Version 1.0 beta 1 of BonkEnc has been released today! You can get it at the download page. There's a lot of new stuff for you to try. The most important surely is the added support for Winamp input and output plug-ins, but there's a lot more!

Here's a short list of the new features in this release:

• CDDB querying has been improved (dialog with abort button)
• invalid characters in filenames are now replaced
• improved freedb support
• added official support for Windows 95
• added support for Winamp Input Plugins
• added support for audio playback through Winamp Output Plugins
• improved ASPI detection
• some expert settings can now be set for the LAME encoder
• title information can now be extracted from the filename
• fixed BonkEnc lagging when running for a longer time
• the command line tool is now in a separate executable
• fixed some of the restrictions on input audio formats
• fixed many bugs and memory leaks
• many smaller improvements</p>

Have a lot of fun with the new stuff!