Major Changes

CD Ripper is enhanced by the addition of 3 new meta data providers (GD3, MusicBrainz & TrackType), GD3 offers album art up to 500x500 pixels. These new providers allowed for the creation of PerfectMeta™. Note-worthy additions:

• CD Ripper is able to scan / paste / load album art files
• HTOA ripping (hidden first track ripping),
• Defective by design Ripping,
• Added 'Track Technical' column will show if CD is HDCD (install DSP Effects to rip as 24 bit), or has Pre-Emphasis set
• Wave: Compatible with 'id3 ' chunk ID Tags

PerfectMeta™

PerfectMeta™ uses 4 Internet meta data providers simultaneously, this allows any inevitable errors, such as spelling mistakes to be self corrected. In addition, there are 100's of internal rule sets to ensure that the metadata returned is consistent across discs & providers. Last year Illustrate were proud and confident R12 issued in a new era of secure-rippers (securest of the secure), R13 offers the best metadata solution obtainable today.

Reference R13 also includes: CD Writer and Batch Ripper. CD Writer allows for burning of audio CDs, whilst Batch Ripper is designed for those with large collections to rip (and commercial Ripping houses).

Download:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/download.htm

Change Log:

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/Version-Changes-DMC.htm

Wow, thanks for the update. Does this version of dBpowerAMP allow us to update the version of Lame being used?

Please PLEASE tell me there's cuesheet support...

Lame.exe we supply is just a standard one, but there have been reports of Lame 3.98b not working, no investiagtion into why has been done.

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Work is about to start on Cue Sheets and AccurateRip2.

I hope AR2 takes priority over cue sheets personally. Hopefully the AR2 DB will populate quickly with batch rippers using dBpoweramp.

Congrats Spoon, I know it's been tons of hard work.

-brendan

I have 2 thread over at dbpoweramp regarding the perfect meta. I am trying to get spoon to make some tweaks in it.

PerfectMeta: Meta-Data Formating Suggestions
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?p=77937
-I think to much weight has been placed on the AMG results and would like some suggestions to help improve the meta-data output


PerfectMeta Gen Discussion:
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=16750
-requests and discussion for PerfectMeta, such as request for more/other meta providers such as discogs and simultaneus polling of the multiple freeDB entries, not just one random one.

sounds good

Thanks a lot Spoon, been a fan of this for quite a few years now

Will cue sheets be added at the "Multi Encoder" level? I'd like to rip a FLAC image and AAC tracks. I do this today with EAC and REACT 2 but seems development of REACT 2 is at a standstill. If dBpoweramp can do this I'm sold.

Will there be support for embedded cue sheets?

I assume the HDCD DSP is Christopher Keys' hdcd.exe?

>Will cue sheets be added at the "Multi Encoder" level?

It is difficult to say at this time.

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HDCD is Chris's program (it says so in the DSP effect license agreement).

Any chance on an update with the LAME 3.98 final codec?

Or is this something I could swap in myself? (Not very code savvy, copy and paste is my method haha)

Lame 3.98 is in the R13.1 beta (see the beta section of dbpoweramp's forum).

Any news about my problem with the Samsung SATA ODD?

Generally speaking, I'm not particularly apprehensive when it comes to beta versions...
Not with dBpoweramp though (one of the few exceptions justifying the rule).
Last time I installed a *not-fully-tested final build*, problems occurred (that Windows Explorer feature when you hover over audio files stopped responding etc)
It wasn't irreversible, but it took me some time to sort things out.

That's why I'm asking for a workaround, say manually extracting the new LAME v3.98 dll in the \dbpoweramp\encoder folder overwriting the old "mp3 (Lame).dll"
Perhaps you could upload it separately in the *Codec Central*...

Thank you.

R13.1 beta is mainly bug fixes, so is more stable than R13... (see the change log in the beta section).

Please forgive my ignorance, but with dBpoweramp is it possible to rip to multiple formats at the same time?

I used EAC and REACT2 to rip my collection to both flac and mp3 (individual tracks), but now I have a new computer with no ripping software yet and am thinking about trying dBpoweramp instead since I've heard so many great things about it.

- p

Yup, there's a multi-encoder codec, third from the bottom here:

http://dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-utility.htm

-brendan

Thanks brendan.