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		<title>Fre:ac</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;77.10.102.129: Update stable release to 1.1.4&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;{{DISPLAYTITLE:fre:ac}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{Software Infobox&lt;br /&gt;
| name = fre:ac&lt;br /&gt;
| logo =&lt;br /&gt;
| screenshot = [[Image:BonkEnc-screenshot.png|250px|fre:ac screenshot]]&lt;br /&gt;
| caption = Slim CD ripper, audio encoder and converter &lt;br /&gt;
| maintainer = Robert Kausch&lt;br /&gt;
| stable_release = 1.1.4 (14 February 2021)&lt;br /&gt;
| operating_system = Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, Haiku&lt;br /&gt;
| use = Digital Audio Extraction, transcoding&lt;br /&gt;
| license = GPL &lt;br /&gt;
| website = [https://www.freac.org/ https://www.freac.org/]&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
&#039;&#039;&#039;fre:ac&#039;&#039;&#039; is an audio converter and CD ripper with support for various formats. The program was known as BonkEnc until 2010, but changed it&#039;s name to fre:ac with the 1.0.17 release. It&#039;s a slim program and can be run from a USB stick.&lt;br /&gt;
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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.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Features ==&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Transcoding]] from one format to another&lt;br /&gt;
* Parallel conversion on multi-core systems&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
* CD ripping&lt;br /&gt;
** [[cdparanoia]] mode&lt;br /&gt;
** Jitter correction&lt;br /&gt;
** [[HTOA]] ripping&lt;br /&gt;
** [[CD-Text]] support&lt;br /&gt;
** [[HDCD]] decoding&lt;br /&gt;
** Parallel ripping with multiple drives&lt;br /&gt;
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* Tagging and metadata&lt;br /&gt;
** Support for [[ID3v1]], [[ID3v2]], MP4-Metadata, [[Vorbis Comment]], [[APEv2]] and Windows Media [[Tags]]&lt;br /&gt;
** Chapter support for ID3v2, MP4-Metadata, Vorbis Comment and Windows Media Tags&lt;br /&gt;
** Keeps album art when converting between different formats&lt;br /&gt;
** Uses Compact Disc Database (CDDB/freedb)&lt;br /&gt;
** Can create [[cue sheet|cue sheets]] and playlists&lt;br /&gt;
** Integrated tag editor&lt;br /&gt;
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* Multi-channel audio support&lt;br /&gt;
* Support for [[DSP]] components&lt;br /&gt;
* Support for external (command line) codecs&lt;br /&gt;
* Rip/convert to multiple formats at once&lt;br /&gt;
* Lossless file verification&lt;br /&gt;
* Manages multiple configurations&lt;br /&gt;
* Writing ripping/conversion log files&lt;br /&gt;
* Full UTF-8 Unicode support&lt;br /&gt;
* Additional command line interface (CD ripping/encoding)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
== Supported formats ==&lt;br /&gt;
Lossy formats:&lt;br /&gt;
* [[MP3]] ([[LAME]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[AAC|MP4/AAC]] ([[FAAC]]/[[FAAD|FAAD2]], [[Fraunhofer FDK AAC|FDK-AAC]], [[Apple AAC]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Musepack]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Ogg_Vorbis|Ogg Vorbis]] ([[aoTuV]])&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Opus]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Speex]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[WMA]]&lt;br /&gt;
Lossless formats:&lt;br /&gt;
* [[ALAC]] (Apple Lossless)&lt;br /&gt;
* [[FLAC]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Monkey%27s_Audio|Monkey&#039;s Audio]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[OptimFROG]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Tak|TAK]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[WavPack]]&lt;br /&gt;
Uncompressed formats:&lt;br /&gt;
* [[AIFF]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[WAV]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Wave64]]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Supported languages ==&lt;br /&gt;
{| border=&amp;quot;0&amp;quot; -valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
|-valign=&amp;quot;top&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
* Afrikaans&lt;br /&gt;
* Arabic&lt;br /&gt;
* Basque&lt;br /&gt;
* Bulgarian&lt;br /&gt;
* Cantonese&lt;br /&gt;
* Catalan&lt;br /&gt;
* Chinese (Simplified)&lt;br /&gt;
* Chinese (Traditional)&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
* Corsican&lt;br /&gt;
* Croatian&lt;br /&gt;
* Czech&lt;br /&gt;
* Danish&lt;br /&gt;
* Dutch&lt;br /&gt;
* English&lt;br /&gt;
* Esperanto&lt;br /&gt;
* Estonian&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
* Finnish&lt;br /&gt;
* French&lt;br /&gt;
* German&lt;br /&gt;
* Greek&lt;br /&gt;
* Hebrew&lt;br /&gt;
* Hindi&lt;br /&gt;
* Hungarian&lt;br /&gt;
* Italian&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
* Japanese&lt;br /&gt;
* Korean&lt;br /&gt;
* Lithuanian&lt;br /&gt;
* Norwegian&lt;br /&gt;
* Polish&lt;br /&gt;
* Portuguese&lt;br /&gt;
* Romanian&lt;br /&gt;
* Russian&lt;br /&gt;
||&lt;br /&gt;
* Serbian (Cyrillic script)&lt;br /&gt;
* Serbian (Latin script)&lt;br /&gt;
* Slovak&lt;br /&gt;
* Spanish&lt;br /&gt;
* Swedish&lt;br /&gt;
* Turkish&lt;br /&gt;
* Ukrainian&lt;br /&gt;
* Vietnamese&lt;br /&gt;
|}&lt;br /&gt;
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[[Category:CD Rippers]]&lt;br /&gt;
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