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<id>org.freac.freac</id>
<name>fre:ac</name>
<summary>Audio converter and CD ripper</summary>
<project_license>GPL-2.0</project_license>
<description>
<p>
fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter that comes with
an integrated tag editor and supports various audio file formats.
</p>
<p>
Features include:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Support for MP3, MP4/AAC, Opus, FLAC and other formats</li>
<li>Integrated player and tag editor</li>
<li>Support for playlists, cue sheets and chapters</li>
<li>Fast, multi-threaded conversion engine</li>
<li>Ability to convert to multiple formats at once</li>
<li>Can verify lossless input and output files</li>
<li>Support for freedb/CDDB queries and submits</li>
<li>Support for using command line codecs</li>
<li>User interface available in 40+ languages</li>
<li>Optional command line interface</li>
</ul>
</description>
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<url type="homepage">https://www.freac.org</url>
<url type="bugtracker">https://github.com/enzo1982/freac/issues</url>
<url type="donation">https://www.freac.org/donating.php</url>
<categories>
<category>AudioVideo</category>
<category>Audio</category>
</categories>
<provides>
<mediatype>x-content/audio-cdda</mediatype>
<mediatype>application/x-cue</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/aac</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/flac</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/mpeg</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/mp2</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/mp4</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-m4b</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/ogg</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-flac+ogg</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-opus+ogg</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-speex+ogg</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-vorbis+ogg</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-ape</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-musepack</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-wavpack</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-ms-wma</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-aiff</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-voc</mediatype>
<mediatype>audio/x-wav</mediatype>
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<keywords>
<keyword>freac</keyword>
</keywords>
<releases>
<release type="stable" version="1.1.4" timestamp="1613260800">
<description>
<p>Improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Improved support for reading CD-Text</li>
<li>Added an HDCD decoder DSP filter</li>
<li>Added catalog number and barcode fields to tag editor</li>
<li>Added quality (VBR) setting to FDK-AAC configuration dialog</li>
<li>Improved MP3, AAC and Opus encoding performance by up to 30%</li>
<li>Improved multi-monitor support on X11 based systems</li>
<li>Discs of multi-disc albums are now shown separately in tag editor album mode</li>
<li>Update only changed fields when making edits in tag editor album mode</li>
<li>Added support for Replay Gain values in MP4 and WMA metadata</li>
<li>Do not override settings with default values when using freaccmd's --config option</li>
</ul>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed invalid length written to very long Opus and Speex files (longer than 12 ½ hours at 48 kHz)</li>
<li>Fixed decoding of some very short Opus, Vorbis and Speex files</li>
<li>Fixed written MP4 chapters being invisible to some applications when using Nero AAC</li>
<li>Fixed hang/crash when opening WavPack, Musepack, TAK and OptimFROG files with chapters</li>
<li>Fixed issues submitting CDDB information for new CDs (without existing entries)</li>
<li>Fixed output sample rate being limited to 192 kHz</li>
<li>Fixed freaccmd randomly failing to process files in rare cases</li>
<li>Fixed bad user interface colors on some Linux distributions</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated codecs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Switched from FAAC to FDK-AAC for AAC encoding</li>
<li>Updated Monkey's Audio to version 6.11</li>
<li>Updated WavPack to version 5.4.0</li>
<li>Updated mpg123 to version 1.26.4</li>
<li>Updated FAAD2 to version 2.10.0</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated translations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Updated Romanian translation</li>
<li>Updated Portuguese (Brazilian) translation</li>
</ul>
</description>
</release>
<release type="stable" version="1.1.3" timestamp="1602374400">
<description>
<p>General changes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Switched to using GNUdb as the default CDDB database service</li>
</ul>
