fre:ac
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fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD extractor for Windows, Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD, distributed under the GPL-2.0-or-later.[2]
Developer(s) | Robert Kausch |
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Initial release | May 12, 2001; 23 years ago (2001-05-12) (as BonkEnc) |
Stable release | |
Repository | github |
Written in | C, C++ |
Operating system | Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD |
Type | CD ripper |
License | GPL-2.0-or-later |
Website | www |
Besides extracting audio from compact discs (with various features including hidden track detection), fre:ac can also convert audio files from one format to another or to the same format but a lower bitrate. fre:ac is compatible with many audio formats such as Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, MP4/M4A, AAC, WAV, WMA, and more.[3][4] fre:ac uses the CDex library to convert from CDs and uses freedb to retrieve artist/song information from the internet which is written to the files as various types of ID3 tags; this library supports cdparanoia which aims to improve audio quality.[5] The user interface is multilingual with 43 languages and is able to be a portable install on a USB drive.