMFF (M4A) gapless now conforms with MPEG-4 Part 24 (ISO/IEC 14496-24) specification
Updated Apple AAC encoder support, can be used from the new iTunes Desktop versions (v12.10.9.3+) and from the iTunes Microsoft Store version
No longer writes obsolete 'replaygain_originator_code' tags to MPEG-4 ISO BMFF (M4A) files
Updated the output formats descriptions list for clearer appearance

9.1.6

Integrated Windows File Explorer component updated
Allow file operations in shell tree
Added (restored) Peak Normalization (Sample Peak & True Peak)
Show Track/Album Gain as 'dB LUFS', 'dB Δ RG', or 'dB SPL RG' on Ripper/Converter status list
Show Track/Album Peak as '%', or 'dB' on Ripper/Converter status list
Updated Extended HE-AAC encoder & decoder
Updated Monkey's Audio encoder & decoder
Updated AAC [ AAC-LC & HE-AAC (v2) ] decoder

9.1.5

Extended HE-AAC codec update
- Improved CVBR0 and CVBR1 audio quality
Fix: Fraunhofer FDK AAC encoder allow 48, 44.1 kHz sample rates with HE-AAC (v2) VBR modes 1 & 2
Fix: Discogs search matching MusicBrainz helper was disabled

9.1.4

Added Extended HE-AAC codec
Updated AAC-LC and HE-AAC codecs
Updated FLAC codec
Updated Vorbis codec
Updated Opus codec
Updated Monkey's Audio codec
Updated FFMPEG-based codecs
Improved automatic Discogs query matching
Fixed DTS decoder no longer fails on data error
Fixed DTS HD in MKA container was occasionally detected with wrong sample rate

9.1.3

9.1.2

User interface improvements
- Added quick buttons for functions such as Add Files, Clear List, to the Audio Converter UI with the integrated File Explorer visible
- Correct Rip CD and Convert button sizes when other than Normal profile was last used before new program launch
- Load cover art possibility to open from last used folder or source audio file folder (previously last used folder only)
Metadata services improvements
- Get 1080px cover art from WMP service (service default recently changed from 1080px to 720px)
- Get Genre (most voted) metadata from MusicBrainz service
- Get Genre metadata from Discogs service
Codec Updates
- WavPack 5.3.0
Fixes & improvements
- Fix memory fault that may have occured when saving file list to M3U file
- Read ALBUM ARTIST metadata to Album Artist metadata if ALBUMARTIST (standard) does not exist
- Decode M4A/AAC files that have invalid sgpd atom (iso gapless)

9.1.1

Minor updates to the newly refreshed user interface
Recompiled the UI with updated C++ compiler & libraries

9.1

New user interface experience
Added taskbar / start menu jump list to launch Audio Converter, CD Ripper, or Disc Burner
Updated the integrated File Explorer component
MusicBrainz & Discogs manual search by Barcode (UPC/EAN)
CD ripper disc detection (pre-gaps, ISRCs, UPC/EAN) now uses the selected reading speed

9.0.7

Codec Updates
- WavPack 5.2.0

9.0.6

Improved output filenames / rename files filename generation
- New predefined tags
- All metadata tags can be used
- External cover art option allows tags for filename generation
Codec Update: Fraunhofer FDK AAC 4.0.1
- Audio quality improvements
Codec Update: Monkey's Audio 5.11
- Multi-channel support
- 32-bit samples support
- Performance improvements
Profiles UI update
UPC/EAN always visible in the track list after initial scan
Parse multi-disc Cue Sheet / Single File metadata
Minor UI improvements

9.0.5

Added support for converting from Super Audio CD ISO (SACD ISO) [.iso] files
Added 5.0 support for DSD output formats

9.0.4

Bugfix: Fixed user interface bug (cover art icons)

9.0.3

DSD encoder speed improvements (no compromise in audio quality)
DSD decoder audio quality improvements
Refreshed DSP Options window
Bugfix: Fixed buffer overflow in DSD decoder-delay handling
Bugfix: Adding a file with corrupt embedded cover art icon can't crash the App anymore

9.0.2

Fixed the critical bug of the v9.0.1: App did not start on Windows 7/8 because Windows 10 WinRT API was accidentally used in the Desktop version of the App
Updated WavPack DSD encoder

9.0.1

Updated DSD encoder
- Improved performance (~20% faster per thread on i7)
- Improved audio quality
Added WavPack DSD encoder
Updated WavPack decoder
- Native DSD conversion
- Use integrated DSD-to-PCM converter (not WavPack DSD-to-PCM)
Updated WavPack encoder with the official compression levels; Fast, Default, High, Very High (previously Default, Best, Fast)
Bugfix: Fixed the bug of v9.0.0 where the window size was not restored to correct size on a DPI-scaled screen

9.0

Codecs
- FLAC 1.3.3
- New DSD encoders
  - DSF (DSD Stream File) encoder
  - DFF (DSDIFF) encoder
- Updated DSD decoders (DSD-to-PCM converters)
  - Improved decimation / low-pass filter
  - Updated DSF (DSD Stream File) decoder
  - New DFF (DSDIFF) decoder
  - New DFT (DSDIFF) decoder
- Fast seeking support for DSD decoders
  - Fast conversion from .dsf/.dff Cue Sheet audio disc images
Metadata
- Added support for DSDIFF (.dff) metadata
- Improved support for DSD Stream File (.dsf) metadata
Audio Engine
- Support direct DSD to DSD conversion (bit-to-bit lossless conversion between DSD audio file formats)
- Support DSD to DSD conversion via DXD if changing sample rate or modifying audio data with DSPs
Cover Art
- Cover Art thumbnails are now shown in native aspect ratio (previously scaled to square)
- Resize Cover Art with custom resolution
- Keep aspect ratio when resizing Cover Art
- Option to disable embedded Cover Art in output options
- Updated Amazon Cover Art search
  - High resolution Cover Art is available again
  - Amazon query responds more reliably
User interface
- Indicate PCM/DXD/DSD data conversion mode when converting to DSD
- Added 'Select all', 'Clear list', and 'Create M3U' buttons to the Audio Converter (available when the File Explorer is hidden)
- Handle YEAR (DATE) tag as a string (not a number) in advanced metadata editor
- More editing space for the YEAR (DATE) tag, so that date in format '2019-09-07' fits into the visible field
- Use Cover Art as file icon in the Audio Converter file list
Audio CD Ripper
- Show UPC/EAN in the track list
- UPC/EAN, Pre-Gaps, ISRC values in the ripping log
- UPC/EAN, Pre-Gap, Pre-emphasis ISRC detection status in the ripping log
- Pre-emphasis consistency check (TOC vs Subcode) in the ripping log

