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fre:ac version 1.0.32 fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter for various formats. It supports audio CD ripping and converts the following audio formats: - MP3 - using the LAME MP3 encoder (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) - using the mpg123 decoder (http://www.mpg123.org/) - MP4/M4A AAC - using the FAAC/FAAD2 codec (http://www.audiocoding.com/) - Xiph Foundation codecs - Vorbis (http://www.vorbis.com/) - FLAC (http://flac.sourceforge.net/) - Windows Media Audio (http://www.microsoft.com/) - Windows Wave Files (http://www.microsoft.com/) - various other formats - Bonk Audio (http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/bonk/) - Apple AIFF (decoding only) (http://www.apple.com/) - Creative Voice (decoding only) (http://www.creative.com/) - Sun Au (decoding only) (http://www.oracle.com/) - TwinVQ VQF (with plugin, encoding only) (http://www.ntt.co.jp/) fre:ac uses the CDRip Ripping Library for audio ripping. Code from FAAD2 is copyright (c) Nero AG, www.nero.com Installation ------------ fre:ac is distributed in two variants, an .exe file containing a setup wizard or alternatively a .zip file that contains just the application without an installer. If you downloaded the .exe installer, simply run it and the setup wizard will guide you through the installation process creating start menu icons that will run fre:ac. If you downloaded the .zip package, please extract/move the contents to a location of your choice and run freac.exe to start fre:ac. Requirements ------------ Requirements for running fre:ac: Supported operating systems: - Windows XP/Vista/7/8.x/10 (older Windows version might work with some limitations) Minimum hardware requirements: - Intel Pentium III or AMD Athlon XP CPU - 256 MB RAM - 50 MB free disk space Recommended hardware specs: - Intel Core i3 or AMD Phenom II CPU - 1 GB RAM - 1 GB free disk space Additional requirements for compiling the sources: - MinGW GCC v4.0+ (http://www.mingw.org/) or Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 - smooth v0.8.71.8 (http://www.smooth-project.org/) Additional optional software: - TwinVQ is used if installed - Winamp plug-ins can be used if they are present in the 'plugins' directory Known problems -------------- - There are the following restrictions on the input file format: - BladeEnc: - audio must be at 32, 44.1 or 48 kHz - FAAC: - audio must be at 8, 11.025, 12, 16, 22.05, 24, 32, 44.1, 48, 64, 88.2 or 96 kHz - FLAC: - the FLAC reference encoder is limited to a maximum sample resolution of 24 bit - TwinVQ: - audio must be at 22.05 kHz (24 and 32 kBit) or 44.1 kHz (48 kBit) - Resampling is only supported with LAME. Input files must be at the desired output sampling rate unless you are encoding with LAME. - fre:ac is currently limited to a maximum of 2 audio channels History ------- Version 1.0.32 (March 2018) - added Serbian and Chinese (traditional) translations for the installer - changed default output pattern to <artist> - <album> - <track> - <title> - improved behaviour of bitrate selection controls - show joblist duration in hours if longer than 1 hour - fixed issues with encoding to single file when suggested file name becomes too long - fixed handling of empty track metadata field - fixed handling of invalid Xing/LAME tags - fixed FAAC quality setting - fixed missing album art mimetype in MP4 metadata - fixed TwinVQ and WMA encoders being mixed up in config dialog - upgraded mpg123 to version 1.25.10 - upgrade to MP4v2 v2.0.0 Version 1.0.31a (November 2017) - updated Bulgarian translation - updated FAAC encoder to fix Joint Stereo bug Version 1.0.31 (November 2017) - updated Italian translation - changed default output pattern to <artist> - <album>\<artist> - <album> - <track> - <title> - default to using WMA 9.2 instead of WMA 10 Pro - added support for reading WAV files with unknown length - fixed rare crash when decoding certain Ogg Vorbis files - fixed some freedb connection issues - upgraded CDRip to version 1.27 to fix detection of USB drives - upgraded LAME to version 3.100 - upgraded FAAC to version 1.29.9.2 - upgraded FAAD2 to version 2.8.6 - upgraded mpg123 to version 1.25.7 - upgraded Ogg library to version 1.3.3 Version 1.0.30 (September 2017) - minor improvements for CDDB submit dialog - guard against disc insert notification being received multiple times - upgraded FAAC to version 1.29.7.4 Version 1.0.29 (August 2017) - now using the mpg123 library for MP3 decoding - changed default FLAC blocksize to 4096 samples to match official FLAC tools - removed support for obsolete Main and LTP AAC profiles - fixed progress not being updated for long running conversions - fixed handling of stray tabs in title info - upgraded CDRip to version 1.26 to fix handling of drives with letter A: - upgraded FAAC to version 1.29.7 - upgraded FAAD2 to version 2.8.1 Version 1.0.28 (February 2017) - updated Chinese (traditional) translation - configuration is now saved in freac.xml - fixed crash on some invalid cover art - upgraded FLAC to version 1.3.2 Version 1.0.27 (December 2016) - added Cantonese (Hong Kong) and Corsican language support - minor improvements for CDDB submit dialog - improved detection of cover art mime types - display error message only once when adding multiple files while converting - fixed erroneous message about non existing folder if it is drive's root - fixed issues handling CDDB entries with line breaks - fixed inability to send new CDDB entries when there was a disc-id collision - fixed CDDB query dialog appearing off screen when main window is minimized Version 1.0.26 (October 2015) - updated Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic) translations - improved detection of concatenated MP3 files - sped up opening and saving Ogg Vorbis files with cover art - read non-standard TOTALTRACKS and TOTALDISCS Vorbis Comment fields - fill number of tracks metadata field when ripping audio CDs - do not crash when Vorbis encoder fails to initialize - fixed crash when trying to open invalid Ogg Vorbis files - fixed crash when trying to create Ogg Vorbis files with very large cover art - fixed crash when scrolling joblist while a tooltip is visible - fixed Xing/LAME MP3 information tag parsing - fixed edit box text disappearing in some cases in scaled mode Version 1.0.25 (September 2015) - updated Italian, Swedish, Basque and Valencian translations - added MP4/AAC and Ogg Vorbis cover art support - recognize decimal VBR quality values in LAME settings - save playlists and cuesheets along with output file in single file mode - fixed existing files being overwritten in "Output to input folder" mode - fixed LAME encoder not accepting arbitrary sample rates in auto resampling mode - fixed possible crash during CDDB queries - fixed crashes in MAD and FLAC decoder components - fixed crash when trying to decode WMA files without duration field set - fixed cover art not being written to WMA files without a description present - upgraded CDRip to version 1.25 to fix drive detection issues Version 1.0.24 (July 2015) - added mouse jitter tolerance for tooltips - added sample rate check to FAAC encoder - do not eject discs when user stopped conversion - retain disc number info when converting - fixed visual glitches on Windows 8.x and 10 - flat titlebar style on Windows 8.x and 10 - made CDDB query dialog modal again - upgraded Vorbis to version 1.3.5 + aoTuV beta 6.03 (2014) Version 1.0.23 (November 2014) - added Basque and Serbian (Cyrillic) language support - updated Chinese (traditional) and Czech translations - added Basque user guide - added support for reading Windows Wave files in IEEE float format - added additional genres as defined by Winamp 5.6 - the main window is no longer closed when pressing escape - fixed stability issues when decoding MP3 files - fixed crash when writing cover art to WMA tags - fixed drag & drop target area not matching joblist - fixed failure to delete read-only files with "Delete files after encoding" option - fixed interpretation of non-standard UTF-16 strings in ID3v2 tags - upgraded FLAC to version 1.3.1 Version 1.0.22 (July 2014) - added Afrikaans language support - updated Spanish, Slovak, Serbian and Lithuanian translations - added support for disc drives with drive letters A: and B: - fixed decoding of MAIN profile AAC files - fixed last track of CD-Extra discs being two seconds too long - fixed writing invalid genre value to ID3v1 tags - fixed CJK editor appearing offset in Windows Vista/7/8 default