fre:ac

**fre:ac**

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 20140609 (9 June 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
- cdparanoia mode
- jitter correction
- CD Text support
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
...