8.5

Create Cue Sheet in Audio Converter Single File output profile (external .cue / embedded)
Improved the performance of the conversion from Cue Sheet + Audio File (a lot!)
Reorganized Audio CD Ripper and Audio Converter output Options
Improved discogs cover art search (search for all available entries not just CDs)

8.3.2

Fixed the Delete Silence DSP bug that appeared in the last update

8.3.1

SoX sample rate converter operation and configuration improvements
- Automatically set the correct/best resampler precision for the output format / encoder
  - Always the best audio quality
- Option to select default (95%) or steep (99%) passband
- Option to allow aliasing
- Further information about the SoX sample rate converter settings in Audio Engine settings help page
Improved CD-Text writing & reading

8.3

Opus 1.3.1 Codec Update
M4A rating tag Windows File Explorer compatibility
Improved CD player (faster seek, click to seek to a position, larger play buffer, position follows precisely on track change)
Eject/Load buttons replaced with single Eject/Load button :)
Fixed the critical bug created in the previous update: Invalid pre-gap values were written to Cue Sheet if pre-gap detection was not used

8.2.3

Apply de-emphasis when ripping audio CDs that have pre-emphasis
Option to enable/disable de-emphasis from the Audio CD Ripper settings (enabled by default)
Save pre-emphasis / de-emphasize status to the ripping log
Save pre-gap and pre-emphasis information to the local database (no need for rescan when the same CD is inserted again)
Option to Rip and Convert without metadata (no metadata tags written to the output files)
Convert Cue Sheets with more than 99 tracks
Bugfix: Decode Disc Images (Cue Sheet + Audio File) with file size over 4 GB correctly

8.2.2

Amazon Cover Art Search now works again (change in Amazon Search URL)
- Higher resolution cover art from Amazon now available
Added BARCODE (UPC/EAN) and LABEL predefined metadata fields
Added context-sensitive Help buttons to Settings and Options

8.2.1

Replaced CD Ripper error detection compatibility mode with two error detection reading methods

8.2

Improved the Audio CD Ripper Secure Error Detection ripping mode
- Now works and correctly detects read/sync/data errors with the drives previously failing with read/sync errors and extremely slow ripping speeds
- Problem has occured with some drives manufactured by Lite-On (some of them rebranded as PLDS, Asus, Plextor)
UI improvement: Updated the integrated File Explorer
- Added Quick Access (Windows 10) / Favourites (Windows 7/8) (if enabled in Windows File Explorer)
- Navigate to/Select a file by typing the first letters of the file name
- Improved appearance
- Bug fixes
UI improvement: Track list and file list highlight focused item
Fix: Audio CD Ripper showed previous disc metadata if switching to Audio Converter or Disc Burner, changing the disc, and switching back to Audio CD Ripper
Codec update: Added WavPack 32-bit float PCM compression

8.1.1

Improved Audio CD Ripper track-selection checkboxes behaviour
Color error indicators in Audio CD Ripper status window
Cancelling CD ripping in Verify Audio mode now properly deinitializes the output file
Improved ripping speed of the Error Detection / Compatibility mode
Included critical LAME MP3 encoder bugfix (https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/496/)
Improved/fixed CD-R / CD-RW disc supported write speeds detection
Improved AIFF format to support 4GB files (previous limit 2GB)
Added Wave64 (w64) output format
Added Wave64 metadata support
Added AU (au/snd) output format
Reverted back a change made to the device access layer in v8.0.2 (may have caused drive communication problems in some systems with incompatible miniport I/O drivers)
Removed unnecessary drive seeking preparation (added in v8.0.2) prior CD ripping (may have caused ripping issues with some drives)

8.1

Added AC-3 (ac3) encoder
Fixed Apple AAC encoder configuration ui for non-VBR formats
Automatic 32/64-bit file format for MPEG-4 ISO base media file formats (m4a m4b)
Fixed 64-bit WAV (PCM) (RF64) missing number of samples field from the file header
Support decoding Vorbis (ogg) files larger than 2GB
Restricted TTA file size to 4GB (TTA file format maximum size is 4GB)
Workaround for the Opus encoder bug in automatic Music/Voice detection in 5.1 channel mode with very low bitrates
Updated FFmpeg 4.1 (provides decoding support for various audio formats)
Reset free trial period

8.0.7

Set SoX sample rate converter as default resampler
Three SoX resampler quality modes: High, Very High, and Ultra High
DSD to lossless conversion with output sample rate set to 'Auto' now resamples to highest multiple, equal, or below 384 kHz
Improved SoX resampler performance by enabling the SIMD-AVX optimizations
All codecs recompiled with the latest optimizing Intel C++ 19.0 Update 1 compiler. Resulting minor performance improvements
Decode AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate NB+WB) files
Decode THD (TrueHD) files

8.0.6

Added Audio Engine settings to the Options
- Select preferred sample rate converter
  - SoX resampler
  - Opus/Speex resampler
- Select sample rate conversion quality
- Added Dithering options
  - Enable / Disable the dither
  - Select Rectangular, Triangular, or Noise-shaped
Smarter 'Auto'-selection of the output sample rate (for all output formats)
- Automatically select the output sample rate that preserves the best audio quality (previously used sample rate multiples when possible)
- Output sample rate can also be chosen manually for all output formats
Added 384 kHz and 352.8 kHz sample rate output for all lossless formats (except for WMA/lossless that does not support it)
Improved Opus encoder audio quality
- Uses sample rate converter and quality selected from the Options for improved audio quality (Opus internally uses Speex resampler with quality level 5)
- Configure sample rate converter quality from Options
Vorbis encoder update
- Added manual sample rate selection
- Now supports 192kHz, 176.4kHz, 96kHz, and 88.2kHz encoding
Fraunhofer FDK AAC encoder update
- Added manual sample rate selection
- Now supports 96kHz and 88.2kHz encoding
- More CBR formats for AAC-LC and HE-AAC
Apple AAC encoder update
- Added manual sample rate selection
Improved MP3 encoder audio quality
- Better audio quality for output formats that require sample rate conversion
- Let the LAME MP3 encoder to decide the best sample rate, but use sample rate converter selected from the Options for improved audio quality
- Configure sample rate converter quality from Options
Monkey's Audio v4.40 codec update

