fre:acは、フリーのオーディオのコンバータ、CDリッパーと様々なフォーマットへのエンコーダーです。MP3、MP4/M4A、WMA、Ogg Vorbis、FLAC、AAC、Bonk形式の音楽ファイルを相互に変換することが出来ます。

このソフトは、CDDB/freedbオンラインCDデータベースとCDTextをサポートし、自動的に曲の情報をID3v2またはVorbisコメントタグに書き込みます。

fre:acは、ドネーションソフトでもあるので、使ってみて、気に入ったという人は開発者に寄付をすることも出来ます。

A new fre:ac snapshot has been released and is now available for download. In snapshot 20130430 the playlist subsystem has been modularized and support for XSPF and PLS playlists added. It also features a new confirmation dialog for files to be overwritten in a conversion job. The new dialog is shown before the actual conversion starts and so eliminates blocking popups during mass conversion jobs.

The Linux packages should now work on most distributions and have been briefly tested on latest versions of Fedora, Mageia, Mint, Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE. Last but not least, fre:ac and BoCA components can now be installed in a Unix filesystem hierarchy. This greatly simplifies the build process and will allow to provide easily installable packages in the future.

Lots of bugs have been fixed since the previous snapshot and the new version should be quite stable already. However, please still remember that it is an alpha snapshot and probably not generally suitable for daily work!

The new snapshot is available in the downloads section.

fre:ac snapshot 20120930 is now available for download. This snapshot includes bug fixes for all the known bugs in the 20120916 release and brings just some minor new features. Among the bugs fixed in this release are a deadlocking problem affecting all platforms, the previously broken 64 bit Windows package and several Mac OS X specific bugs.

Notable changes in this release are the use of mpg123 replacing MAD as the default MP3 decoder on Windows and Mac OS X and the availability of a 64 bit Linux package.

Please remember that this is still an alpha snapshot and not generally suitable for daily work!

You can get the new snapshot in the downloads section.

fre:ac snapshot 20120916 is now available for download. Along with the usual stability improvements and bug fixes it adds support for large fonts and a codec for the all new Opus audio format.

Other new features in this release are mostly targeted on improving your workflow. They include configuration options to keep processed tracks in the joblist or alternatively add encoded files to the list, an option to automatically select the first CDDB match without showing a selection popup as well as general improvements to title info editing.

While stability has generally improved with this release and specifically the OpenBSD port is running more stable now, there are also some new problems already identified. The Linux version may hang after downloading videos, the Mac OS X package is incompatible with XQuartz and thus does not work on OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.x and the Solaris port crashes upon closing any windows. These issues will be taken care of in the next snapshot.

Please remember that this is still an alpha snapshot and not generally suitable for daily work!

You can get the new snapshot in the downloads section.