fre:ac 1.1.6 – Neowin – 1st DVD Ripper

fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper supporting various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.

With fre:ac, you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or WMA files for use with your hardware player or convert files that cannot be played with other audio software. You can even convert entire music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure. Built-in CD ripper supports CDDB/freedb online CD database. It will automatically query the song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.

Characteristics:

Converter for MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats
Built-in CD ripper with CDDB/freedb title database support
Portable application, install it on a USB key and take it with you
Multi-core optimized encoders to speed up conversions on modern PCs
Full Unicode support for tags and filenames
Easy to learn and use, always offers expert options when you need them
Multilingual user interface available in 40 languages
Completely free and open source without a hitch

fre:ac 1.1.6 changelog:

Added native Windows support on ARM64 architecture

New features

added support for editing lyrics in tag editor
added support for creating cue sheets and playlists with freaccmd

Improvements

improved performance of adding proprietary video and audio files (DTS, DSD, etc.) to the task list
playlists can now be added to the task list by drag and drop
added and placeholders for use in filename patterns
added optional composer, conductor, tempo, musical key and ISRC columns to the task list
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 pre-emphasis flag support in cue sheets

Bug fixes

fixed possible crash when querying the CDDB database
fixed possible crash in FAAD2 decoder when trying to open unsupported files
fixed faulty decoding of some 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 with extracting CD tracks when the output filename pattern is
fix AccurateRip report verification errors for hidden audio track one
fixed setting to replace skipped spaces when writing cover art and log files
fixed setting to remove Unicode characters not respected when writing cover art and log files
fixed tag editor fields for media type, catalog number and barcode are limited to 12 characters
fixed crash when decoding some WMA files on Windows
fixed drag and drop not working after online update on Windows