Auric Converter — Changelog
Design
- App icon renders correctly in the Dock and Finder on macOS 26 — previous version had a built-in drop shadow that caused nested framing inside the system squircle
Design
- Refreshed app icon with dedicated light and dark appearance variants
Metadata Preservation
- Full metadata preservation now works across every output format: MP3 gets ID3v2 tags (including embedded cover art), Opus and Vorbis get Vorbis comments, M4A gets text metadata and artwork
- Source artwork is now correctly embedded into converted M4A files (previously missing)
- Title, artist, album, album artist, genre, year, track #, disc #, and composer all travel through conversion
Bug Fixes
- Cue sheet parser no longer crashes on malformed INDEX lines
- File access throughout the app is now sandbox-correct, fixing silent failures when opening metadata for files selected through the file picker
Licensing
- Activation now stores the list of products covered by your key, preparing for bundled and upgrade purchases
Initial Release
- Converts between AAC, ALAC, FLAC, MP3, Opus, Vorbis, WAV, and AIFF
- Metadata preservation across supported formats, including album art for AAC and ALAC
- LUFS, RMS, and peak normalization with ITU-R BS.1770-4 K-weighting
- Silence trimming with a configurable dBFS threshold
- Fade in and fade out applied in the same pass as normalization gain
- Cue sheet splitting: one-pass track extraction from single-image FLAC/WAV with cue metadata applied
- Bluetooth Max preset: ALAC 44.1 kHz / 16-bit / stereo, matching the Apple Bluetooth ceiling exactly
- Built-in presets: Podcast, Streaming, Archive, MP3 VBR V0, Bluetooth Max. Save your own.
- Watch folders for automatic conversion of newly-added files
- Conversion history with source, destination, format, and duration per entry
- Output verification re-reads the destination to confirm decodability
- Native Apple Silicon, macOS 26+