fre:ac

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fre:ac


fre:ac
fre:ac screenshot
Slim CD ripper, audio encoder and converter
Developer(s) Robert Kausch
Release information
Initial release {{{released}}}
Stable release 1.0.22 (28 July 2014)
Preview release Snapshot 20140921 (21 September 2014)
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

  • CD ripping
  • Transcoding from one format to another
  • using Compact Disc Database (CDDB)
  • 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)

Supported Formats

Supported by the stable release:

Additionally supported by the development snapshot:

Supported languages

  • Afrikaans
  • Arabic
  • 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 (Latin script)
  • Slovak
  • Spanish
  • Swedish
  • Turkish
  • Ukrainian
  • Vietnamese
  • ...