fre:ac snapshot 20170729 has been released and is now available for download!

The new release includes a simple protocol viewer and improves handling of several audio formats. It changes the way virtual .aiff files generated for audio CD tracks on macOS are handled to prevent the CD drive from constantly repositioning the laser, allows decoding some .m4a files with defective headers that previous versions rejected and adds support for decoding ATRAC-1 files.

The new version also introduces some performance optimizations that can speed up parallel conversions by up to 5% and updates all codecs to the latest versions, most notably the Opus codec to the new 1.2 release.

In addition, fre:ac 20170729 includes lots of minor improvements and fixes for issues found in earlier versions of fre:ac.

Upgrading to the 20170729 release is strongly recommended if you are using an earlier snapshot. Please be aware, however, that this is a preview release and not meant for daily work. Please report issues on the SourceForge bug tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

The new snapshot is available in the downloads section.

fre:ac snapshot 20170317 has been released and is now available for download!

This release adds support for album artist tag fields and improves cuesheet and playlist handling by allowing to write separate cuesheets/playlists per output folder and by adding support for reading cuesheets stored in tags.

It also adds a heuristic to infer title information from file and folder names in the absence of tags and makes all supported codecs available in the freaccmd command line interface.

In addition, the new release includes numerous minor improvements, some codec updates and several fixes for issues found in earlier versions of fre:ac.

Upgrading to the 20170317 release is strongly recommended if you are using an earlier snapshot. Please be aware, however, that this is a preview release and not meant for daily work. Please report issues on the SourceForge bug tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

The new snapshot is available in the downloads section.

fre:ac version 1.0.28 has been released on 19th February 2017.

The new release updates the FLAC codec to version 1.3.2, updates the traditional Chinese translation and fixes a bug related to cover art handling.

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.28 is recommended to all users of earlier versions. You can download it at the downloads section of this site.

fre:ac version 1.0.27 has been released on 4th December 2016. This release updates translations and fixes several bugs found in earlier versions.

The new release fixes several issues related to freedb/CDDB queries and submissions and improves internal handling of cover-art.

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.27 is strongly recommended to all users of earlier versions. You can download it at the downloads section of this site.

fre:ac snapshot 20161129 has been released and is now available for download!

This release adds support for multi-channel Opus files and updates codec libraries to the latest versions.

In addition, the new release fixes several issues found in earlier versions. Most notably, an issue where fre:ac hung on OS X 10.11 El Capitan when querying the freedb database.

Upgrading to the 20161129 release is strongly recommended if you are using an earlier snapshot. Please be aware, however, that this is a preview release and not meant for daily work. Please report issues on the SourceForge bug tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

The new snapshot is available in the downloads section.

fre:ac snapshot 20151122 has been released and is now available for download!

This release adds the meh! - multi encoder hub component that allows ripping/converting to multiple different output formats at once. For example, you can now rip to FLAC files for archival and MP3s for mobile listening in one go.

The Linux and FreeBSD versions can now make use of Apple's Core Audio AAC and ALAC encoders if iTunes or QuickTime is installed using Wine. The Windows version now allows setting the process priority in the configuration dialog.

The new release also adds support for multi-channel AAC and ALAC as well as VCLT playlists and fixes several stability and freezing issues.

Upgrading to the 20151122 release is strongly recommended if you are using an earlier snapshot. Please be aware, however, that this is a preview release and not meant for daily work. Please report issues on the SourceForge bug tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

The new snapshot is available in the downloads section.