designs - fixed crash when selecting output plugin - fixed crash when encountering malformed Vorbis comments - fixed blurry GUI with high resolution displays - fixed screen artifacts left by tooltips when removing tracks - fixed uninstaller not working when run directly - upgraded Vorbis to aoTuV beta 6.03 (2014) - upgraded Ogg library to version 1.3.2 - upgraded CDRip to version 1.24 Version 1.0.21a (July 2013) - fixed WMA output files being deleted after encoding - fixed edit field menu buttons being non-clickable - fixed rare FLAC encoder problem at compression levels 7 and 8 - fixed online updater not working after smooth library upgrade - fixed compilation with Microsoft Visual C++ Version 1.0.21 (July 2013) - updated Romanian and Swedish translations - changed default settings for FLAC Version 1.0.21 Beta 1 (June 2013) - updated Russian translation - added support for large fonts - fixed ID3v2 cover data not being displayed in iTunes - fixed random crashes at program exit - fixed WMA decoder not using the best output format available - fixed ASPI error message being displayed on systems without optical drives - upgraded FLAC to version 1.3.0 - upgraded Ogg library to version 1.3.1 - upgraded to smooth v0.8.71.0 - some minor fixes Version 1.0.20a (March 2012) - fixed unintended dependency on Intel runtime libraries - fixed bogus error messages on AMD CPUs Version 1.0.20 (March 2012) - added Bulgarian language support - added Spanish user guide - updated Polish and Romanian translations - upgraded LAME to version 3.99.5 - upgraded Ogg library to version 1.3.0 - some minor fixes Version 1.0.19 (May 2011) - updated Serbian translation - fixed possible MP3 decoder crashes - upgraded Vorbis to aoTuV beta 6.03 - minor other fixes Version 1.0.18 (April 2011) - updated French, Czech, Dutch and Finnish translations - added CD text support for sampler CDs - added support for gapless MP3 decoding - added support for decoding uncompressed AIFF-C files - changed default output directory to "My Music" folder - fixed skipping of first few seconds of some MP3s and raw AAC files - fixed and improved decoding of raw audio formats WAVE, AIFF and AU - upgraded Vorbis to aoTuV beta 6.02 - upgraded Ogg library to version 1.2.2 - some minor fixes Version 1.0.17 (November 2010) - renamed project to fre:ac - free audio converter - added Arabic language support - updated Japanese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Finnish translations - fixed extremely slow startup when running from network volumes - fixed reading of WMA Track and TrackNumber metadata items - upgraded Ogg library to version 1.2.1 - some minor fixes Version 1.0.16 (August 2010) - updated Dutch translation - added Dutch and Czech translations for the installer - select a reasonable WMA codec by default - fixed problems with text edit fields - raised maximum file name length on NT systems - some minor fixes Version 1.0.15 (July 2010) - added Windows Media Audio encoder/decoder - added support for wildcards in arguments to BEcmd - added ripping speed configuration option - added <filetype> file name pattern - updated most translations - added several translations for the installer - added Portuguese user guide - improved GUI performance especially on Windows Vista and Windows 7 - fixed handling of garbage data before the first MP3 frame - fixed LAME ABR preset configuration - fixed problem opening MP3 and FLAC files on Windows 9x with Unicows - fixed CD ripping problems on some Windows 7 x64 systems - upgraded LAME to version 3.98.4 - upgraded CDRip to version 1.23 - upgraded Ogg library to version 1.2.0 - some minor fixes Version 1.0.14 (October 2009) - added Hebrew language support - updated Vietnamese and Czech translations - now using the MAD decoder for MP3 - interface language is now selected automatically at first startup - added total time and progress display - added support for LAME info tags - added Vietnamese translation for the installer - fixed automatic reading of CD contents on disc insert - fixed several problems regarding Winamp input plugins - fixed icon display on Windows Vista and Windows 7 - fixed freeze-ups on Windows 7 - fixed possible freeze-up at program startup - significant encoding speed improvements - upgrade to MP4v2 v1.9.1 - some