fre:ac is a CD ripper, audio encoder and converter for various formats. It can produce MP3, MP4/M4A, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, Bonk and FLAC files. More formats are available through plug-ins. It makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3V2 or Vorbis comment tags.
License: Open-Source
Changelog
Added native support for Windows on the ARM64 architecture
New features:
Added support for editing lyrics in the tag editor
Added support for creating cue sheets and playlists with freaccmd
Improvements:
Improved performance of adding video and proprietary audio files (DTS, DSD etc.) to the joblist
Playlists can now be added to the joblist by drag & drop
Added and placeholders for use in filename patterns
Added optional composer, conductor, tempo, musical key and ISRC columns to the joblist
Added initial key field to tag editor
Added support for lyrics in ID3v2, MP4, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and WMA tags
Added support for parsing OverDrive MediaMarkers in ID3v2 tags
Added support for the pre-emphasis flag in cue sheets
Bug fixes:
Fixed possible crash upon querying the CDDB database
Fixed possible crash in FAAD2 decoder when trying to open unsupported files
Fixed faulty decoding of certain AAC files caused by a bug in the FDK-AAC decoder
Fixed possible faulty output when decoding from non-zero positions using external decoders
Fixed issue ripping CD tracks when output filename pattern is
Fixed AccurateRip reporting verification errors for hidden track one audio
Fixed setting to replace spaces not being respected when writing cover art and log files
Fixed setting to suppress Unicode characters not being respected when writing cover art and log files
Fixed tag editor fields for media type, catalog number and barcode being limited to 12 characters
Fixed freeze when decoding certain WMA files on Windows
Fixed drag & drop not working after online update on Windows
New and updated codecs:
Added native Apple Lossless decoder
Updated FFmpeg to version 5.0
Updated Monkey's Audio to version 7.23
Updated mpg123 to version 1.29.3
Updated libsamplerate to version 0.2.2
New translations:
Added Swedish and Portuguese (Brazilian) manuals
http://www.freac.org/