fre:ac
 Slim CD ripper, audio encoder and converter | |
| Developer(s) | Robert Kausch |
| Release information | |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.1.1 (19 April 2020) |
| Compatibility | |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Haiku |
| Additional information | |
| Use | Digital Audio Extraction, transcoding |
| License | GPL |
| Website | https://www.freac.org/ |
fre:ac is an audio converter and CD ripper with support for various formats. The program was known as BonkEnc until 2010, but changed it's name to fre:ac with the 1.0.17 release. It's a slim program and can be run from a USB stick.
As of version 1.1, fre:ac is available for Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD. It is released under the GPL license and has native support for numerous languages.
Features
- Transcoding from one format to another
- Parallel conversion on multi-core systems
- CD ripping
- cdparanoia mode
- Jitter correction
- HTOA ripping
- CD-Text support
- Parallel ripping with multiple drives
- Tagging and metadata
- Support for ID3v1, ID3v2, MP4-Metadata, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and Windows Media Tags
- Chapter support for ID3v2, MP4-Metadata, Vorbis Comment and Windows Media Tags
- Keeps album art when converting between different formats
- Uses Compact Disc Database (CDDB/freedb)
- Can create cue sheets and playlists
- Integrated tag editor
- Multi-channel audio support
- Support for DSP components
- Support for external (command line) codecs
- Rip/convert to multiple formats at once
- Lossless file verification
- Manages multiple configurations
- Writing ripping/conversion log files
- Full UTF-8 Unicode support
- Additional command line interface (CD ripping/encoding)
Supported formats
Lossy formats:
Lossless formats:
Uncompressed formats:
Supported languages
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