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fre:ac

fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper. Created by Robert Kausch

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fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various formats and codecs. It will convert between MP3, MP4/M4A, FLAC, Vorbis, Opus, AAC, WAV, WMA and other formats.

With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to FLAC or MP3 files for use with your mobile 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. More Info »

The integrated CD ripper supports the freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.

Portable version: https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/freac_portable

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Features

AAC CD Ripper Audio conversion Batch processing Multiple tracks at once OGG Opus codec support Portable Add a feature

Categories

Audio & Music CD/DVD Tools

Tags

cd-to-mp3 flac-converter flac-to-mp3 mp3-converter mp4 musepack wav-to-mp3 wavpack wma-to-mp3

fre:ac (sometimes referred to as BonkEnc, freac) was added by Kahlil88 in Apr 2009 and the latest update was made in May 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Nov 2019. It's possible to update the information on fre:ac or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Main window converting FLAC files to MP3

Dark mode is supported since fre:ac 1.1

The integrated tag editor

fre:ac's configuration dialog

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about fre:ac · Mar 2017 · Report as spam

It never failed me, and these moved me to translate the program to the spanish (Spain).
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