Fre:ac

fre:ac

Slim CD ripper, audio encoder and converter
Developer(s)	Robert Kausch
Release information
Initial release	{{{released}}}
Stable release	1.1.2 (20 June 2020)
Preview release	{{{preview_release}}}
Compatibility
Operating system	Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Haiku
Additional information
Use	Digital Audio Extraction, transcoding
License	GPL
Website	https://www.freac.org/

fre:ac is an audio converter and CD ripper with support for various formats. The program was known as BonkEnc until 2010, but changed it's name to fre:ac with the 1.0.17 release. It's a slim program and can be run from a USB stick.

As of version 1.1, fre:ac is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD. It is released under the GPL license and has native support for numerous languages.

Features

• Transcoding from one format to another
• Parallel conversion on multi-core systems

• CD ripping
  • cdparanoia mode
  • Jitter correction
  • HTOA ripping
  • CD-Text support
  • Parallel ripping with multiple drives

• Tagging and metadata
  • Support for ID3v1, ID3v2, MP4-Metadata, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and Windows Media Tags
  • Chapter support for ID3v2, MP4-Metadata, Vorbis Comment and Windows Media Tags
  • Keeps album art when converting between different formats
  • Uses Compact Disc Database (CDDB/freedb)
  • Can create cue sheets and playlists
  • Integrated tag editor

• Multi-channel audio support
• Support for DSP components
• Support for external (command line) codecs
• Rip/convert to multiple formats at once
• Lossless file verification
• Manages multiple configurations
• Writing ripping/conversion log files
• Full UTF-8 Unicode support
• Additional command line interface (CD ripping/encoding)

Supported formats

Lossy formats:

• MP3 (LAME)
• MP4/AAC (FAAC/FAAD2, FDK-AAC, Apple AAC)
• Musepack
• Ogg Vorbis (aoTuV)
• Opus
• Speex
• WMA

Lossless formats:

• ALAC (Apple Lossless)
• FLAC
• Monkey's Audio
• OptimFROG
• TAK
• WavPack

Uncompressed formats:

• AIFF
• WAV
• Wave64

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