Fre:ac

fre:ac

fre:ac

Slim CD ripper, audio encoder and converter
Developer(s)	Robert Kausch
Release information
Initial release	{{{released}}}
Stable release	1.0.28 (19 February 2017)
Preview release	Snapshot 20161129 (29 November 2016)
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
• lossless file verification
• rip/convert to multiple formats at once
• multi-channel audio support
• support for external (command line) codecs
• manages multiple configurations
• HTOA ripping

Supported Formats

Supported by the stable release:

• Bonk v0.11
• FLAC
• Ogg Vorbis (aoTuV)
• 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
• OptimFROG
• WavPack

Supported languages

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

Corsican 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 ...