fre:ac
fre:ac
 Slim CD ripper, audio encoder and converter | |
| Developer(s) | Robert Kausch |
| Release information | |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.0.28 (19 February 2017) |
| Preview release | Snapshot 20170317 (17 March 2017) |
| 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:
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
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