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fre:ac v1.1.5 |
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Monday, 28 June 2021 00:33 |
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fre:ac version 1.1.5 has been released on 27th June 2021.
This update adds support for verifying audio CD rips using AccurateRip technology. This compares a checksum of the ripped audio against other users' results for the same CD. When a match is found in the AccurateRip database, this basically certifies a perfect rip. And in case of a mismatch, fre:ac displays a warning to let you know something may be wrong.
Besides this major new feature, the 1.1.5 update comes with performance optimizations, further tagging improvements, updated codecs and a number of bug fixes:
- Improvements
- Improved DSP processing performance by up to 70% (mainly on Windows)
- Added frequency bandwidth setting to FDK-AAC encoder configuration dialog
- Added an option to toggle logging of complete paths in log files
- Added options for specifying cover art files to freaccmd
- Added support for reading Shift_JIS encoded CD-Text
- Added support for writing album and track comments to cue sheets
- Added support for ID3v2 tags in RF64 files
- Added support for updating Vorbis Comment tags
- Added support for updating ID3v2 tags in RIFF and AIFF files
- Added support for updating LIST INFO tags in RIFF, RF64 and Wave64 files
- Added support for ensemble field in Vorbis Comment and APEv2 tags
- Added support for movement field in ID3v2, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and MP4 tags
- Added support for additional URL fields in APEv2 tags
- Added a tag editor option to keep album artist even if identical to track artist
- Added media type field to tag editor
- Bug fixes
- Fixed hotspot for genre edit field utility menu not covering the whole width of the field
- Fixed occasional crashes when selecting codec subformat using the "Start encoding with" menu
- Fixed chapter marks being offset by a few seconds when using DSP processing
- Fixed playback not working when using certain combinations of DSP processors
- Fixed incompatibility of FDK-AAC encoded HE and HEv2 AAC files with iTunes
- Fixed issue decoding FLAC files with unknown length
- Fixed glitches decoding transients in some Vorbis files
- Fixed possible crashes when decoding Opus files
- Fixed rare crashes in LAME encoder component
- Fixed strings read from ID3v2 tags being limited to 1024 characters
- Fixed crash when reading malformed CD-Text genre IDs
- Fixed failure ripping with negative read offset
- Fixed disc eject not working on macOS
- Fixed crash when closing fre:ac via dock command on macOS
- Fixed UI glitches and crashes on exit when running in a Wayland session
- Fixed popup menu and dropdown list closing behavior on non-Windows platforms
- Fixed issues with custom DPI settings on Xfce desktops
- Fixed drag & drop working unreliably on X11 based systems
Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.5 is strongly recommended for users of earlier releases.
The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org. |
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Continuous builds of fre:ac for macOS |
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Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:28 |
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Continuous builds of fre:ac are now available for the macOS as well, completing the effort to make these automated builds available for all major desktop operating systems. These builds give you a chance to try the latest changes without having to wait for the next release, for example to benefit from bug fixes or take a peek at the latest feature additions.
Continuous builds are currently provided as .dmg images for Intel Macs running macOS 10.9 or later. A variant optimized for Apple Silicon Macs and macOS 11.0 will be added later.
You can grab the latest continuous build from the downloads page or from GitHub. |
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Continuous builds of fre:ac for Windows |
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Tuesday, 23 February 2021 02:59 |
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Thanks to GitHub Actions, continuous builds of fre:ac are now available for the Windows platform. These automated builds give you a chance to try the latest changes without having to wait for the next release, for example to benefit from bug fixes or take a peek at the latest feature additions.
The continuous builds are provided as .zip packages for the x86 (32 bit) and x86-64 (64 bit) architectures.
You can grab the latest continuous build from the downloads page or from GitHub. |
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fre:ac v1.1.4 |
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Monday, 15 February 2021 01:25 |
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fre:ac version 1.1.4 has been released on 14th February 2021.
This is a service focussing on minor improvements and bug fixes. fre:ac 1.1.3 adds support for HDCD decoding, improves tagging support and usability of the tag editor, updates codecs to the latest versions and fixes several issues found in earlier releases:
- Improvements
- Improved support for reading CD-Text
- Added an HDCD decoder DSP filter
- Added catalog number and barcode fields to tag editor
- Added file type associations to macOS app, so fre:ac is offered for opening audio files
- Added quality (VBR) setting to FDK-AAC configuration dialog
- Improved MP3, AAC and Opus encoding performance by up to 30%
- Improved multi-monitor support on X11 based systems
- Discs of multi-disc albums are now shown separately in tag editor album mode
- Update only changed fields when making edits in tag editor album mode
- Added support for Replay Gain values in MP4 and WMA metadata
- Do not override settings with default values when using freaccmd's --config option
- Bug fixes
- Fixed invalid length written to very long Opus and Speex files (longer than 12 ½ hours at 48 kHz)
- Fixed decoding of some very short Opus, Vorbis and Speex files
- Fixed written MP4 chapters being invisible to some applications when using Nero AAC
- Fixed hang/crash when opening WavPack, Musepack, TAK and OptimFROG files with chapters
- Fixed issues submitting CDDB information for new CDs (without existing entries)
- Fixed issues handling long path/file names on Windows
- Fixed output sample rate being limited to 192 kHz
- Fixed freaccmd randomly failing to process files in rare cases
- Fixed bad user interface colors on some Linux distributions
Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.4 is strongly recommended for users of earlier releases.
The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org. |
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fre:ac is now available for Apple Silicon Macs |
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Tuesday, 17 November 2020 10:35 |
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Just in time for the first Apple Silicon Macs being delivered to end users, fre:ac is now available for this new generation of Macs.
To support the different types of Macs, the macOS version of fre:ac is now available in two flavors:
- For Intel and PowerPC Macs running macOS 10.x, download freac-1.1.x-macos10.dmg
- For Intel and Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 11.0, download freac-1.1.x-macos11.dmg
Head over to the downloads section to get the Apple Silicon version or any other variant of fre:ac. |
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