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freac

Name: freac
Rating: 0 (1 reviews)

1.1.0.4843

14 October 2019

Audio converter and CD ripper (alpha).

Overview

freac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It converts between MP3, M4A/AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WMA, AIFF, WAV and other formats. You can easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or M4A files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure. The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.

Features

Converter for MP3, M4A/AAC, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WMA, AIFF, WAV and other formats
Integrated CD ripper with CDDB/freedb title database support
Parallel processing to speed up conversions on modern PCs
Full Unicode support for tags and file names
Easy to learn and use, still offers expert options when you need them
Multilingual user interface available in 40 languages
Completely free and open source without a catch

What's new in freac

Version 1.1.0.4843:

Hotfix:

Added support for macOS Catalina

Added:

Support for ripping with more drives than CPU cores available
Support for drag & drop in the tag editor
An option to keep timestamps of source files

Improved:

Interoperability of playlist files with VLC
Handling of cue sheets referencing multiple files

Fixed:

Float samples processing with Core Audio encoder
MP4 output issues when in and out files are the same
Several issues handling Opus files
Several stability issues

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2 freac Reviews

Tlance

03 August 2015

Most helpful

Why folks go to so much trouble when it's obvious they can't come close to the standard that XLD is, well, it is beyond my comprehension. No log, for Mac OS X doesn't even use CD Paranoia, butt-ugly, no simultaneous multiple encode ability, etc. I can not find one thing exceptional.

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Version 1.1.0.3552

Tlance

03 August 2015

Why folks go to so much trouble when it's obvious they can't come close to the standard that XLD is, well, it is beyond my comprehension. No log, for Mac OS X doesn't even use CD Paranoia, butt-ugly, no simultaneous multiple encode ability, etc. I can not find one thing exceptional.

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Version 1.1.0.3552

1 answer(s)

ancbedran

01 March 2017

I can not adjust the bitrate of MP3 tracks of a CD in ripping process - I can always be sure there was a way to choose higher bitrates - I am only stucked at 128 EVEN if I slide a buttom at config that seems to show 260 (I would like to go to 320) - Could you helpe with this? Thanks in advance if so.

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OSX-FTW!

26 July 2013

Trying to launch this it says it requires X11? I don't see that listed in the requirements. It should be added. I'm not reviewing this because I'm not really interested due to the X11 requirement. There are other apps that do the same thing and are stand alone.

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Version 1.1.0.2245

1 answer(s)

Bigdave56

27 July 2013

Mac Osx 4ever- first places to look imho would be XLD with 2nd place going to MediaHuman Audio Converter. XLD has a bit of a learning curve but is well worth the effort. Am using that for all ripping and converting now.

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