fre:ac version 1.0.19 has been released on 10th May 2011.

This release fixes a crash when decoding MP3 files as well as some other bugs. Besides that it also includes an update Ogg Vorbis encoder and translation updates.

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.19 is strongly recommended to all users of previous versions. You can get it in the downloads section.

A new snapshot of fre:ac is now available for testing.

Snapshot 20110409 adds support for reading and writing MP4 chapters. This enables you to create audio books with chapter marks that will be recognised by your iPod or other portable player. You can also split existing audio books into separate files for each chapter with fre:ac now.

The snapshot also adds support for the FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OS X operating systems. However, all three ports are still very incomplete at the moment. On the other hand, Linux support has improved a lot since the last snapshot.

You can get the new snapshot in the downloads section. Please use it for testing only, not for daily work!

fre:ac version 1.0.18 is now available.

Notable changes in this release are support for gapless MP3 decoding, improved CD-Text support for sampler CDs, an updated Ogg Vorbis encoder and improved support for uncompressed audio formats like Wave and AIFF. The new release also includes the usual translation updates and bug fixes.

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.18 is strongly recommended to all users of previous versions. You can get it in the downloads section.

fre:ac snapshot 20101205 is available for download and testing.

This snapshot release features an integrated video downloader that will grab video files from sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, or Yahoo! Video. Downloaded videos are automatically added to the joblist so you can extract audio tracks and save them as MP3 or another audio format. You can optionally save and keep the downloaded video files on your hard disk as well.

This version also adds support for the Linux operating system. This is still in a very early stage and considered pre-alpha quality for now. It is a solid base for future development though.

Besides those the new snapshot has added support for opening cue sheets and splitting whole disc images to individual files.

You can get the 20101205 snapshot in the downloads section. Please be aware that this is an alpha version and should not be used for daily work.

fre:ac version 1.0.17a has been released as a hotfix for the MP3 decoder in v1.0.17.

This fixes an issue where the first few seconds of an MP3 may be skipped and not passed to the encoder.

The fix is distributed via the easyUpdate online updater and also available in the downloads section.

Version 1.0.17 of fre:ac has been released today.

The new release reflects the project name change from BonkEnc to fre:ac. It includes translation updates and fixes some bugs found in previous versions.

Upgrading to the new release is strongly recommended to all users of previous versions. You can get it in the downloads section.