freac1.1.2.5222

Name: freac
Rating: 1 (1 reviews)

20 June 2020

Audio converter and CD ripper.

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Overview

freac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It converts between MP3, M4A/AAC, Opus, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, 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, Opus, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, 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 more than 40 languages
Completely free and open source without a catch

What's new in freac

Version 1.1.2.5222:

Improvements:

Scale UI to adjust to system font size by default
Improved handling of maximized and full-screen window state
Stop ripping before trying to eject a disc
Write audio data CRC to log files when ripping
Write MD5 checksums to log files when verifying files
Write log entries when replacing existing files

Bug fixes:

Fixed length of last chapter of some audio books being detected as 0:00
Prevent interpreting numerical IDs or dates at the beginning of file names as track numbers
Fixed a possible source of random crashes when adding files to the joblist
Fixed possible crash when importing MP4/M4A files
Fixed possible crash when encoding in SuperFast mode
Fixed some graphics glitches

Updated codecs:

Updated Monkey's Audio to version 5.44
Updated mpg123 to version 1.26.1
Updated FAAD2 to version 2.9.2

6 Reviews of freac

STILL no fix for the MP3 tags problems. Developer - do you even care? This is a deal-breaker for me, and others. We don't want to see "Hotel Californi " or "Stairway To Heave " ....... get it?

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It's amazing to me that some people get confrontational in their reviews when the software is free. It's one thing if you paid for it and feel you didn't get what you paid for, but it's another when you attack a developer who is giving you something at no charge. If the free software doesn't work, write a non-confrontational review and move on to something else. You are out absolutely nothing.

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Additionally, this is not using the Mac OS-based formatting - the last character of the fields is dropped when viewed with Quicktime's Inspector is viewing the tags. Needs work. And more importantly, needs backwards-compatibility with older ID3 standards.

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Doesn't write to the Quicktime 7 Pro "Group" field. Doesn't capture blank-space lines in Comments field / can't view separated lines in the Comments field.

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Tlance

03 August 2015

Version: 1.1.0.3552

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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OSX-FTW!

26 July 2013

Version: 1.1.0.2245

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.