fre:ac 1.0.20a

Version 1.0.20a (March 2012)

- fixed unintended dependency on Intel runtime libraries
- fixed bogus error messages on AMD CPUs


Version 1.0.20 (March 2012)

- added Bulgarian language support
- added Spanish user guide
- updated Polish and Romanian translations
- upgraded LAME to version 3.99.5
- upgraded Ogg library to version 1.3.0
- some minor fixes


Version 1.0.19 (May 2011)

- updated Serbian translation
- fixed possible MP3 decoder crashes
- upgraded Ogg Vorbis to aoTuV beta 6.03
- minor other fixes


Version 1.0.18 (April 2011)

- updated French, Czech, Dutch and Finnish translations
- added CD text support for sampler CDs
- added support for gapless MP3 decoding
- added support for decoding uncompressed AIFF-C files
- changed default output directory to "My Music" folder
- fixed skipping of first few seconds of some MP3s and raw AAC files
- fixed and improved decoding of raw audio formats WAVE, AIFF and AU
- upgraded Ogg library to version 1.2.2
- upgraded Ogg Vorbis to aoTuV beta 6.02
- some minor fixes


Released fre:ac v1.0.17a hotfix for MP3 decoder issue.


Version 1.0.17 of fre:ac has been released today.

The new release reflects the project name change from BonkEnc to fre:ac. It includes translation updates and fixes some bugs found in previous versions.


Version 1.0.16 (August 2010)

- updated Dutch translation
- added Dutch and Czech translations for the installer
- select a reasonable WMA codec by default
- fixed problems with text edit fields
- raised maximum file name length on NT systems
- some minor fixes


Version 1.0.15 (July 2010)

- added Windows Media Audio encoder/decoder
- added support for wildcards in arguments to BEcmd
- added ripping speed configuration option
- added <filetype> file name pattern
- updated most translations
- added several translations for the installer
- added Portuguese user guide
- improved GUI performance especially on Windows Vista and Windows 7
- fixed handling of garbage data before the first MP3 frame
- fixed LAME ABR preset configuration
- fixed problem opening MP3 and FLAC files on Windows 9x with Unicows
- fixed CD ripping problems on some Windows 7 x64 systems
- upgraded LAME to version 3.98.4
- upgraded CDRip to version 1.23
- upgraded Ogg library to version 1.2.0
- some minor fixes


Version 1.0.14 (October 2009)

- added Hebrew language support
- updated Vietnamese and Czech translations
- now using the MAD decoder for MP3
- interface language is now selected automatically at first startup
- added total time and progress display
- added support for LAME info tags
- added Vietnamese translation for the installer
- fixed automatic reading of CD contents on disc insert
- fixed several problems regarding Winamp input plugins
- fixed icon display on Windows Vista and Windows 7
- fixed freeze-ups on Windows 7
- fixed possible freeze-up at program startup
- significant encoding speed improvements
- upgrade to MP4v2 v1.9.1
- some minor bug fixes


Version 1.1 CVS (August 2009)

- added Estonian, Croatian, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Catalan, Valencian and Galician language support
- added German, Italian, Russian, Czech and Greek user guides
- added German and Japanese translations for the installer
- converted input and output filters to BoCA components
- implemented new configuration dialog
- redesigned progress display area
- completely reworked LAME configuration dialog
- added a simple tag editor
- added Monkey's Audio encoder/decoder
- added Speex speech encoder/decoder
- added Windows Media Audio encoder/decoder
- added support for command line encoders/decoders
- added support for the MAD MP3 decoder
- added TwinVQ VQF decoder support
- added support for AAC synchronizing (needed to read ripped AAC streams)
- added support for reading simple audio files using libsndfile
- added support for cover art in MP4 files
- added support for MCDI frame in ID3v2 tags
- added <directory> pattern to allow preserving existing directory structures
- added <filetype> pattern
- added <installdrive> pattern for use in output directory name
- label/publisher and ISRC information is now preserved during conversion
- added support for reading ISRC codes from CDs
- making better use of multi-core CPUs when encoding/decoding
- miscellaneous other speed optimizations
- the five last used file name patterns are now saved for later use
- greatly improved case conversion functions
- fixed writing of bad ID3v2 tags when iconv.dll is not available
- fixed ID3lib to read and write correct ID3v2.4 tags
- fixed writing of ID3v1 tags when encoding VBR or ABR MP3s
- fixed creation of cuesheets for multiple tracks in a single file
- fixed total progress bar not working correctly with many tracks in joblist
- fixed crash when encoding to single MP4 file
- fixed unwanted downsampling when encoding to low bitrate MP3
- fixed Vorbis (and FLAC) comment tag reading
- fixed not writing Xing header when using LAME presets
- fixed crash when trying to open unsupported Sun Audio (.au) files
- fixed encoding empty tracks when no CD is inserted
- fixed various CDDB issues
- fixed HTTP proxy authentication
- fixed BEcmd crashes
- fixed support for various artists CDs
- improved CDDB data sanity check
- improved support for network files and directories
- NT SCSI mode is now used by default to access CD drives on NT systems
- installer improvements
- lots of fixes to the command line encoder
- added native x64 platform support
- upgraded Bonk to version 0.12
- upgraded FLAC to version 1.2.1
- upgraded FAAC to version 1.28
- upgraded FAAD2 to version 2.7
- upgraded LAME to version 3.98.3
- upgraded Ogg Vorbis to aoTuV beta 5.7
- upgraded Ogg library to version 1.1.4
- upgraded CDRip to version 1.21 (with cdparanoia III version 10.2)
- upgrade to MP4v2 v2.0
- lots of other fixes


Version 1.0.13 (July 2009)

- added Vietnamese and Galician language support
- added Czech user guide
- updated Chinese (traditional), Czech and Serbian translations
- making better use of multi-core CPUs when encoding/decoding
- miscellaneous other speed optimizations
- removed outdated presets for LAME encoder
- fixed a possible crash at the end of encoding using LAME
- fixed a possible crash opening Bonk files
- fixed BEcmd argument handling
- fixed problems with easyUpdate
- upgraded Ogg library to version 1.1.4


Version 1.0.12 (May 2009)

- added Croatian language support
- updated Japanese and Russian translations
- fixed CDDB querying when both, local and remote CDDB are enabled
- fixed problems with easyUpdate running on Windows Vista
- fixed problems starting BonkEnc on Windows NT 4.0
- disabled compression of all executables to fix incorrect threat warnings from virus scanners
- upgraded Ogg Vorbis to aoTuV beta 5.7