fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20180710 has been released and is now available for download!

The conversion engine has been updated to allow parallel conversions with different settings, improve automatic ripping usability with multiple drives and allow song playback while a conversion is running.

Additionally, the new release now contains the faster CRC algorithms mentioned in the blog to improve FLAC and Monkey's Audio processing speed, comes with improved configuration dialogs for external codecs and includes a reworked donation dialog with support for additional payment methods.

This release also fixes several bugs and comes with a lot of polishing for the upcoming fre:ac v1.1 beta and should be very close to beta quality already.

Upgrading to the 20180710 release is 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.

A second preview release of the SuperFast multi-threaded codec drivers for fre:ac is now available. These components use multiple codec instances in parallel to provide faster processing on systems with multiple CPU cores.

This update adds support for the FDK-AAC and Speex encoders, tunes parameters to improve Opus and Core Audio AAC quality and fixes some minor issues.

The preview release is available at GitHub.

fre:ac version 1.0.32 has been released on 13th March 2018.

This release includes some changes to improve usability and fixes several minor issues:

• 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

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.32 is strongly recommended for all users of earlier versions. You can download it at the downloads section of this site.

fre:ac v1.1 Alpha 20180306 has been released and is now available for download!

This release expands on the DSP framework groundwork laid in the previous alpha. It adds new DSP components for sample format and channel conversion and does such conversions automatically where necessary. As a result, you can now join tracks with different sample formats into a single output file.

The new release also adds an RNNoise based DSP component featuring noise reduction for speech and the Rubber Band component which lets you speed up or slow down recordings without changing the pitch.

In addition, and besides numerous minor improvements, the new version includes the latest codec versions and fixes several minor issues.

Upgrading to the 20180306 release is recommended for users of previous alpha or snapshot releases. Please be aware, however, that this is a preview release and not meant for daily work. Please report issues on the SourceForge bug tracker or by email to support@freac.org.

The new release is available in the downloads section.

fre:ac version 1.0.31a has been released on 28th November 2017.

This release updates the FAAC encoder to fix a bug with Joint Stereo MP4/AAC encoding.

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.31a is strongly recommended to all users of earlier versions. You can download it at the downloads section of this site.

fre:ac version 1.0.31 has been released on 24th November 2017.

This release fixes issues detecting USB CD drives after a recent Windows update, improves audio format compatibility and updates the included codecs to the latest versions.

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.31 is recommended to all users of earlier versions. You can download it at the downloads section of this site.