8.0.5

Fixed the bug where MusicBrainz query froze the App when MusicBrainz service returned malformed metadata entry. Bug occurred in very rare occasions.
Minor user interface improvements

8.0.4

Opus 1.3 codec update
Manual GD3 database search
Improved WAV metadata support
User interface improvements

8.0.3

Added option to save cover art to an external file in Audio Converter
- Filename can be auto or specified (e.g. Folder.jpg)
- Option to auto-resize
Added WAV dual channel L+R output mode (per user requests)
Other improvements
- GD3 cover art search now works with ambersand (&)
- Don't write Total Tracks metadata in Disc Image and Single File mode if it is disabled from the Settings
- Case conversion is now also applied to Album Artist and Album Title

8.0.2

Improved the 'Verify Audio' ripping method
- Sector by sector CRC comparison
- Show number of CRC errors found
- Log exact positions of CRC errors
Improved ripping log error reporting layout
- Exact time position of an error at start of a line
- Multiple errors in the same time position are reported on the same line
Added Eject and Close Tray buttons to the Disc Burner :)
Bug fix: 'Copy external Cover Art file' option now respects the setting

8.0.1

Following changes have been made in response to user feedback:

Put 'Delete source files after conversion' option back
Added 'Play' to Audio Converter list right-click menu
Cover Art 'Load' does not open the location of the currently selected audio file, but uses the default or last used location
Bug Fix: Audio CD Ripper creating an empty m3u playlist

8.0

7.2.1

User interface improvements
- Better layout of the metadata query results list
- Metadata query results now include cover art preview
- Larger cover art thumbnails in manual and cover art searches
- Improved the graphical items quality of the user interface when DPI-scaling enabled
- Online metadata query results can be limited from the Settings
Bugfix: Possible multithread deadlock in simultaneous Discogs and MusicBrainz query may have caused metadata query to hang, Discogs query now initiates faster
Bugfix: Allow DVD-RW disc erasing (Erase button was disabled for DVD-RW discs)
Bugfix: Do not re-enable Shell Context Menus when updating the Software
Bugfix: Empty folders not removed from the Audio Converter list when files removed

7.2

Discogs Manual search
Discogs Cover Art search
Manual metadata search in Audio Converter
Improved MusicBrainz manual search with cover art preview
Cover Art info in the metadata selection list

7.1.8

New additional metadata sources
- Windows Media Player online CD database
- Accurate, usual source is Gracenote
- Discogs
- Large music database

7.1.7

Codec updates
- FhG FDK AAC encoder 4.0.0
Audio quality improvements
- Monkey's Audio (APE) 4.34
Performance improvements

7.1.6

Amazon Cover Art Search works again
Using the new protocol, because Amazon does not allow the use of Product Advertising API anymore
Improved multi-monitor support
Move app correctly between the monitors, remember the state of the window
Access MusicBrainz service with secure (https/ssl) protocol
All Internet connections are now secure except freedb that does not support it
Updated website links in the app

7.1.5

Bugfix: Previous update may have caused app to hang on Save Metadata in some cases
Bugfix: Missing ID3v1 tag from MP3 file when Calculate ReplayGain enabled and AlbumGain calculated
Added choice between m3u8 and m3u playlist format in saving the file/track list
Build 4: Improved multi-monitor support
Build 4: Access MusicBrainz service with secure (https/ssl) protocol
Build 4: Updated website links in app

7.1.5

Bugfix: Previous update may have caused program to hang on Save Metadata under certain circumstances
Bugfix: Missing ID3v1 tag from MP3 file when Calculate ReplayGain enabled and AlbumGain calculated
Choice to save file/tracklist to m3u8 and m3u format

7.1.4

Codec updates
- Vorbis updated to 1.3.6 with libogg 1.3.3
- FLAC (1.3.2) updated with libogg 1.3.3
- Opus (1.2.1) updated with libogg 1.3.3
Correctly detect and decode mono MP3 files that have (invalid) stereo VBR header
Always keep the original creation date of the file(s) on metadata update
Minor user interface improvements

7.1.3

Microsoft Store App update

7.1.2

Audio Converter now supports up to 64 parallel converters
Audio Converter performance improvements

7.1.1

Audio CD Ripper improvements
- Added error detection compatibility mode that can be enabled for the drives that don't properly support the hardware-level error detection (C2 error pointers)
- Improved error recovery
- Don't stop on hardware-corrected read error in Normal ripping mode
- Don't stop on hardware-corrected read error but report the data error in Error Detection ripping mode
- Improved ripping/encoding performance by optimizing the CPU usage of the control thread and status window
- Support converting Opus files with .ogg file extension
- Don't crash when loading a FLAC file that has a corrupt (zero-length) metadata vorbis comment field

7.1

Performance improvements
- All codecs and algorithm libraries recompiled and optimized with the latest C++ compilers
- Notable performance improvements in most of the codecs (MP3, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC)
- No change in audio quality
Bugfix: Decoding DSF file larger than 1GB failed
Bugfix: Adding a folder containing an m3u8 playlist to the Audio Converter added the same files twice

7.0.9

Fixed loading of MP3/ID3V2 embedded images with unicode description text
Fixed Shorten (.shn) decoding
Added support for m3u8 (M3U UTF-8) playlists
Default padding block is now written to the created FLAC files to fix the playback bug of FLAC files in faulty firmware of some Pioneer and Onkyo receivers
Default behaviour of the official FLAC encoder

7.0.8

Monkey's Audio 4.33 codec update
Fixed a memory leak in video file audio decoder
Download 500x500 Cover Art from MusicBrainz by default
Better default size for embedded cover art
Smaller download - faster metadata query
High-resolution Cover Art download can be enabled from the Settings

7.0.7

Read LAME 3.100 MP3 file gapless info
Gapless decoding of LAME 3.100 MP3 files
M4A metadata editing, now possible to remove tags from existing files
WMA metadata editing, now possible to remove BOOL and DWORD tags from existing files
Don't fail APE conversion on bad crc
AAC improved decoding of damaged files (improve syncing on bad frames)
M4A ISO gapless improvements (Converting M4A rips from sources like YouTube now work properly)

