EZ CD Audio Converter

What's new in this version:

EZ CD Audio Converter 2024.8.12.1
- General code improvements providing improved stability and performance
- Minor UI improvements
- Added installer option for creating desktop shortcut
- Always use WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE when bits per sample > 16-bit [wav w64] for compatibility with the legacy WAVE/RIFF specification
- Disabled support for freedb due privacy issues (current freedb service provider 'gnudb' demands users to give their actual email addresses and the service sends spam data within metadata if not agreed)


EZ CD Audio Converter 2024.6.28
- New Titanium theme
- Updated Blue theme
- Updated DTS encoder
- Updated Monkey's Audio Codec 10.73
- Enabled 'Insane' Compression Level that was previously disabled
- Fixed: Saving metadata to MPEG-4 ISO FF 'DASH' format [ .m4a streaming format ]
- Recompiled everything with the latest Microsoft Visual C++ and Intel OneApi C++ compilers for performance benefits


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.5.3.1
- Change log not available for this version


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.5.3.0
- Freedb protocol update
- Opus 1.5.2 codec update
- FFMPEG 7.0 codecs update
- Automatic 'Size All Columns to Fit' option
- Fixed: 'Size Column To Fit' did not apply to the correct column if the default column order was altered


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.5.2.0
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)


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.5.1.1
- 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


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.5.0.1
- 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


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.4.1.1
- Change log not available for this version


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.4.1.0
- Fixed manual MusicBrainz / Discogs / GD3 metadata search


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.4.0.1
- 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)


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.3.1.1
- 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)


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.3.0.1
- 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


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.2.1.1
Improved Audio Converter metadata editing features:
- Copy/Paste metadata tags and pictures from a file to file(s)
- Assign metadata from filenames and filepaths
- Auto-number files' track number metadata
- Single-click clear metadata of selected files

- Rearranged Filenames Preview window
- 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


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.2.0.1
Improved output filename templates:
- Added tags to specify number of leading zeros for numerical values such as and
- Added (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


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.1.1.1
Fixed:
- FLAC 1.4.3 encoder wrote old vendor string (libFLAC 1.4.2) into the encoded audio files
- xHE-AAC encoder failed to encode low volume audio files


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.1.0.2
- Change log not available for this version


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.1.0
Updated:
- Silence Removal DSP with an option for threshold dB or digital silence
- integrated File Explorer components
- FLAC 1.4.3 Codec
- Monkey's Audio [APE] 10.18 Codec
- Exhale 1.2.0.1 Extended HE-AAC encoder

Fixed:
- Bugfix: 24-bit DTS was decoded in wrong format resulting in an invalid output file


EZ CD Audio Converter 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


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.0.2.1
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 metadata: Always write Year / Date / Text to TYER frame for compatibility reasons (v11.0.0/1 used TYER+TDAT frames, older versions < v11.0 use TYER frame) (support reading of TYER+TDAT frames and TYER frame in any format)
- Language updates
- It was requested to (re)add cut/copy/paste/clear album art buttons to the album art popup. It was considered and tested. But we came to the conclusion that it is better that these functions are behind the right-click popup menu.
- The editing mode of the track and file lists are optimized for easier selection of items in v11. If you wish to have the classic behaviour with one-click edit you can turn on the Quick Edit mode in Settings / General / User interface.
- The UPPERCASE/lower case/Sentence case/Title Case functions work differently in v11. You must select the tracks / files and right-click on the column you want to modify. The case-functions are also included in metadata panel fields.


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.0.1.1
- Change log not available for this version


EZ CD Audio Converter 11.0.0.1
- 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 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


EZ CD Audio Converter 10.3.0.1
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


EZ CD Audio Converter 10.2.1.1
- FLAC 1.4.1 codec update
- LAME MP3 encoder 3.101 encoder update and performance improvements
- Monkey's Audio [APE] 8.92 codec update
- Updated the integrated File Explorer component with stability and visibility 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: The last 4 columns in audio converter file list may have been automatically incorrectly resized (in the previous 10.2 version only)
- Bugfix: Audio CD Ripper status window was missing *album*/loudness/gain/peak (many last versions)
- Bugfix: 2nd (multichannel) TOC was not read from SACD ISO if the file extension [.iso] was not in lowercase (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 (very long time)
- Other minor improvements


EZ CD Audio Converter 10.2.0.1
Codec updates: FLAC 1.4.0, Monkey's Audio 8.65, AC-3 Encoder [FFMPEG 5.1.1], FFMPEG 5.1.1, Exhale Extended HE-AAC 1.1.9.1
- 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)
- Audio CD burning normalization setting as LUFS (EBU R 128)
- Updated EBU R 128 loudness scanner with performance improvements
- Improved loading of (invalid) Cue Sheet [.cue] files
- Improved Cue Sheet [.cue] error reporting
- Improved support for multi-file Cue Sheet [.cue] files (e.g. Vinyl; one file per multiple tracks per side A/B)
- Bugfix: SACD ISO decoder failed to seek over 4GB {Integer overflow} (tracks with start position >4GB were not extracted correctly)


EZ CD Audio Converter 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)


EZ CD Audio Converter 10.1.1.1
- 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