fre:ac - audio converter and CD ripper

fre:ac is a free and open source, multi-platform audio converter and CD ripper with an integrated tag editor

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Supports formats: MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV, and Bonk;
There is a built-in player and tag editor;
Support for playlists, checklists, and chapters;
Multithreading. fre:ac is optimized to take advantage of modern multi-core processors and will convert multiple files in parallel to speed up the conversion;
It is possible to convert to several formats at once;
It is possible to check the input and output decoded data for losses, so that they match the source;
There is a search for information about the CD in the CDDB/freedb database;
Command line support;
fre:ac provides full support for the Unicode character set. Thus, it can handle not only Latin letters, but also Japanese, Cyrillic, Arabic, or Indian;
It is possible to create your own configurations with the settings you need;
fre:ac can combine multiple tracks into a single output file;
You can configure notifications.

The software fre:ac is available for installation on Linux, Windows and macOS.

Installation method	OS
Snap	Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, CentOS, KDE Neon, openSUSE, elementary OS, Manjaro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Flatpak	Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora, CentOS, KDE Neon, openSUSE, elementary OS, Manjaro, Red Hat Enterprise Linux
AppImage	Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, CentOS, elementaryOS, Linux Mint and others
EXE, Microsoft Store	Windows
DMG	macOS

*Ubuntu (GNOME), Kubuntu (KDE), Xubuntu (XFCE), Lubuntu (LXDE)

Install Software via Snap package

sudo snap install freac

Install Software via Flatpak package

flatpak install flathub org.freac.freac

Install Software via AppImage package

Install Software via EXE package on Windows

Install Software via DMG package for macOS

Language Interface:	English, Russian, Deutsch, Spanish, French and others
Description version:	1.1.4
Developer:	Robert Kausch
Programming language:	C++
License:	GPL v2
Software website:	freac.org