Bonk enc #1: a very good (shell) program for ripping your CDs ...
.........and reconverting your MP3s into another forrmat ........... A REVIEW
The program has been found i think in the freewaregenius web site (together with mediacoder , toibe reviewed later here ) several months ago, bvased on a very short review, which normally acts as a shell program for several freeware /open source audio codecs.
The program can be found in the adress http://www.bonkenc.org and includes the latest two versions , together with two extra plug ins. The most curent is 107
ONce you download the program the screening is shown as below:
The program has the following specifications:
- is totally free and comes with its source
- it can be just unzipped into a folder and work . Thefore it is a green program
- There are various language translations including a program that handles translation fields
- Connectivity with CDDB for automatic album naming (if avaialble )
- automatic ripping after a CD is inserted and recognized (setable)
The latest colleciton i converted has been totally found from the CDDB databqase
- about 5 conversion systems
FLAC, Blade , Lame ,Ogg, AAC and its own Bonk
- auto titling based on the information of the artist and title given , including the ID3 info saved
- mass ID3 saving
- CD /file operations: playback and insert/escape button shown below the web adress
- also facility to manually update - via the help menu
- plug ins for in- and out-put
a very interesting point is that the program allows you not only to add the ID tags (ID 1 and 2 ) but also
- set the case letters towards: each word in lower or in upper cases ,
- set the tag for all the songs included in ripping
- set a spscial label for the music kind
Here are several screenshots from its settings: here is just the encoders settings. As you may see there is also a filename naming pattern
And another settings view for playlists . There is the ability to use cue sheets
And here you will find some screeshots for the encoding abilities . As you may see Fraunhofer FhG and WMA codec are missing . I think this is because FhG codec is commercial .....WAVE OUT as show in the picture comes fromta export plugin .Blade enc is a optional codec that can be found in the program's site that has several peculiar conversion specs .All codecs here are freeeware modules.
In the next pages you will find in depth (as posible ) reports on the codecs and their operations includeing more pictures
Here are several imprtant notice from my usage for about 2 months
The ID3 tags : upon the preset format , they can be shown OK to Wianamp, Windows explorer and sevreal ID tagging programs but in seeral others not . the proble consisted onthe UTF 16LE . Setting to ISO encoding the porblem has been solved
Cons I found two types of crashes:
- The program crashed when resizing the time Bonk was converting
- several dragged /dropped MP3s also made it crash. I donot know what is the problem with these MP3 files . But dropping their directories into Bonkencs' file window there was not problem
In the next pages you will see a description of the encoding schemes
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The blade enc adjustments:(a very easy and simple encoder )
The lame encoder - which is trhe most complex encoding system.
The lame encoder has too many parameters to use . the most important for me is the quality item that can cnvert from just 4 secs for the worst quality to 25 secs for the better quality. IN this paramter i prever to use the highest possible number - usually 3 and 2 - inorder to have the best audio quality - though mine ears do not find any significant diference . In the second part i will show you several intereting experiments with them
Here is a screenshot for FAAC , surely a form of AAC ,an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder of lesser general public license :
and here which shows the encoder configuration with both kinds of versions
and here for ogg vorbis : note averager instad of constant bitrate is used
and here is for FLAC (a free lossless audio codec ) with also very great amount of adjustments:
with expert encoider configuration as here:
In the next posting I will place several measurements on some if the above codecs
The program has been found i think in the freewaregenius web site (together with mediacoder , toibe reviewed later here ) several months ago, bvased on a very short review, which normally acts as a shell program for several freeware /open source audio codecs.
The program can be found in the adress http://www.bonkenc.org and includes the latest two versions , together with two extra plug ins. The most curent is 107
ONce you download the program the screening is shown as below:
The program has the following specifications:
- is totally free and comes with its source
- it can be just unzipped into a folder and work . Thefore it is a green program
- There are various language translations including a program that handles translation fields
- Connectivity with CDDB for automatic album naming (if avaialble )
- automatic ripping after a CD is inserted and recognized (setable)
The latest colleciton i converted has been totally found from the CDDB databqase
- about 5 conversion systems
FLAC, Blade , Lame ,Ogg, AAC and its own Bonk
- auto titling based on the information of the artist and title given , including the ID3 info saved
- mass ID3 saving
- CD /file operations: playback and insert/escape button shown below the web adress
- also facility to manually update - via the help menu
- plug ins for in- and out-put
a very interesting point is that the program allows you not only to add the ID tags (ID 1 and 2 ) but also
- set the case letters towards: each word in lower or in upper cases ,
- set the tag for all the songs included in ripping
- set a spscial label for the music kind
Here are several screenshots from its settings: here is just the encoders settings. As you may see there is also a filename naming pattern
And another settings view for playlists . There is the ability to use cue sheets
And here you will find some screeshots for the encoding abilities . As you may see Fraunhofer FhG and WMA codec are missing . I think this is because FhG codec is commercial .....WAVE OUT as show in the picture comes fromta export plugin .Blade enc is a optional codec that can be found in the program's site that has several peculiar conversion specs .All codecs here are freeeware modules.
In the next pages you will find in depth (as posible ) reports on the codecs and their operations includeing more pictures
Here are several imprtant notice from my usage for about 2 months
The ID3 tags : upon the preset format , they can be shown OK to Wianamp, Windows explorer and sevreal ID tagging programs but in seeral others not . the proble consisted onthe UTF 16LE . Setting to ISO encoding the porblem has been solved
Cons I found two types of crashes:
- The program crashed when resizing the time Bonk was converting
- several dragged /dropped MP3s also made it crash. I donot know what is the problem with these MP3 files . But dropping their directories into Bonkencs' file window there was not problem
In the next pages you will see a description of the encoding schemes
=================================================
The blade enc adjustments:(a very easy and simple encoder )
The lame encoder - which is trhe most complex encoding system.
The lame encoder has too many parameters to use . the most important for me is the quality item that can cnvert from just 4 secs for the worst quality to 25 secs for the better quality. IN this paramter i prever to use the highest possible number - usually 3 and 2 - inorder to have the best audio quality - though mine ears do not find any significant diference . In the second part i will show you several intereting experiments with them
Here is a screenshot for FAAC , surely a form of AAC ,an open source MPEG-4 and MPEG-2 AAC encoder of lesser general public license :
and here which shows the encoder configuration with both kinds of versions
and here for ogg vorbis : note averager instad of constant bitrate is used
and here is for FLAC (a free lossless audio codec ) with also very great amount of adjustments:
with expert encoider configuration as here:
In the next posting I will place several measurements on some if the above codecs
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