Fre:ac (formerly BonkEnc) is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats. With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or WMA files for use with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other audio software. You can even convert whole music libraries retaining the folder and filename structure. The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags.
The new release now uses the mpg123 library for more reliable MP3 decoding, updates the FAAC/FAAD2 codec to the latest version and fixes several minor issues. upgraded FLAC to version 1.3.2; updated Chinese (traditional) translation; configuration is now saved in freac.xml; fixed crash on some invalid cover art; Added Cantonese (Hong Kong) and Corsican language support; Minor improvements for CDDB submit dialog; Improved detection of cover art mime types; Display error message only once when adding multiple files while converting; Fixed: Erroneous message about non existing folder if it is drive's root; Issues handling CDDB entries with line breaks; Inability to send new CDDB entries when there was a disc-id collision; CDDB query dialog appearing off screen when main window is minimized.
