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fre:ac Slim CD ripper, audio encoder and converter Developer: Robert Kausch Stable release: 1.0.17 (14 November 2010) Preview release: OS: Windows Use: Digital Audio Extraction, transcoding License: GPL Website: http://www.freac.org

Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Features 1.2 Supported Formats 1.3 Recommended Settings 1.4 Supported languages

[edit] Introduction

fre:ac (former 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. BonkEnc is available under GPL liscense and has native support for numerous languages.

[edit] Features

• CD ripping
  • Cdparanoia mode
  • jitter correction
  • CD Text support
• Transcoding from on to another format
• using Compact Disc Database (CDDB)
• support ID3v1, ID3v2, MP4-Metadata and Vorbis comment Tags
• keeps image tags when converting from FLAC to MP3
• creating cue sheets and playlists
• full UTF-8 Unicode support
• additional command line interface (CD Ripping/Encoding)

[edit] Supported Formats

• MP3 (LAME)
• AAC (FAAC)
• MP4/M4A
• Ogg Vorbis
• FLAC
• Bonk v0.11

[edit] Recommended Settings

LAME MP3 Encoder v3.97: FAAC MP4/AAC Encoder v1.26: Ogg Vorbis Encoder (aoTuV beta 5): FLAC Audio Encoder v1.2.1:

here to add here Use preset 5

[edit] Supported languages

Catalan Chinese Czech Danish Dutch English Esperanto Finnish

French German Greek Hungarian Italian Japanese Korean Lithuanian

Polish Portuguese Russian Serbian Slovak Spanish Swedish Turkish

Ukrainian Romanian