freac

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

• Added support for album artist
• Improved cuesheet / playlist handling
• Updated codecs to latest versions
• Fixes for stability and other issues