7.0.6

Updated MP3 encoder
- LAME v3.100
- LAME Changelog
Improved MP3 encoding performance

7.0.5

Fixed the memory allocation defect of v7.0.3/4 that sometimes caused a crash in sample rate conversion
Subfolders starting with a dot are now included when the parent folder is dragged to the audio converter

7.0.4

Fixed the UI problems of the previous update
Fixed the silence removal DSP that got broken in the previous update

7.0.3

Performance improvements
- Audio engine optimizations
- Significantly faster audio conversion
- No changes in audio quality
- Reset trial period for trial users

7.0.2 - Windows Store only

Support for Apple Core Audio AAC encoder in the Windows Store version of the app

7.0.1

Support for Apple Core Audio AAC encoder
Show estimated bit rate range for VBR output formats
Small performance improvement in audio engine
Minor user interface improvements

7.0 - Fall Creators Update

New accurate 64-bit multichannel audio processing engine
Newest audio codecs
Improved audio conversion from video files
Extended filename template syntax for more flexible automatic file naming
User interface improvements
- Updated language translations

6.2.3

New high resolution 64-bit audio processing engine
New! Multichannel audio conversion
New! High bit depth (>24-bit) output
New! High quality Stereo to Multichannel upmixing
New! High quality Multichannel to Stereo downmixing
Following codecs updated with 5.1 output and high bit depth support
- AAC
- AIFF
- FLAC
- Apple Lossless
- Vorbis
- Opus
- TTA
- WAV
- WMA
- WavPack

6.2.2

New high resolution 64-bit audio processing engine
New! Multichannel audio conversion
New! High bit depth (>24-bit) output
New! High quality Stereo to Multichannel upmixing
New! High quality Multichannel to Stereo downmixing
Following codecs updated with 5.1 output and high bit depth support
- AAC
- AIFF
- FLAC
- Apple Lossless
- Vorbis
- Opus
- TTA
- WAV
- WMA
- WavPack

6.2.2

Bugfix: AAC decoder true 5.1 output (was downmixing to stereo)
Bugfix: AIFF reader multichannel output
Bugfix: Show correct WavPack bit depth

6.2.1

New high resolution 64-bit audio processing engine
New! Multichannel conversion
New! High bit depth (>24-bit) output
New! High quality Stereo to Multichannel upmixing
New! High quality Multichannel to Stereo downmixing
Following codecs updated with multichannel and high bit depth support
- AAC
- AIFF
- FLAC
- Apple Lossless
- Vorbis
- Opus
- TTA
- WAV
- WMA
- WavPack

6.2

New high resolution 64-bit audio processing engine
New! Multichannel conversion
New! High bit depth (>24-bit) output
New! High quality Stereo to Multichannel upmixing
New! High quality Multichannel to Stereo downmixing
Following codecs updated with multichannel and high bit depth support
- AAC
- AIFF
- FLAC
- Apple Lossless
- Vorbis
- Opus
- TTA
- WAV
- WMA
- WavPack

6.1

Improved M4A / AAC codec gapless feature
Added support for MPEG-4/ISO file format gapless information
Improved user interface
Improved metadata text select/copy/paste behaviour
Improved network browsing in the integrated Windows Explorer view
Improved MP3 decoder
Can decode MP3 files that have more than 500kB of foreign data (e.g. large APEV2 tag at the end of the file)

6.0.9

Codec update
- FLAC 1.3.2 July update
Performance improvements
Bug fixes
- Language update
- German

6.0.8

Codec update
- Opus 1.2.1
Fixed a rare issue in the codec, see the details
Improved the ripping log to explicitly show the copy and test errors and crcs

6.0.7

Codec update
- Opus 1.2
Improved audio quality

6.0.6 (Windows Store only)

Improved tile icons

6.0.5

Restored access to Amazon web services, so that Amazon Cover Art Search feature works again

6.0.4

Codec updates
- Opus 1.1.5
- Monkey's Audio 4.25
- Opus Codec now writes ReplayGain2 (EBU R128) information to R128_TRACK_GAIN/R128_ALBUM_GAIN tags instead of REPLAYGAIN_TRACK_GAIN/REPLAYGAIN_ALBUM_GAIN tags as defined by the Opus Codec standard. New implementation is compatible with Opus header gain feature and Opus compatible players.
- Detailed codec information dialog for output formats

6.0.3

Codec updates
Bug fixes

6.0.2

Improved handling of large metadata
Improved the performance of the enhanced metadata editor
Other general improvements
Language updates

6.0.1

Windows Store update

6.0 - Creators Update

Certified for Windows 10 Creators Update
Enhanced user interface
Improved performance
Latest audio codecs included

5.5.1

Bugfix: Audio Converter hanging when adding a folder structure that has subfolder(s) without audio file(s)
Can create filenames ending with a dot (e.g. "Born in the U.S.A..flac")

5.5

Apply ReplayGain - Normalization, dB value can now be set with accuracy of one decimal place
Audio Converter's enhanced metadata editor, removal of ISRC metadata now works
Cover Art box image type name is now translated
Updated language translations

5.4

Bugfix: Fixed a bug in Audio Converter's metadata editing where the program would randomly crash with "Access Violation" or "Abnormal program termination."
Bugfix: Fixed a rare bug where GD3 query would freeze when there is an unexpected field in XML metadata
Cover Art box now displays the first found metadata image if there is no "Cover Art (front)" tagged metadata image

5.3

Fixed an UI bug in enhanced metadata editor, where inline editing of a metadata value was not applied
Improved Audio CD Ripper track list and Audio Converter file list control (bug fix and performance improvement)
New 30-day free trial period for trial version users

5.2.2

User interface improvements
- Improved Audio Converter file list performance
- Improved Audio Converter's "Save Metadata" performance, no UI update while updating the metadata of files
- Save-button for saving an embedded image to a file in the enhanced Metadata Editor
- Improvement for the "Size All Columns to fit"
Bugfix: Audio Converter now generates the correct output folder name when converting from a single file cue sheet, "extract tracks from cue sheet" option is enabled, and a relative output path is specified in the Output Folder field
Relative paths of input files in the Audio Converter list are now preserved also when a relative output path is specified in the Output Folder field
Improved stability of Audio Converter / Metadata Editor, fixed possible thread-synchronization issues
Updated language translations

