fre:ac Development Snapshot 20110524

4.7 out of 5 stars 4.7 (13 votes)

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Windows 7/2000/9x/Home Server/Server 2003/Server 2008/Vista/XP / Open Source / 1,328 downloads

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.

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    fre:ac

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    Yes

  • Latest Changes

    - Added support for multiple configurations

    - Added preview to CDDB match selection dialog

    - Added support for Ogg FLAC files

    - Added support for reading and writing Vorbis files with .oga extension

    - Added {disc} replacement pattern for ouput file names

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  1. 3 out of 5 stars
    DudeBoyz

    Reviewing CVS 20100727 (Jul 27, 2010)

    Some interface and slow-down issues are showing up in this latest release. Dragging and dropping entries onto the app often results in screen corruption, which sometimes can be dealt with by scrolling up and down the file list. Also, when I do drag and drop those files over, sometimes the speed at which they are added is noticeably slower than 1.0.14 and 1.0.15.

    I hope the developer is able to lock down the code on the core features before adding the enhanced tag editing / presentation and other useful concepts. I'm a big supporter of Bonk, but this development version does feel a bit more "raw" than I would have expected, and crashes happen frequently enough to be of concern.

    Please keep up the good work, and thanks for keeping it free.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    Galifray

    Reviewing CVS 20090221 Alpha (Feb 23, 2009)

    I've been using BonkEnc for some time now, and I like it. This development version is really shaping up. It has more codecs and can handle everything I throw at it. Now if there was a good freeware Bonk player.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    Stoerpser

    Reviewing CVS 20080427 (May 21, 2008)

    @DudeBoyz

    You're right and you're wrong: That's a Snapshot and in my opinion it means it lay between 1.07 (stable) and before 1.08 Beta.
    You can test it or stay on 1.07.

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    DudeBoyz

    Reviewing CVS 20080427 (May 21, 2008)

    UPDATE - RESPONSE:

    So, it's just an early development version that will eventually lead to 1.0.8?

    I guess I'm used to seeing such things listed as "Alpha" or something and not a completely separate entry with a different "name" lie CVS.

    If this is just a pre-release for 1.0.8, then I'll give it a 4, cause the product is just flat out awesome, but the documentation / information about this particular release is lacking.

    Thanks for the info

    ORIGINAL POST:

    I'm not sure I understand just what this is compared to the standard BonkEnc 1.0.7.

    Is this just another name for like a 1.0.8 beta?

    I think BonkEnc is one of the very best freeware apps out there and feel it is very worthy of a download. But I'm kinda confused about this CVS thing.

    Can someone explain it?

    Thanks

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