Fre:ac 1.0.29 released August 31, 2017
Fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.
With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or WMA files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure.
The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.
Features
- Converter for MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats
- Integrated CD ripper with CDDB/freedb title database support
- Portable application, install on a USB stick and take it with you
- Multi-core optimized encoders to speed up conversions on modern PCs
- Full Unicode support for tags and file names
- Easy to learn and use, still offers expert options when you need them
- Multilingual user interface available in 40 languages
- Completely free and open source without a catch
- fre:ac is available for free without any adware or other foul things. If you like this software, please consider making a donation.
What's new:
- this release now uses the mpg123 library for more reliable MP3 decoding,
- updates the FAAC/FAAD2 codec to the latest version (1.29.7 / 2.8.1)
- changed default FLAC blocksize to 4096 samples to match official FLAC tools.
- removed support for obsolete Main and LTP AAC profiles.
- CDRip to version 1.26 to fix handling of drives with letter A:
- fixes several minor issues (progress not being updated for long running conversions; handling of stray tabs in title info...)
OS: Windows (all; x32-64) and cross-platform (Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris and Linux under WINE).
Home: https://www.freac.org/index.php/en/homepage-mainmenu-1
Download:
installer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bonkenc/files/freac-setup/1.0.29/freac-1.0.29.exe/download
zip package: https://sourceforge.net/projects/bonkenc/files/freac/1.0.29/freac-1.0.29.zip/download
You can delete translator.exe, unnecessary language and manual files. Fre:ac portable automatically adjusts paths