5.2.1

Updated AAC encoder
- FhG FDK AAC encoder 3.4.22p3
- Fine tuned low and mid range bitrate encoding bandwidths for improved audio quality
- Adjusted AAC LC VBR mode bitrate ranges
Improved Cue Sheet support
- Added GENRE, DATE, COMMENT, and SONGWRITER (per user requests)
- Added audio conversion from .TS video files

5.2

Improved Cue Sheet support
- Support for embedded Cue Sheets
- Support for ReplayGain metadata in Cue Sheets
- Metadata editing for Cue Sheets
- Switch between external and embedded Cue Sheet
- Convert Cue Sheet images as whole to other audio formats
- Clean Cue Sheet format - no longer writes unnecessary info
Codec Updates
- FhG FDK AAC encoder 3.4.22p
Improved audio quality
Performance improvements for x64

5.1.5

Codec Updates
- FhG FDK AAC encoder 3.4.22p
Improved audio quality
Performance improvements for x64
Bug fixes
- Fixed the problem in Audio CD Ripper where the Cue Sheet selection resetted back to external when the software were restarted even thought the embedded Cue Sheet was previously selected

5.1.4

Fixed the Audio Converter bug where ReplayGain metadata was written to the output file when Apply ReplayGain DSP was enabled even thought the ReplayGain metadata option was disabled
Fixed the Audio Converter bug where it may have crashed if Single File output was selected

5.1.3

Fix for the UI bug where clicking on the empty area in Audio CD Ripper track list would cause an error message

5.1.2

Improved Cue Sheet support
- Support for embedded Cue Sheets
- Support for ReplayGain metadata in Cue Sheets
- Metadata editing for Cue Sheets
- Switch between external and embedded Cue Sheet
- Convert Cue Sheet images as whole to other audio formats
- Clean Cue Sheet format - no longer writes unnecessary info
- Improved metadata gathering for Disc Image / Single File outputs
User interface improvements

5.1.1

Codec updates
- WavPack 5.1.0
- Opus 1.1.4

5.1

Improved user interface
Breadcrumb navigation for shell browser
New folder selection window
Metadata editing window editing improvements
Other minor improvements
Codec update
- Monkey's Audio 4.18
- Using the latest SDK
- No changes in audio compression

5.0.9

Codec updates
- FLAC 1.3.2
- Slight compression improvement
Improved encoding speed
Improved I/O performance
Bug fixes
- WavPack 5.0.0
- Supports lossless DSD audio compression (converted to PCM in EZ CD Audio Converter)
- Maximum file size no longer limited to 4GB
- Small fixes and improvements
UI improvement
Fixed the metadata editing window, so that it now works as it was designed to
Bug fix
- Fixed the bug where the software would revert to system default language after installation even though the english was previously selected (Standalone installer, not Windows Store)

5.0.8

Bug fixes for the FLAC (1.3.2) encoder
Fixed a possible bug in the encoder (may have caused encoder to fail, no errors on completed encodings)
Fixed the bug where the newly created file would have read-only property set if the ReplayGain calculation was enabled
Improvements
- Ripping or converting to an existing file with read-only property set no longer fails
- Updating metadata of a file with read-only property set no longer fails

5.0.7

UI update
- Metadata editing window now works as it was designed to

5.0.6

Codec Updates
- FLAC 1.3.2
- WavPack 5.0.0

5.0.5

Amazon Cover Art search works again (protocol change)
Improved multi-channel to stereo mixing matrix, removed auto-gain to prevent clipping, gain can be manually adjusted with the ReplayGain

5.0.4

Implemented exclusive ripping and burning mode that prevents interference from other apps
Improved user interface performance, can be seen as enhanced performance in ripping and audio file conversion
Fixed a bug in WMA decoder of previous update (conversion from WMA format possibly failed)

5.0.3

Improved memory footprint and memory performance
Fixed a major memory leak in MP3 encoder
Fixed memory leaks in FLAC encoder and FLAC metadata read/write
Fixed other minor memory leaks
Improved encode/decode performance by utilizing the SSE3, SSE4, AVX, and AVX2 special processor instructions (previously SSE and SSE2 only)

5.0.2

Fixed the problem that caused startup failure on some computers showing "System can't find the path specified" error message

5.0.1

Minor user interface improvements
Some performance optimizations

5.0

Certified for Windows 10 Anniversary edition
Support for high-resolution displays (4k, large fonts, Windows DPI scaling)
Improved user interface
Latest and best audio codecs are included

4.1.1

Fixed a visual error in populating the metadata texts to the metadata panel when no items were selected in track and file lists
Language updates: Swedish

4.1

Improved user interace DPI scaling, perfect scaling with all Windows DPI settings
4k
Windows large fonts
All Windows DPI scale values (100%-400%)
Full pixel resolution for cover art and embedded metadata images (like before)

4.0.9

Fixed DPI scaling

4.0.8

Fixed startup errors (path not found in Win7/8 or can't find path shell in Win10)
Fixed DPI scaling in 4k mode (200% DPI scaling)

4.0.7

Improved the Windows Explorer view of the main user interface
Opus codec 1.1.3
Now keeps the original FLAC encoder vendor string when updating metadata of existing FLAC files
General performance improvements
Language updates: Spanish, French

4.0.5

Fixed the bug in reading ID3V2 Unicode COMM tag set by a 3rd party app (Unicode BOM in empty description field problem)
Fixed a possible memory access violation when creating an ISO image from a data disc
French language update

4.0.4

Fixed a bug in showing the CD-Text Album Artist and Albummetadata in Audio CD Ripper
Changed the default character set of Cue Sheet and M3U playlist to Ansi/ISO-8859-1 for better compatibility with other apps (that don't properly support the Unicode variants)
Turkish, Catalan, and Spanish language updates

4.0.3

WavPack Codec v4.80.0
Full metadata support for DSF (DSD Stream File)
New DSF (DSD) decoder, with even better accuracy
Automatic Audio CD Ripper's total tracks metadata detection no longer counts data track of an enhanced audio CD
Dutch and Polish language updates

4.0.2

Moved Audio Converter's "Rename files" feature back to its original location per user requests
Language updates

4.0.1

Bug fixes
- Japanese, Estonian, Italian, German, French, Romanian language updates

