fre:ac

**fre:ac**

Slim CD ripper, audio encoder and converter
Developer(s)	Robert Kausch
Release information
Initial release	{{{released}}}
Stable release	1.0.24 (1 August 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:

Additionally supported by the development snapshot:

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
...