fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper which integrates various popular formats and encoders. It currently supports MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC and Bonk files. fre:ac makes it easy to convert your audio CDs to MP3 or WMA files which you can use in your hardware player or with your favorite audio software. The program supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database and CDText and automatically writes song information to ID3V2 or Vorbis comment tags. This branch contains snapshots and beta releases of the active development tree that will eventually lead to fre:ac version 1.1.
Rated 20/50 by DudeBoyz at Apr 10, 2011
1.0.16 is the last version that I have had success with. Both 1.0.17 and now 1.0.18 I have had problems with, so I will stick with 1.0.16 and probably go no further for the foreseeable future. I liked it better when the product was called Bonk Encoder anyway, and 1.0.16 was, I believe, the last version still named Bonk Encoder. Not sure where this product is going, but it seems to be leaving me, and stability, behind. :)
Rated 50/50 by pjafrombbay at May 11, 2011
DudeBoyz I have had no problems running fre:ac on my AMD + Windows 7 Home Premium x64 based PC. It is IMHO one of the best CD rippers available. The fact that it is free is just a bonus. I have just up-graded to this latest version but not tried it yet. That said, I have no reason to believe it will cause any problems. I hardly ever give software products a 5* rating but this one deserves it. Regards, Peter
Rated 30/50 by DudeBoyz at May 12, 2011
1019 is performing better than 1018 to be sure, with no crashes when dragging and dropping to the joblist, but 1016 is still working faster and it seems better. But it does appear 1019 is getting back on track. Historically, I'm one of this apps biggest fans - it just veered off course a bit over time is all. Until and unless this app gets to be as good as 1016, I can't grade it higher.
Rated 50/50 by anomoly at May 12, 2011
I've always loved this program but the last two times I grabbed the zip version from the site, the plugins folder is renamed differently from the last version I grabbed. Doesn't matter really because it still works.