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fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper which integrates various popular formats and encoders. It currently supports MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and Bonk files. It makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3v2 or Vorbis comment tags.
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File size: 8MB
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File size: 8MB
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Download fre:ac 1.0.32 8MB Win
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Download fre:ac 1.1 Alpha 20190423 Portable 13MB Win Portable
Download fre:ac 1.1 Alpha 20190423 Portable 64-bit 14MB Win64 Portable
Download fre:ac 1.1 Alpha 20190423 Mac 33MB Mac
Download fre:ac 1.1 Alpha 20190423 Linux 12MB Linux
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fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20190423 has been released and is now available for download!
This release adds support for ripping with more CD drives than there are CPU threads available. So if you have thousands of discs to archive and some spare drives, this is for you.
Other important improvements and fixes in this release are:
Added support for PulseAudio output on Linux
Added support for drag & drop in the tag editor
Improved interoperability of playlist files with VLC
Improved handling of cue sheets referencing multiple files
Fixed crash when showing freedb multi-match dialog
Fixed float samples processing with Core Audio encoder
Fixed MP4 output issues when input and output files are the same
Fixed decoding of 24 bit WMA Lossless files on Windows 10
Fixed several issues handling Opus files
Fixed several stability issues and hangs
Upgrading to the 20190423 release is strongly recom
fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20181201a has been released and is now available for download!
This release adds a Notifier extension that can play a sound or display a message when a conversion is finished which was an often requested feature.
fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20181201
Saturday, 01 December 2018 18:16
This release adds a Notifier extension that can play a sound or display a message when a conversion is finished which was an often requested feature.
Other changes in this release are:
Improved tagging support
Read/write ID3v2 from/to .wav files
Read cue sheets embedded in ID3v2 tags
Improved freaccmd command line interface
Select options can now be specified ignoring case (e.g. VBR and vbr are now interchangeable)
Fixes for arguments parsing on non-Windows systems
Other improvements
Added option to switch stereo channels in Channel Converter DSP
Added support for accent colors on macOS Mojave
Greatly improved UI looks and behavior on Haiku
Respect GDK_SCALE environment variable on X11 systems
Extension component names are now translatable
Various bug fixes
Fixed crash when using the channel converter to convert mono to stereo
Fixed output file writing when using FAAC in SuperFast mode
Fixed encoding mono MP3s with LAME
Fixed issues writing MP4 files when <directory> pattern is used
Improved performance when reading large MP4/M4A files
This release adds support for ripping with more CD drives than there are CPU threads available. So if you have thousands of discs to archive and some spare drives, this is for you.
Other important improvements and fixes in this release are:
Added support for PulseAudio output on Linux
Added support for drag & drop in the tag editor
Improved interoperability of playlist files with VLC
Improved handling of cue sheets referencing multiple files
Fixed crash when showing freedb multi-match dialog
Fixed float samples processing with Core Audio encoder
Fixed MP4 output issues when input and output files are the same
Fixed decoding of 24 bit WMA Lossless files on Windows 10
Fixed several issues handling Opus files
Fixed several stability issues and hangs
Upgrading to the 20190423 release is strongly recom
fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20181201a has been released and is now available for download!
This release adds a Notifier extension that can play a sound or display a message when a conversion is finished which was an often requested feature.
fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20181201
Saturday, 01 December 2018 18:16
This release adds a Notifier extension that can play a sound or display a message when a conversion is finished which was an often requested feature.
Other changes in this release are:
Improved tagging support
Read/write ID3v2 from/to .wav files
Read cue sheets embedded in ID3v2 tags
Improved freaccmd command line interface
Select options can now be specified ignoring case (e.g. VBR and vbr are now interchangeable)
Fixes for arguments parsing on non-Windows systems
Other improvements
Added option to switch stereo channels in Channel Converter DSP
Added support for accent colors on macOS Mojave
Greatly improved UI looks and behavior on Haiku
Respect GDK_SCALE environment variable on X11 systems
Extension component names are now translatable
Various bug fixes
Fixed crash when using the channel converter to convert mono to stereo
Fixed output file writing when using FAAC in SuperFast mode
Fixed encoding mono MP3s with LAME
Fixed issues writing MP4 files when <directory> pattern is used
Improved performance when reading large MP4/M4A files
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| 11 reviews, Showing 1 to 5 reviews |
Would benefit from a normalisation option. Has lots of options which seem a bit unnecessary that the average user would never use. The alpha build can accept 5.1 sources(the stable can only accept 2 channel inputs!), but bugs exist. It takes much time to load some audio files like 5.1 ac-3 and often crashes during encoding. It has crashed for me in WinXP to Win10 so far.
The progress counter does not even show in some file encoding. Still at alpha stage but at least it is being developed and is a good freeware software. I now use the superior EZCD Converter instead.
The progress counter does not even show in some file encoding. Still at alpha stage but at least it is being developed and is a good freeware software. I now use the superior EZCD Converter instead.
Review by Abe on
Nov 1, 2019 Version: 1.1 alpha
OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 8/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 7/10
No comments. Rating it only.
Review by ShaneTune1 on
Aug 20, 2018 Version: 1.0.32
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
No comments. Rating it only.
Review by Damian Höster on
Apr 20, 2018 Version: 1.1
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
Good software, but a major drawback is it needs a sound normalizer, however future builds promise this and also it cannot process 5.1 channel inputs as yet. Pazera audio extractor can process anything as input so I recommend using that for some tricky projects instead.
Review by Sayed on
Nov 19, 2017 Version: 1.0.30
OS: Windows 8 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 9/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
Very good software, but like others my using it had declined for said reason of only 2 channel support. Also it would not open mkv sources.
Review by 7of9 on
Aug 3, 2017 Version: 1.0.2.8
OS: Windows 7 64-bit Ease of use: 9/10
Functionality: 8/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 9/10
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