- Quick specs
- 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: April 21, 2009
- Total Downloads: 16,488,449
- Downloads last week: 3,558
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A newer version of dBpoweramp Music Converter is available.
(Download doesn't provide access to previous versions of this program.)
- 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.
Version 13.2 has FLAC codec included as standard, is default codec for CD Ripper and internal update to allow 'Front Cover Art' as default.
What's new in this version:
Version 13.2 has FLAC codec included as standard, is default codec for CD Ripper and internal update to allow 'Front Cover Art' as default.
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User reviews of dBpoweramp Music Converter 13.2
- Average user rating: 3.3 stars out of 824 votes
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Version: dBpoweramp Music Converter 13.2
Pros: Was not able to convert my files at all.
Cons: Crashes frequently.
Summary: Dont download
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Version: dBpoweramp Music Converter 13.2
"Too bad it couldn't do 1 simple conversion to MP3"
Pros: Unfortunately couldn't come up with any because I was not able to get the first file converted using dBPoweramp
Cons: I think it says all you need to know when you can't get the first file convereted that you try. Convert attempt from mp4 to mp3 failed w/dBPoweramp but worked with a competing program.
Summary: I really wanted to like this thing from what I had read about it but after several failed attempts to convert an mp4 file to mp3 format I gave up. I got this file converted on the first try using Easy CD-DA Extractor so there's no excuse fro dBPowe... read more >>
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Version: dBpoweramp Music Converter 13.2
Pros: fast conversion
Cons: none found yet
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: dBpoweramp Music Converter 13.2
Pros: Tried it and had hard time in converting the files. Program keeps crashing nearly with all iTunes files.
Cons: Not worth the money.
Summary: This program needs to get bugs sorted out.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: dBpoweramp Music Converter 13.2
"Best Meta-Data, Secure Rips, and FAST"
Pros: uses 4 meta-data providers to get the best tags for your music, uses accuraterip and secure algorithms, and is the fastest secure ripper! It the best CD ripper available!
Cons: no significant problems. This is a very polished program.
Summary: My favorite feature is PerfectMeta. dBpoweramp gets meta-data (song titles and album info) from 4 different data bases, compares the information and corrects it to come up with better meta-data then available from any 1 provider.
It also ... read more >> - See all 5 user reviews Write review
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