Continuous builds of fre:ac for macOS |
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Saturday, 10 April 2021 13:28 |
Continuous builds of fre:ac are now available for the macOS as well, completing the effort to make these automated builds available for all major desktop operating systems. These builds give you a chance to try the latest changes without having to wait for the next release, for example to benefit from bug fixes or take a peek at the latest feature additions.
Continuous builds are currently provided as .dmg images for Intel Macs running macOS 10.9 or later. A variant optimized for Apple Silicon Macs and macOS 11.0 will be added later.
You can grab the latest continuous build from the downloads page or from GitHub. |
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Continuous builds of fre:ac for Windows |
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Tuesday, 23 February 2021 02:59 |
Thanks to GitHub Actions, continuous builds of fre:ac are now available for the Windows platform. These automated builds give you a chance to try the latest changes without having to wait for the next release, for example to benefit from bug fixes or take a peek at the latest feature additions.
The continuous builds are provided as .zip packages for the x86 (32 bit) and x86-64 (64 bit) architectures.
You can grab the latest continuous build from the downloads page or from GitHub. |
fre:ac v1.1.4 |
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Monday, 15 February 2021 01:25 |
fre:ac version 1.1.4 has been released on 14th February 2021.
This is a service focussing on minor improvements and bug fixes. fre:ac 1.1.3 adds support for HDCD decoding, improves tagging support and usability of the tag editor, updates codecs to the latest versions and fixes several issues found in earlier releases:
- Improvements
- Improved support for reading CD-Text
- Added an HDCD decoder DSP filter
- Added catalog number and barcode fields to tag editor
- Added file type associations to macOS app, so fre:ac is offered for opening audio files
- Added quality (VBR) setting to FDK-AAC configuration dialog
- Improved MP3, AAC and Opus encoding performance by up to 30%
- Improved multi-monitor support on X11 based systems
- Discs of multi-disc albums are now shown separately in tag editor album mode
- Update only changed fields when making edits in tag editor album mode
- Added support for Replay Gain values in MP4 and WMA metadata
- Do not override settings with default values when using freaccmd's --config option
- Bug fixes
- Fixed invalid length written to very long Opus and Speex files (longer than 12 ½ hours at 48 kHz)
- Fixed decoding of some very short Opus, Vorbis and Speex files
- Fixed written MP4 chapters being invisible to some applications when using Nero AAC
- Fixed hang/crash when opening WavPack, Musepack, TAK and OptimFROG files with chapters
- Fixed issues submitting CDDB information for new CDs (without existing entries)
- Fixed issues handling long path/file names on Windows
- Fixed output sample rate being limited to 192 kHz
- Fixed freaccmd randomly failing to process files in rare cases
- Fixed bad user interface colors on some Linux distributions
Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.4 is strongly recommended for users of earlier releases.
The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org. |
fre:ac is now available for Apple Silicon Macs |
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Tuesday, 17 November 2020 10:35 |
Just in time for the first Apple Silicon Macs being delivered to end users, fre:ac is now available for this new generation of Macs.
To support the different types of Macs, the macOS version of fre:ac is now available in two flavors:
- For Intel and PowerPC Macs running macOS 10.x, download freac-1.1.x-macos10.dmg
- For Intel and Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 11.0, download freac-1.1.x-macos11.dmg
Head over to the downloads section to get the Apple Silicon version or any other variant of fre:ac. |
fre:ac v1.1.3 |
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Sunday, 11 October 2020 15:55 |
fre:ac version 1.1.3 has been released on 11th October 2020.
This is a service with only minor feature updates and improvements. Instead, the focus is on compatibility and bug fixes. fre:ac 1.1.3 adds support for macOS 11.0 Big Sur, updates codecs to the latest versions and fixes several issues found in earlier releases:
- General changes
- Added support for macOS 11.0 Big Sur
- Switched to using GNUdb as the default CDDB database service
- Improvements
- Command line codec configuration now allows specifying additional arguments
- Improved cue sheet encoding detection to support system codepage and UTF-8 without BOM
- freaccmd now splits cue sheets to individual tracks unless an output file is specified
- freaccmd now supports a --split-chapters option to split files into individual chapters
- Added <profile> placeholder for output folder configuration setting, resolving to user profile
- Added file type and audio CD associations to Linux/FreeBSD and Windows Store app
- Added an option to suppress "No entry found" messages for automatic CDDB queries
- Improved detection of sampler CDs when querying CDDB information
- Bug fixes
- Fixed possible conversion thread hangs when using external encoders
- Fixed possible crash related to drag & drop handling on Windows
- Fixed crash when writing fields containing only whitespace to certain tag formats
- Fixed glitches in WAV/AIFF output when processing samples outside the -1.0/+1.0 range
- Fixed possible hangs when opening WAV/AIFF files > 2 GB or with a broken chunk structure
- Fixed inability to open WAV/AIFF files with long paths on Windows
- Fixed writing wrong offsets to single file cue sheets when the resampling DSP filter is enabled
- Fixed writing invalid chapter offsets to Opus files with source sample rates other than 48 kHz
- Fixed writing invalid MP3 bitstreams in rare cases in SuperFast mode
- Fixed wrong length detection for MP3 files with invalid chapter data
- Fixed parsing of cue sheets with minute/second values missing leading zeros or longer 99min
- Fixed parsing of embedded cue sheets without FILE designations
- Fixed ripping progress for other drives stalling while one drive is ejecting
- Fixed inability to pause or stop single output file verification
- Fixed log files being archived despite disabling the corresponding option
- Fixed various issues with multi-monitor support on macOS
- Fixed user interface glitches after closing dialogs in tabbed mode on macOS
- Fixed Shift+Pos1/End shortcuts being interpreted by the joblist and edit fields simultaneously
Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1.3 is strongly recommended for users of any earlier releases.
The new release is available in the downloads section. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org. |
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