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There are two main dBpoweramp products that Illustrate has released, with many additional add-ons available for download as well as a couple of other related pieces of software. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ...

• dBpoweramp Audio Player (dAP)
• dBpoweramp Music Converter (dMC)

dMC is integrated into dAP, but neither depends on the other and each can function without the other's help.

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Products

dBpoweramp Audio Player (dAP)

dBpoweramp Audio Player was created as a means to promote dMC(dBpoweramp Music Converter), although it has grown quite a bit since.

It's based on a music collection that is being randomly played, and at any moment you can Enqueue any number of songs after the currently playing one. dAP Also features freeform skins, gapless playback, an auto equalizer, previously-played songs list, most played list, newest list and uses minimal system resources. For other uses, see Music (disambiguation). ...

dBpoweramp Music Converter (dMC)

The dBpoweramp series originally started with the Music Converter, a program designed to convert any audio file into any format.

dMC features include:

• Rip digitally record audio CDs (with CD Ripper and AccurateRip [1] support)
• Convert audio files to and from several audio formats. Some supported formats include: mp3, mp4, m4a, Windows Media Audio (WMA), Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Monkeys Audio, FLAC, Apple Lossless (ALAC)
• Windows Shell Integration popup info tips, audio properties, columns, edit ID-Tags
• DSP Effects such as Volume Normalize, or Graphic EQ
• Supports using FreeDB while ripping CDs. Titles are added automatically if you are online at the time.

dMC is available in three versions[2]; Free, PowerPack & mp3 License, and Reference[3]. The Reference version was introduced on Feb 1, 2007 with the release of R12. R12 includes Exact Audio Copy.

In a test report issued by dBpoweramp (i.e., Illustrate) [4], dBpoweramp outperformed Exact Audio Copy (EAC). Exact Audio Copy, or often simply EAC, is a CD ripping program for Microsoft Windows. ...

Release R12 also includes All Media Guide lookups for metadata retrieval, including album art.

Codecs

All codecs are written for the program so there can't be any errors in importing codecs from other programs. The dBpowerAMP products come already equipped with the mp3 and wav codecs. With the appropriate codecs installed, dBpowerAMP can automatically recognize, play and manipulate the following extensions: A codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... WAV (or WAVE), short for Waveform audio format, is a Microsoft and IBM audio file format standard for storing audio on PCs. ...

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Note: With the release of dMC r12, many codec formats have not been added yet. The most popular codecs are being released first, with all former codecs being supported by r12 eventually.

In addition any command line external codec can be configured for use with dMC. Also, many Winamp codecs can be used to allow dMC to decode other, non-supported files when used with the dMC Winamp Input Decoder codec. A command line interface or CLI is a method of interacting with a computer by giving it lines of textual commands (that is, a sequence of characters) either from keyboard input or from a script. ... A codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. ... Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. ...

This is not a definitive list; you can check Codec Central for official updates.

Development

Current betas:

• dAP release 3 beta 6
• dMC r12.3
• dBpoweramp CD Ripper r3
• Beta Codecs for r12
  • DirectShow Decoder
  • Updated m4a and ALAC encoders that support album art
  • Shorten
  • OptimFROG
  • Speex
  • TTA
  • FLAC and Ogg Vorbis
  • Updated CLI Encoder
  • Length Split utility codec
  • Channel Split utility codec
  • ID Tag Update utility codec

Illustrate's products are always in development in one form or another. dAP has many bugfixes in its release 3 beta 6 and is regarded as stable. It is still beta due to the developer (Spoon) still wanting work done on it before making it a final release.

Codecs are typically updated when new versions come out, but typically a final non-beta version of the codec must be released before an update for dMC is released. Also, new codecs for dBpowerAMP are beta tested before being fully released.

For all beta versions, the dBpoweramp forums have a beta section. Typically, anyone is allowed to beta test all Illustrate products.

See also

List of audio conversion software Audio conversion software converts audio from one form into another (for example, from FLAC into MP3). ...

External links

• dBpoweramp Official Site
• Spoons Audio Guide
• Comparison of the versions of dMC