- BonkEnc
Infobox_Software
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caption = BonkEnc v1.0
name = BonkEnc Audio Encoder
developer =Robert Kausch
latest_release_version = 1.0.9
latest_release_date =September 16 ,2008
operating_system =Microsoft Windows
genre = CD audio extractor
license = GPL
website = [http://www.bonkenc.org/ www.bonkenc.org]BonkEnc is a CD audio extractor for
Microsoft Windows . [http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Bonkenc] Distributed under the terms of theGNU General Public License , BonkEnc isfree software . The developers invite donations but they are optional.Features
Besides digital audio extraction BonkEnc also supports converting audio files to another format. It is also possible to reencode an audio file to the same format which can be useful to convert a file to a lower
bitrate . The program supports most important audio formats such asMP3 ,Ogg Vorbis , MP4/AAC andFLAC .For CD audio extraction BonkEnc makes use of the CDRip library developed in the
CDex project. Therefore it supports the same error correction methods as CDex which are known as "CD paranoia".The BonkEnc user interface is multilingual and can be translated easily. It is currently available in 32 languages.
During BonkEnc development great importance has been attached to supporting
Unicode . The application supports CD information queries to thefreedb online CD database and can write information tags (e.g. ID3v2) to audio files in Unicode format. In doing so it can also convert invalid freedb entries to the correct format.History
The first public release of BonkEnc was announced in summer of 2001 and carried the version number 0.4. The program was merely a converter at that time, purpose-built for converting audio files to the then new Bonk format. However, it also supported encoding to MP3 files already.
After several 0.x releases which added support for more audio formats and for CD audio extraction version 1.0 Beta 1 was released on July 5, 2003. This marked the official beginning of the beta phase.
On February 21, 2007 the stable version 1.0 was finally released.
ee also
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List of free audio software External links
* [http://www.bonkenc.org/ BonkEnc homepage]
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