Dbpoweramp
dBpoweramp
it can rip AAC Plus, AAC at 400kbps. these are the best compression rips. flac, wav and lossless (dbpoweramp will rip these too and will convert any file) are better but their huge file size defeats the purpose of compression. it rip album art and name it folder.jpg. this is useful for making media player srecognize album art that in the folder if it doesn't find any on the web
try it. you will like it. especially if you are an audiophile
I would have posted this months ago, but it took me awhile to figure out how to install the free nero AAC codec as I don't work with command prompt or linux. when dbpoweramp open a popup tell you that a seperate componeent must be installed from nerodigital.com the read the help file. it will confuse the heck out of you. I decided today that I would leave until I figure out their help file.
would you understand this? anyway I figure out that it was html. I thought that it was code. so I install netscape 7.2 to us it free web page composer and paste it html code then click normal and got this
here is the zip file
Nero – AAC Codec Code:
dBpoweramp aac Encoder
IMPORTANT: Follow 'Installing Nero AAC Codec' Instructions below
This aac encoder encodes 'raw' Advanced Audio Compression files. Check player compatibility before using this codec, as aac is normally found inside a .m4a or .mp4 container, dBpoweramp has a separate .m4a codec.
Supported by this Codec
* Encoding: Yes [.aac ]
* Multi-processor Encoding: Yes (with dBpoweramp reference)
* Decoding: No (install m4a codec to read .aac)
* ID Tag Reading: Yes [APE v2, ID3v1, ID3v2] ** requires m4a codec
* ID Tag Writing: Yes [APE v2, ID3v1, ID3v2] ** requires m4a codec
* Unicode Tagging: Yes
* Supports Album Art: Yes
* Gapless Encoding & Decoding: No
* Explorer Audio Popup Information: Yes
* Explorer Columns: Yes
* Unicode Filenames: Yes
Compatibility
Windows 98 or newer, dBpoweramp R12 or newer required.
Installing Nero AAC Codec
This codec relies on the Nero Digital AAC encoder, it can be downloaded only from Nero directly:
Installation Instructions:
1) download the Nero codec Zip package from:
http://www.nero.com/nerodigital/eng/Nero_Digital_Audio.html
2) Open the zip file (by double clicking on it) and open the folder win32, select neroAacEnc and copy (Edit menu >> Copy). Open a new explorer window, it is important the old zip window is left open (press Windows Key + E) and browse to:
C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp\encoder\AAC (Advanced Audio Compression)\
In the above folder select (Edit menu >> Paste). After extracting the following files should be present in the above folder:
encoder Text Document
mp4creator Application
Nero Bitmap Image
neroAacEnc Application
toaac Windows Batch File
AAC (Advanced Audio Compression) Compression Options
There are three different encoding modes: Quality based variable bit-rate encoding (with an estimated bitrate), CBR constant bit-rate and Average bit-rate that creates files with roughly the specified bit-rate.
Depending upon the bit rate (especially lower ones) the encoder will auto-choose a HE or HE v2 profile, if your portable player cannot play such choose Force LC AAC.
ID Tags
There exists no standard for writing ID tags to .aac files, dBpoweramp by default will write an APE v2 tag, ID3v2 or ID3v1 can also be selected as default.
Advanced Options
dBpoweramp Configuration offers advanced options for this codec (dBpoweramp Configuration >> Codecs >> Advanced Options):
Advanced Audio Compression ID Tagging
Tag Creation sets the default tag creation type.
ID3v2 version & ID3v2 Text encoding enable selection of the type of id3v2 tag written.
Advanced Audio Compression Decoder
Output (AAC) 16 bit, 24 or 32 bit gives the option to select the output from the decoder, 32 bit is automatically selected when an encoder can use the higher resolution. AAC stores internally encodings as floating point, but generally speaking encoding a 16 bit audio CD to Ogg Vorbis then back to 32 bit point wave will not yield extra bit depth. This option requires dBpoweramp Reference.
Corrupt AAC File gives the option to continue decoding an aac file after a stream error has been detected (ie corrupt audio file), or stop on such an error.
Codec Background
Advanced Audio Compression (AAC), of which are different types: LC (low complexity), HE (high efficiency) to name a few. To encode your audio to be compatible with most audio players, use the LC compression type (used as default by this encoder). High Efficiency (HE AAC) uses SBR technology (not too different as mp3PRO) if the player knows about HE the extra frequency information can be decoded, otherwise half the audio quality will be missing on playback. A newer standard again for ultra low bitrates is AAC+ or AAC HEv2, this uses parametric stereo for even lower bitrates.
Version Changes
Complete Version Changes