4.0

Improved metadata support
49 predefined metadata fields, see metadata list and mappings
Custom metadata fields
20 picture types
Support for multiple pictures
All metadata and pictures are transferred on format to format conversion
New metadata editor window that allows 'all metadata' editing
Possible to set different metadata values for each track in Audio CD Ripper (e.g. Comment, Cover Art, WWW an be different for each track)
New local disc database
All metadata, all pictures, are saved
Backward (read) compatible with the old local database
Improved picture handling
Faster thumbnail generation
Less memory usage
Lossless JPEG rotation
Opus Codec v1.1.2
Default ID3V2 tag is now set to ID3V2.3 Unicode
General performance improvements
Few user interface improvements

3.1.7

Bugfix: Fixed the Internet metadata query, that got broken in the previous update (32-bit version only, C++ compiler bug)

3.1.6

Bugfix: Drive Spin Up now working definitely
Read CD-Text character conversion to Unicode, so non-latin CD-Text is displayed correctly (e.g. Greek, Japan, Chinese, Russian)
Read TOTALTRACKS / TOTALDISCS metadata if the standard TRACKTOTAL / DISCTOTAL does not exist (FLAC, Opus, Vorbis)
Improved Audio Converter logic on Overwrite / Skip existing files
Minor user interface improvements
Software is now signed with SHA-256 algorithm for enhanced security
Finnish, Spanish, Portugues, Japanese, Hungarian, Polish language updates

3.1.5 update (1 Jan 2016)

Software signed with SHA256 algorithm for maximum security per Microsoft Code Signing Guidelines

3.1.5

Opus Codec v1.1.1
General performance improvements
Minor user interface improvements
French, Italian, Turkish language updates

3.1.4

Bug fix (previous update had an issue with shell explorer view)

3.1.3

Updated Windows Explorer components
- · Improved Windows 10 support
- · Improved Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP shell folder layout
- · Support for network browse, drag n drop files from network
- Support for conversion from fragmented M4A/AAC files
- Improved user interface layout
- Improved user interface icons
- Improved Audio CD Ripper's CD player

3.1.1 build 2

Enabled disc label and filename editing in Disc Burner / MP3 Disc & Data Disc

3.1.1

File paths are no longer limited to 260 characters (old Windows MAX_PATH limit). Long file paths up to 32767 characters are now supported.
Vorbis codec updated to v1.3.5
WavPack codec updated to v4.75.0
Fixed memory access bug in metadata query (may have caused freeze or crash during metadata query)
Freedb disc database entries that have " - " separator in all freedb titles are no longer detected as compilation discs and therefore are correctly read from the freedb database
Local disc database entries that have " - " separator in all track title fields are no longer detected as compilation discs and therefore are correctly read from the local database
Disc Number, Total Discs, Publisher, Compilation metadatas are now correctly assigned when single file + cue sheet is added to the audio converter
Year metadata is now read from ID3V2.4 (UTF8) tagged WAV and AIFF files
Improved Windows DPI awareness, no longer blurred text when Windows DPI scaling is in use

3.1.1 build 2

Enabled disc label and filename editing in Disc Burner / MP3 Disc & Data Disc

3.1.1

File paths are no longer limited to 260 characters (old Windows MAX_PATH limit). Long file paths up to 32767 characters are now supported.
Vorbis codec updated to v1.3.5
WavPack codec updated to v4.75.0
Fixed memory access bug in metadata query (may have caused freeze or crash during metadata query)
Freedb disc database entries that have " - " separator in all freedb titles are no longer detected as compilation discs and therefore are correctly read from the freedb database
Local disc database entries that have " - " separator in all track title fields are no longer detected as compilation discs and therefore are correctly read from the local database
Disc Number, Total Discs, Publisher, Compilation metadatas are now correctly assigned when single file + cue sheet is added to the audio converter
Year metadata is now read from ID3V2.4 (UTF8) tagged WAV and AIFF files
Improved Windows DPI awareness, no longer blurred text when Windows DPI scaling is in use

3.1

Fixed the "Out of range" error that occured on startup/shutdown when Windows Explorer style controls were hidden
Fixed the file list view "list" mode filename field autosizing
Fixed the tab order of action buttons
Language updates: Korean, Romanian

3.0.9

Better fix for the file list view bug :)
File list view now remembers the filename field width
Language updates: Italian

3.0.8

File/folder view bug fix (may have caused random Access Violation error)
Language updates: Swedish, Slovak

3.0.7

Shell folder view is now auto-refreshed correctly (when folder/file rename/delete/move happens)
Shell folder and file views now correctly support F2 shortcut button for renaming a file/folder
Performance improvements for shell views
Added cover art resize to 600x600
Language updates: Estonian, Korean

3.0.6

Very Important Bugfix: Bug in CD-DA read cache buffer in v3.0.5 fixed. Symptom was garbled audio in ripped audio files. It was a human error, using wrong type of synchronization method with the cache buffer.
Language updates: Russian

3.0.5

Fixed the problem where dropdown menus for Rip, Convert, and Metadata buttons were not available in Windows XP
Improved device access layer performance (removed unnecessary thread synchronization objects and performed optimizations)
Faster Pre-Gaps, ISRC, Pre-Emphasis detection
Faster CD ripping
Faster disc burning
Faster multithreaded audio file format conversion
General multithread performance improvements
Improved CD ripping begin speed (drive will immediately accelerate to the desired speed, device dependent)
Composer metadata fields are now saved/loaded to/from the local database
Language updates: Italian, Hungarian, Greek

3.0.4

Updated device access layer, improved performance
Fixed .aac and .m4b Dolby AAC formats (by adding the two DLLs that should have been included with the v3.0.3 installer)
Language updates: German, Dutch, Romanian

3.0.3 build 2

Fixed .aac and .m4b Dolby AAC formats (by adding the two DLLs that should have been included with the original v3.0.3 installer).
Language updates: Dutch

3.0.3

Updated AAC encoders
As Dolby discontinued Dolby Pulse format, it's now removed, but added is the high quality Dolby AAC / HE AAC encoder. Dolby AAC / HE AAC encoder provides the best low bitrate audio quality for HE AAC v1/v2
Automatic update check setting is now correctly saved in Settings
Copy to clipboard functionality in Audio CD Ripper restored
Language updates: Spanish, Turkish

3.0.2 build 2

Automatic update check setting is now correctly saved in Settings
Language updates: Turkish

3.0.2

Improved user interface scaling with Windows large fonts / upscaling
Bugfix: Fixed small black marks in the user interface that appeared with some display drivers
Bugfix: Fixed auto read CD-Text not setting the Album Artist and Album field
Language updates: Japanese

3.0.1

Audio CD Ripper: CTRL+A now selects all tracks for metadata editing
Installer: Auto-close software before installing, don't proceed with the installation if the EZ CD is still running
Bugfix: Audio CD Ripper - Metadata edit fields were not resized correctly in metadata left/right mode when the metadata panel was resized
Bugfix: Audio CD Ripper - Correctly detects and fixes invalid start time for the first track (very rare CDs with invalid TOC)
Bugfix: Fixed the problem where program crashed when the Main window was closed while Converter or Ripper window was still open
Language updates: French, Italian, German, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian

3.0

Initial release.
New user interface. New features. New codecs.

