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- Price: Free to try (21-day trial); $24.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 05, 2009
- Total Downloads: 16,520,783
- Downloads last week: 4,206
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 824 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This mostly standard audio utility simply converts files and rips CDs, but it works without a hitch. dBpoweramp Music Converter has separate interfaces for extracting audio from discs and batch converting tunes. In our tests, the program showed good speed. It can even rip some protected audio CDs and includes a basic player.
It queries CD information from the Web and can automatically create subfolders and name tracks. To keep the download size small, it only includes MP3 (LAME) and WAV codecs, though you can easily download and install additional components from the publisher's site. Similar to other utilities in this genre, dBpowerAmp Music Converter lets you determine the audio quality of your new files, though it also offers an ample number of presets.
Also, unlike some competing programs, this demo will let you rip or transform as many files as you like for a full month. Most people who rip and convert audio files occasionally will find something to like about dBpowerAmp Music Converter, particularly novices.
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Publisher's description
From Illustrate :dBpoweramp stands-out when Ripping Audio CD's and Converting Audio Files. CD Ripping: it is vital to rip fast, error free and have quality metadata (track titles). CD Ripper rips as fast your drive is able. Secure Ripping (Error Free) is our forte: dBpoweramp is regarded as the securest of the secure, not surprising from the inventors of AccurateRip. Finally the icing on the cake: PerfectMeta uses 4 Internet metadata providers simultaneously, not just one premium, but two: All Media Guide and GD3, in addition to MusicBrainz and freedb, allowing any errors, such as spelling mistakes to be corrected.
Convert effortlessly between audio formats whilst preserving ID tags and Album Art. Practically every audio type is supported, including mp3, mp4, m4a (iPod & iTunes), Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Apple Lossless and FLAC (from Codec Central), multi-CPU encoding uses all available cores. A broad range of DSP effects including ReplayGain Normalization, Graphic EQ.
What's new in this version:
Version 13.3 added new options, performance improved, and includes bug fixes.
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Version: dBpoweramp Music Converter 13.3
"dbpoweramp music converter crashed - can't install"
Pros: need to convert mpga ringtone files. don't want to download from malware codec sites.
Cons: download went fine. ran installer and a dos command line window popped up and crapped out. can't install program. looked for partial install on system - nothing there.
anyone else have this problem? running xpsp3 with all patches.Summary: executable doesn't seem to be corrupted but installer crashed and you can't install the product right out of the box.
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Version: dBpoweramp Music Converter 13.3
"Brilliant utility for audio conversion"
Pros: It is very straightforward to use, with an intuitive interface lacking clutter. In operation it is very quick, and the results are generally excellent, giving a range of options for exporting and saving converted files. Lots of associated codecs.
Cons: For my purposes it fulfills what I need. The only gripe I have is that it is not always clear which of the available linked utilities are available or necessary, but this is really a minor gripe.
Summary: An excellent utility for converting most audio files into different formats. Quick in operation, easy to use, and uncluttered. It is also very cheap for what it can offer.
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