BonkEnc
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| BonkEnc Audio Encoder | |
 BonkEnc v1.0 Beta 4 |
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| Developer: | Robert Kausch |
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| Latest release: | 1.0 Beta 4 / June 18, 2006 |
| OS: | Microsoft Windows |
| Use: | CD audio extractor |
| License: | GPL |
| Website: | www.bonkenc.org |
BonkEnc is an Open Source CD audio extractor for Microsoft Windows.
[edit] 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 as MP3, Ogg Vorbis, MP4/AAC and FLAC.
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 26 languages.
During BonkEnc development great importance has been attached to supporting Unicode. The application supports CD information queries to the freedb 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.
[edit] 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 June 18, 2006 the latest version, 1.0 Beta 4, was released. It includes support for the FLAC format, new translations and improvements to the user interface among other things.
Since the release of version 1.0 Beta 4 two unofficial intermediate versions have been published. These snapshots added support for local copies of the freedb database and fixed some minor bugs of version 1.0 Beta 4.
The release of version 1.0 is scheduled for December 2006.