2.8.2

Bugfix in Audio Converter's paste cover art function
Now accepts Cue Sheet images that are longer than 99 minutes

2.8.1

Improved Cover Art thumbnails quality on Windows XP, Vista without true color display mode
Improved explorer folder view on XP, Vista
Language file updates

2.8

Cover Art thumbnail image quality improvements
Cover Art resize image quality improvements
Now uses high quality Lanczos image resampling algorithm for Cover Art thumbnails and resizing
Added Cover Art resize to 1000x1000 (in addition to already existing 500x500, and 300x300)
Updated Monkey's Audio codec to 4.13. Maximum filesize is now 4GB (previously 2GB)
Ripping Log now shows the FLAC 1.3.1 version number correctly (it was previously shown as 1.3.0 althought the actual codec was 1.3.1)
Does not auto-separate Track Artist / Track Title freedb entries that have ": " in the freedb TTITLEN field, because it mistakenly separated some classical album entries (separation is auto-made when TTITLEN has " - " or " / ")
Improved M4A file format compatibility. Moved "Xtra" (metadata) atom after "meta" atom, because Pioneer hardware players were not able to read metadata if the "Xtra" atom was preceding "meta" atom
Improved M4A file format. Don't write empty values to "Xtra" atom. (Rating, Publisher, URL)
Added more color to the top main panel because it was too grey ;)
Minor updates to the user interface

2.7

New! Cover Art downloader improvement - download Cover Art from GD3 and MusicBrainz
New! Added (optional) Cue Sheet properties : GENRE, DATE, DISCID, MBDISCID, TOC, and COMMENT
Update! FLAC, Vorbis, Opus metadata changes
- Total tracks written to TRACKTOTAL instead of TRACKNUMBER X/Y
- Total discs written to DISCTOTAL instead of DISCNUMBER X/Y
Update! LibOgg 1.3.2 updated to FLAC, Vorbis, and Opus codecs
- Update! Improved Internet download library (stability improvements on connection errors)

2.6

Improved cover art user interface
Other minor user interface improvements
Fixed broken "Make Disc Image" from Data/DVD Video disc
Updated language files

2.5

Bug fixes and general improvements.
Bugfix: Burning status window was not shown when burning an ISO image
Bugfix: (Invalid) Cue Sheet (.cue) with "MODEx/2xxx" data track now works
Bugfix: ALAC APE OPUS WAVPACK decoder crashed if the output file was read-only
Improved pre-gap detection with extra data checks (to fix possible problems with devices that return invalid subcode data)
Added missing language translations

2.4

FLAC v1.3.1 codec update; performance improvements.
Improved pre-gap detection to handle possible data errors better.
Updated korean language.

2.3.5

Fixed two bugs in audio CD pre-gap detection. Bugs may have caused crash or freeze of the program when detecting pre-gaps.

2.3.4

Automatic pre-gap detection now OFF by default. It is needed only when creating a perfect disc image with Cue Sheet option enabled (single-file or multi-file). Can be turned ON from Options.
Bugfix: Audio CD Ripper / Make Disc Image crashed after ripping if LOG file creation option was enabled

2.3.3

Added friendly names and expected bitrates for MP3 & AAC VBR output formats
Fixed bug in manual entering of metadata in Audio CD Ripper
Fixed two other minor bugs in Audio CD Ripper user interface
Updated Catalan language

2.3.2

Disc Burner / Audio CD: Improved CD-Text reading from Cue Sheet (.cue). If the Cue Sheet (.cue) doesn't have CD-Text, it is read from the audio file metadata instead
Disc Burner / Audio CD / Copy disc information to Clipboard: Track lengths now correct when there is a Cue Sheet (.cue) in the audio CD layout
Audio CD Ripper: Duplicate ReplayGain AlbumGain and AlbumPeak values bug fixed (happened only when ReplayGain calculation was enabled)
Audio CD Ripper: Duplicate PERFORMER field in Cue Sheet (.cue) TRACK block bug fixed (happened only when any of the Track Artists was different to Album Artist)
Updated Japanese language

2.3.1

Disc Burner / Audio CD: Lengths of the tracks were wrong in new Audio CD layout when the files were other than 44100 Hz sample rate
Bugfix: Apple Lossless .m4a bit depth was not displayed in Audio Converter list
Language updates: Polish, Spanish, Estonian, Slovak, Russian, French, Croatian, Italian, Turkish, Romanian, Greek, German

2.3.0

Audio CD Ripper: Create multi-file Cue Sheets
Audio CD Ripper: Support for HTOA (Hidden Track One Audio)
Audio CD Ripper: Read disc catalog and ISRCs (used in Disc Image / Cue Sheet)
Audio CD Ripper: Pre-gap detection (used in Disc Image / Cue Sheet)
Disc Burner / Audio CD: Support all Cue Sheet variants
Disc Burner / Audio CD: Faster CD layout editing (no need to scan the files)
Disc Burner / Audio CD: Burning thread partially rewritten, more robust
Bugfix: FLAC modified time correctly set when metadata is updated (previously modified time was not changed)
User interface improvements
- Other minor improvements

2.2.2

Improved the shell folder view
Updated Simplified Chinese, Polish, Greek, Spanish, and Catalan language files

2.2.1 - 28 Sep 2014

Updated Polish language file

2.2.1

FIX for the "file read error" while trying to burn an Audio CD (removal of the debug code was forgotten) Ooops
Updated Dutch, Slovenian, French, Russian, and German language files

2.2

User interface improvements
- Improved manual entering of disc information
- Improved visuality
- ID3V2 comment field bug fixed
- Conversion from FLV, wrong playback speed problem fixed
File format options
- Compatibility format for WAV (some old programs expect certain order of WAV/RIFF headers)
- Settings for MP3, AAC ID3V2 gapless playback information
- Settings for M4A/AAC/HEAAC gapless playback information
New Shell Browser component (bugs fixed)

