Thanks to the new flexibility gained through the BoCA interface, components for encoding and decoding Monkey's Audio (*.ape, *.mac) files could be added. Expect better integration with BonkEnc in one of the next snapshots. For example, you cannot set encoder options using the BonkEnc GUI, yet. Support for command line encoders is still very basic, however. Just copy the respective encoder executables (takc.exe, shortn32.exe or neroAacEnc.exe) to the codecs/cmdline subdirectory and BonkEnc will recognize the encoders at next start. The snapshot package includes Musepack and WavPack encoders and comes with ready configuration files for TAK, Shorten and Nero AAC. That way you can now use encoders like Nero's HE-AAC or Musepack with BonkEnc. The BonkEnc Component Architecture now supports encoder/decoder DLLs and provides access to external command line encoders. It provides a first glimpse of some of what will eventually be in BonkEnc v1.1. I released the first development snapshot of the BonkEnc v1.1 CVS tree today. Some of the features of BonkEnc v1.0.x might not work correctly or might not work at all even though they are enabled in the config dialog. Please be aware, however, that this is a development snapshot release and is quite bleeding edge. I encourage you to try out the new snapshot and the new formats. I know many BonkEnc users were waiting for some of these codecs to be supported for a long time. Many of them also support tagging with either ID3v2 or APEv2 tags. Most of the encoders allow some options to be configured using the regular BonkEnc configuration dialog. A "How to" on how to add the individual encoders and decoders to BonkEnc is included in the English language manual. Several other codecs are currently being tested and might be added in a later release. This brought support for the following new codecs to BonkEnc: During the last few weeks the focus was on adding/improving external (command line) encoder and decoder support. I released another BonkEnc CVS snapshot yesterday. In addition, it greatly improves cover art and freedb support and fixes some ID3v2 tagging problems. The most notable is support for reading ISRC codes from CDs which is needed by radio stations ripping audio CDs for broadcast. The new snapshot also adds features mainly needed by professional users. Speaking of codecs, support for the Speex format has been added, the external TAK encoder is included in the distribution and decoding of several basic audio formats (such as Microsoft Wave or Apple AIFF) is now done using a new libsndfile based decoder component. Currently, only the FAAC, LAME and Ogg Vorbis codecs are supported on 64 bit systems, but others can be integrated as external codecs. The snapshot is the first to include native x86-64 support. The tag editor will be improved in future snapshots to include an album mode and allow tag editing of files not loaded into the joblist. It is still very limited, but already allows to edit cover art and a lot of tagging fields that could not be accessed in previous versions. Most visible to you will be the new tag editor. It previews tons of new features that will be in BonkEnc v1.1. I released a new snapshot of the 1.1 development series a few weeks ago. I may also need someone to complete the Hebrew translation. If you would like to translate BonkEnc to other languages written from right to left, like Arabic, Farsi or others, you are welcome to download the preview release and send me your translations. In the meantime, here is a preview release with right-to-left script support: bonkenc-1.0.14-pre2-bin.zip In a few weeks, BonkEnc 1.0.14 will be released with Hebrew language support. Here's a screenshot showing BonkEnc in Hebrew language in right-to-left mode: Now I just need to fix some performance issues before the next release. I finally got everything working yesterday.
I implemented right-to-left script support for edit fields and fixed a number of glitches in text display. Then some weeks ago, a user sent me a Hebrew translation for BonkEnc and that finally gave me the motivation to fix this. All in all, right-to-left-mode was not ready for any serious use. Though text display worked most of the time, typing text in edit fields did not work correctly at all in right-to-left mode. Support for right-to-left script was really broken until now. It was a tough job, but fun to do and it’s great to see everything working in the end. I recently spent some time fixing right-to-left script support in BonkEnc. BonkEnc for right-to-left script languages
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