Fre:ac

fre:ac

fre:ac

Slim CD ripper, audio encoder and converter
Developer(s)	Robert Kausch
Release information
Initial release	{{{released}}}
Stable release	1.0.25 (11 September 2015)
Preview release	Snapshot 20150725 (25 July 2015)
Compatibility
Operating system	Windows, Linux, OS X, FreeBSD
Additional information
Use	Digital Audio Extraction, transcoding
License	GPL
Website	http://www.freac.org/

Introduction

fre:ac (formerly BonkEnc) is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It's a very slim program and can be run from a USB stick. fre:ac is available under GPL license and has native support for numerous languages.

The stable version is available for Windows only. Support for Linux, OS X and FreeBSD has been added in recent development releases.

Features

Supported by the stable release:

• CD ripping
  • cdparanoia mode
  • jitter correction
  • CD Text support
• Transcoding from one format to another
• using Compact Disc Database (CDDB/freedb)
• support ID3v1, ID3v2, MP4-Metadata, Vorbis Comment and Windows Media Tags
• keeps album art when converting from FLAC to MP3
• creating cue sheets and playlists
• full UTF-8 Unicode support
• additional command line interface (CD Ripping/Encoding)

Additional features of the preview release:

• parallel conversion on multi-core systems
• chapter support for ID3v2, MP4-Metadata, Vorbis Comment and Windows Media Tags
• integrated tag editor
• manages multiple configurations
• HTOA ripping

Supported Formats

Supported by the stable release:

• Bonk v0.11
• FLAC
• Ogg Vorbis
• MP3 (LAME)
• MP4/M4A AAC (FAAC/FAAD2)
• WAV
• WMA

Additionally supported by the development snapshot:

• ALAC (Apple Lossless)
• Opus
• Monkey's Audio
• MP2
• MP4/M4A AAC (Apple AAC)
• Musepack
• Speex
• TAK
• WavPack

Supported languages

Afrikaans Arabic Basque Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian

Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Estonian Finnish French

German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian

Norwegian Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Serbian (Cyrillic script) Serbian (Latin script) Slovak

Spanish Swedish Turkish Ukrainian Vietnamese ...