2.1.7

More AAC VBR quality options, now 1-8, added higher bitrate VBR encoding
Fixed a bug in AAC LC format detector (showed sample rates <= 24000 wrong)

2.1.6

New AAC encoder (FhG FDK AAC)
Variable Bitrate (VBR) encoding for AAC

2.1.5

Added MP3 compressed WAV output format (per user requests)
Bugfix for compressed WAV decoder

2.1.4

New multilanguage installer
Language updates
- Improved AAC format detection, mono AAC is now converted to mono
Bugfix: Ripping to Ogg Vorbis now works in 32-bit version

2.1.3

Improved Internet metadata download (possible to request all services simultaneously)
Internet metadata download in Audio Converter (can retrieve metadata for files)
MusicBrainz service updated; more accurate results
Cover art download from MusicBrainz service
Cover art can be resized

2.1.2

Bug fix for sample rate converter (updated in v2.1.0). Insufficient sample rate conversion buffer caused program to crash in the end of a track ripping or file conversion under certain circumstances.

2.1.1

Ripping log

2.1

Gapless support for .m4a/AAC (iPhone/iPad/iPod compatible)
Gapless support for .aac/AAC
Improved gapless support for .mp3 (now iPhone/iPad/iPod compatible)
Gapless samplerate conversion
All FLAC compression levels are included
More information about the audio files in Audio Converter (length in ms, gapless, format, samples)
Track number in Audio CD Burner
Can change track numbers in Audio CD Ripper
UPPERCASE/lowercase/Sentence case/Title Case for Audio Converter & Audio CD Burner
Other minor user interface improvements
Bugfix: Gapless bugfix for Opus encoder
Bugfix: Read Year-tag from ID3V2.4

2.0.7

M4A format reading and writing performance significantly improved
Fixed a multithread deadlock bug in treeview ui component
- Caused conversion routine to freeze at some point
- May have caused ui to freeze when manually entering metadata
- May have caused ui to freeze when retrieving metadata from Internet
- May have caused CD ripping to freeze
- May have caused other program freezes

2.0.6

WavPack metadata reader now works with old processors (without SSE)
Paste cover art in Audio Converter's popup-menu now enabled as it should have been

2.0.5

Vorbis 1.3.4 codec
Bugfix for MP3 header detection (sometimes wrong samplerate was detected, resulting in wrong playback rate when converted from MP3)
New Windows Explorer view controls (bugs fixed)
- Minor change in Audio Converter cover art box (multi-selection of different images now alphablended)
- Updated language files

2.0.4

Fixed a bug that caused program to crash when adding files/folders to MP3 disc and Data disc layouts

2.0.3

Fixed a bug in Joliet filesystem (MP3 CD and Data CD)

2.0.2

Fixed drag n drop bug in Disc Burner (64-bit)
Improved user interface scaling on high DPI screen modes

2.0.1

Burning speed selection fixed
Language file updates

2.0

UI refresh
Opus 1.1 codec update
Save files to ISO image in Disc Burner
Improvements to overall quality

1.3.4

Wavpack 4.70.0 codec update
Updated Windows Explorer style components (bugs fixed)
Added drive letters for easier identifying of drives

1.3.3

Certified for Windows 8.1
Support for converting audio from WebM videos
Bugfix for handling very long file paths
Bugfix for reading pre-defined genres from M4A files

1.3.2

New Apple Lossless decoder. Better handling of corrupt ALAC files. Faster.
M4A format metadata (Rating, Publisher, URL) now compatible with Windows Explorer & Windows Media Player

1.3.1

Bug fix for the mistake where Audio Converter's 'Single File' mode was always enabled

1.3

Monkey's Audio 4.12 codec
Opus 1.0.3 codec
Single File mode in Audio Converter (combine multiple files into one)
Support for 64-bit WAV (RF64)
Allow ReplayGain calculation in Single File output modes
User interface improvements
- Bugfix for ripper not showing the number of failed tracks
- Can update metadata of >2GB .MP3 and .AAC files
- Can convert from >2GB .MP3 and .AAC files
- Opus format improvements (faster loading, album gain)

1.2.5

Apple Lossless (ALAC) encoder fixed
Audio Converter no longer crashes with long output paths
Amazon Cover Art now works in Japanese (and other non-Latin languages)
WMA decoder now correctly supports high-resolution multichannel audio
Updated swedish language

1.2.3

Fixed the bug where cover art was not read from FLAC files in Audio Converter (got broken in v1.2.1 update)
Updated russian language

1.2.2

Changed Cover Art / Paste function to get JPEG (rather than PNG) format from Clipboard and Internet Explorer
Fixed the bug in 64-bit version where doing drag 'n' drop in Disc Burner crashed the program
Updated finnish, japanese, and slovak languages

1.2.1

Updated FLAC codec (FLAC 1.3.0 & LibOgg 1.3.1)
Updated Opus codec (LibOgg 1.3.1)
Updated Ogg Vorbis codec (LibOgg 1.3.1)
Fixed metadata-panel wrong font problem in Windows XP
Updated romanian, german, greek, italian, korean, polish, and french languages

1.2

Updated Dolby AAC / HE AAC / Pulse encoder
Improved user interface

1.1

Improved support for converting audio from video files
Improved multichannel downmixing
General performance improvements

1.0.8

Fixed the problem where freedb query not populating Artist/Album field correctly
Updated shell extensions
Updated shell browser components

1.0.7

Fixed minor issues in 64-bit version

1.0.6

Fixed the bug where 64-bit version crashed in conversion when ReplayGain was enabled

1.0.5

64-bit version

1.0.4

Fixed the bug where the file conversion would halt if there were folders in the list, all items were selected and 'Remove converted files from the list' option was enabled
Corrected wrong font in folder-view when Windows Large Fonts setting was enabled

1.0.3

Enabled Make Disc Image feature that got accidentally disabled by previous updates
Enabled on-click quick edit mode for track & file lists

1.0.2

Opus Codec 1.0.2 update
User interface tuning
Updated Finnish, Swedish, and Japanese languages

1.0.1

Fixed font-problem in bottom metadata field in Windows XP
Fixed non-working Metadata Editor / Rename files function
Updated language files for Slovak, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Hungarian, and Romanian

1.0

Initial release