minor bug fixes Version 1.0.13 (July 2009) - added Vietnamese and Galician language support - added Czech user guide - updated Chinese (traditional), Czech and Serbian translations - making better use of multi-core CPUs when encoding/decoding - miscellaneous other speed optimizations - removed outdated presets for LAME encoder - fixed a possible crash at the end of encoding using LAME - fixed a possible crash opening Bonk files - fixed BEcmd argument handling - fixed problems with easyUpdate - upgraded Ogg library to version 1.1.4 Version 1.0.12 (May 2009) - added Croatian language support - updated Japanese and Russian translations - fixed CDDB querying when both, local and remote CDDB are enabled - fixed problems with easyUpdate running on Windows Vista - fixed startup problems on Windows NT 4.0 - disabled compression of all executables to fix incorrect threat warnings from virus scanners - upgraded Vorbis to aoTuV beta 5.7 Version 1.0.11 (February 2009) - updated Italian, Serbian and Swedish translations - added <directory> pattern to allow preserving existing directory structures - fixed handling of non-ASCII characters when opening MP3 files with multiple tags - fixed ID3lib to read and write correct ID3v2.4 tags - fixed error resulting in not decoding FLAC files to the end in some situations - fixed error opening large MP4 files - upgraded FAAC to version 1.28 - upgraded FAAD2 to version 2.7 - upgrade to MP4v2 v2.0 alpha Version 1.0.10 (December 2008) - updated Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish (Latin American) and Serbian translations - added an option to replace existing comments with default comment - added "encode to single file" checkbox to main window - total length of all tracks in joblist is now shown above the joblist - windows can now be closed by pressing escape - CDDB queries are now enabled by default - fixed creation of empty directories when encoding in single file mode - display an error message if tracks have different sample formats in single file mode - disabled compression of uninstaller to fix incorrect threat warnings from virus scanners - added German and Japanese translations for the installer - upgraded LAME to version 3.98.3 - upgraded Vorbis to aoTuV beta 5.61 - fixed some crashes Version 1.0.9 (September 2008) - updated Serbian, Polish and Swedish translations - completely reworked LAME configuration dialog - allowed floating point values for LAME VBR quality - allowed to cancel encoding if an output file already exists - fixed playlist directory being created with playlist option unchecked - fixed handling of comments in metadata - fixed text encoding selection not working when CDDB query was started manually - upgraded LAME to version 3.98.1 - upgraded CDRip to version 1.21 (with cdparanoia III version 10.2) - some minor bug fixes Version 1.0.8 (July 2008) - updated Russian translation - minor translation and manual fixes - label/publisher and ISRC information is now preserved during conversion - fixed random crashes at program exit - fixed quality level display in Vorbis encoder configuration - slightly improved CDDB entry validity check - made preset 'Standard' the default for LAME - upgraded LAME to version 3.98 - upgraded Vorbis to aoTuV beta 5.5 - minor bug fixes Version 1.0.7 (March 2008) - fixed creation of cuesheets for multiple tracks in a single file - fixed crash on trying to decode invalid Ogg files - fixed possibly incomplete FLAC decoding - fixed decoding of AAC files with ID3v2 tags - fixed easyUpdate not working in previous releases - some other fixes Version 1.0.7 Beta 2 (March 2008) - updated French and Russian translations - added support for AAC synchronizing (needed to read ripped AAC streams) - fixed support for various artists CDs - fixed passing of unsynchronized ID3v2 tags to the LAME decoder - fixed picture metadata related crash in FLAC encoder - fixed possible crash in FLAC decoder - fixed large fonts support Version 1.0.7 Beta 1 (February 2008) - added Estonian language support - added Russian tutorial - updated Japanese and Russian translations - added screenshots for the Greek tutorial - fixed HTTP proxy authentication - fixed error when changing size of joblist columns - upgraded to smooth v0.8.70.0 Version 1.0.6 (January 