fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20181201a has been released and is now available for download!

This release adds a Notifier extension that can play a sound or display a message when a conversion is finished which was an often requested feature.

The 20181201a hotfix for the initial 20181201 release fixes broken CD ripping functionality.

Other changes in this release are:

• Improved tagging support
  • Read/write ID3v2 from/to .wav files
  • Read cue sheets embedded in ID3v2 tags
• Improved freaccmd command line interface
  • Select options can now be specified ignoring case (e.g. VBR and vbr are now interchangeable)
  • Fixes for arguments parsing on non-Windows systems
• Other improvements
  • Added option to switch stereo channels in Channel Converter DSP
  • Added support for accent colors on macOS Mojave
  • Greatly improved UI looks and behavior on Haiku
  • Respect GDK_SCALE environment variable on X11 systems
  • Extension component names are now translatable
• Various bug fixes
  • Fixed crash when using the channel converter to convert mono to stereo
  • Fixed output file writing when using FAAC in SuperFast mode
  • Fixed encoding mono MP3s with LAME
  • Fixed issues writing MP4 files when <directory> pattern is used
  • Improved performance when reading large MP4/M4A files

Upgrading to the 20181201a release is strongly recommended for users of previous alpha or snapshot releases. All users of the stable release of fre:ac are encouraged to try this alpha instead. Please report issues on the GitHub issue tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

The new release is available in the downloads section.