2008) - added Valencian and Portuguese language support - added Greek user guide - updated Turkish translation - dialog window positions are now relative to the main window position - changed resizing mechanism to fit main window to screen on startup - upgraded Bonk to version 0.12 - smaller bugfixes Version 1.0.5 (November 2007) - updated Russian translation - added <installdrive> pattern for use in output directory name - fixed various CDDB issues - fixed BEcmd crashes - improved CDDB data sanity check - upgraded FLAC to version 1.2.1 - upgraded FAAC to version 1.26 - upgraded FAAD2 to version 2.6.1 - upgrade to MPEG4IP v1.6.1 - fixes for compiling with GCC 4.2 - smaller bugfixes Version 1.0.4 (July 2007) - updated Slovak and Swedish translations - fixed too small fonts displayed when large fonts are selected - fixed encoding empty tracks when no CD is inserted - NT SCSI mode is now used by default to access CD drives on NT systems - smaller improvements and fixes Version 1.0.3 (June 2007) - added Catalan language support - updated French and Greek translations - fixed Vorbis (and FLAC) comment tag reading - fixed not writing Xing header when using LAME presets - fixed LAME writing invalid Xing headers when ID3 tags exist - fixed crash when trying to open unsupported Sun Audio (.au) files - improved support for network files and directories - show more detailed error messages when unable to open a file - some smaller improvements and bug fixes Version 1.0.2 (April 2007) - added German and Italian user guides - updated Danish, Polish and Romanian translations - added timeout parameter to command line encoder - fixed unwanted downsampling when encoding to low bitrate MP3 - fixed joblist context menu not working - installer improvements - command line encoder fixes - some other fixes Version 1.0.1 (March 2007) - fixed writing of bad ID3v2 tags when iconv.dll is not available - fixed writing of ID3v1 tags when encoding VBR or ABR MP3s - fixed total progress bar not working correctly with many tracks in joblist - fixed crash when encoding to single MP4 file - lots of fixes to the command line encoder Version 1.0 (February 2007) - added Romanian language support - added a user manual - fixed crash when clicking "Edit language file" in the config dialog - fixed reading of low bitrate MP3 files - added CD ripping support to command line encoder - fixed some command line encoder bugs - fixed bugs in the graphical installer - upgraded FLAC to version 1.1.4 - upgraded FAAD2 to version 2.5 - upgraded FAAC to version 1.25 - upgraded Vorbis to aoTuV beta 5 - some minor bug fixes Special thanks to ----------------- - Paul Francis Harrison for developing the Bonk format - Albert L. Faber for his excellent CDRip Ripping Library - the translators: Eric Le Carre (French), Marco D'Amato and Roberto Boriotti (Italian), REIKA (Japanese), Federico Reddig and Will (Spanish), Jose Maria Vera Somoza (Spanish, Latin American), Nikolaos-Ioannis Galanis (Greek), Evgeny Kozlov (Russian), Henryk Ning and Meng Pang Wang (Chinese, traditional), Joeyong Jen (Chinese, simplified), Michal Trzebiatowski and Darek Rzeznicki (Polish), Peter Toth (Hungarian), Andrij Ilechko (Ukrainian), Wim Garreyn and Thomas De Rocker (Dutch), Neboj�a Nikolic (Serbian), Jan Parttimaa (Finnish), Julius Faltus (Czech), Escada (Portuguese, Brazilian), Odyssey (Korean), Jan Arni Jacobsen (Danish), Mikael Hiort af Ornäs and Anton Mjoernebrant (Swedish), Peter Krajcar (Slovak), Andreas Normann Aanonsen (Norwegian), Vincent Rateau (Esperanto), Cako (Turkish), Naglis Jonaitis (Lithuanian), Borca Alin and Laurentiu Bubuianu (Romanian), El libre (Catalan), Agustín Bou (Valencian), Jose Goncalves (Portuguese), Meelis Pasieko (Estonian), Goran Bekic (Croatian), Eduardo Estévez (Galician), Phan Anh (Vietnamese), Ilan Tsmeret (Hebrew), Eman Ali Fhoula (Arabic), Martin Deyanov and KalinM (Bulgarian), Cois Wiid (Afrikaans), Xabier Aramendi (Basque), Kin Kwok (Cantonese, Hong Kong), Patriccollu di Santa Maria è Sichè (Corsican) - Hans-Juergen Bardenhagen for his help and suggestions for the FAAC encoder - all the testers and everyone who submitted bug reports ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The official fre:ac homepage: http://www.freac.org/ [email protected], Robert Kausch