<p>Improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Command line codec configuration now allows specifying additional arguments</li>
<li>Improved detection of cue sheet encoding to support system codepage and UTF-8 without BOM</li>
<li>freaccmd now splits cue sheets to individual tracks unless an output file is specified using the -o option</li>
<li>freaccmd now supports a --split-chapters option to split files with chapter tags into individual chapters</li>
<li>Added <profile> placeholder for use in output folder configuration setting, resolving to user profile folder</li>
<li>Added file type associations, so fre:ac is offered for opening audio files</li>
<li>Added audio CD association, so fre:ac can be started when inserting a CD</li>
<li>Added an option to suppress "No entry found" messages for automatic CDDB queries</li>
<li>Improved detection of sampler CDs when querying CDDB information</li>
</ul>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed possible conversion thread hangs when using external encoders</li>
<li>Fixed crash when writing fields containing only whitespace to Vorbis Comment, APEv2, WMA or RIFF tags</li>
<li>Fixed possible glitches in WAV/AIFF output when processing float samples outside the -1.0/+1.0 range</li>
<li>Fixed possible hangs when opening WAV/AIFF files larger than 2 GB or with a broken chunk structure</li>
<li>Fixed writing wrong offsets to single file cue sheets when the resampling DSP filter is enabled</li>
<li>Fixed writing invalid chapter offsets to Opus files with source material sample rates other than 48 kHz</li>
<li>Fixed writing invalid MP3 bitstreams in rare cases in SuperFast mode</li>
<li>Fixed wrong length detection for MP3 files with invalid chapter data</li>
<li>Fixed parsing of cue sheets with minute/second indications missing leading zeros and/or duration longer than 99 minutes</li>
<li>Fixed parsing of embedded cue sheets without FILE designations</li>
<li>Fixed ripping progress for other drives stalling while one drive is ejecting</li>
<li>Fixed inability to pause or stop single output file verification</li>
<li>Fixed log files being archived despite disabling the corresponding option</li>
<li>Fixed Shift+Pos1/End shortcuts being interpreted by the joblist and edit fields at the same time</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated codecs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Updated Vorbis to version 1.3.7 (plus aoTuV b6.03 and Lancer optimizations)</li>
<li>Updated Monkey's Audio to version 5.55</li>
<li>Updated mpg123 to version 1.26.3</li>
</ul>
<p>New translations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added Hindi translation</li>
</ul>
</description>
</release>
<release type="stable" version="1.1.2" timestamp="1592611200">
<description>
<p>Improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Scale UI to adjust to system font size by default</li>
<li>Added support for theme colors and dark mode</li>
<li>Improved handling of maximized window state</li>
<li>Stop ripping before trying to eject a disc</li>
<li>Write audio data CRC to log files when ripping</li>
<li>Write MD5 checksums to log files when verifying files</li>
<li>Write log entries when replacing existing files</li>
</ul>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed length of last chapter of some audio books being detected as 0:00</li>
<li>Prevent interpreting numerical IDs or dates at the beginning of file names as track numbers</li>
<li>Fixed a possible source of random crashes when adding files to the joblist</li>
<li>Fixed possible crash when importing MP4/M4A files</li>
<li>Fixed possible crash when encoding in SuperFast mode</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated codecs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Updated Monkey's Audio to version 5.44</li>
<li>Updated mpg123 to version 1.26.1</li>
<li>Updated FAAD2 to version 2.9.2</li>
</ul>
</description>
</release>
<release type="stable" version="1.1.1" timestamp="1587254400">
<description>
<p>Improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Improved file size and bitrate calculation for chapters and cue sheet tracks</li>
<li>Added <discid> placeholder for use in filename patterns</li>
<li>Added an optional disc ID column to the joblist</li>
<li>Added an option to eject the disc after ripping to freaccmd</li>
<li>Allow specifying device path instead of drive number in freaccmd</li>
</ul>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed crash of freaccmd when querying CDDB while DISPLAY variable is not set</li>
<li>Fixed several issues creating CBR MP3 files in SuperFast mode</li>
<li>Fixed calculation of track conversion speed factor in log files</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated codecs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Updated Monkey's Audio to version 5.33</li>
<li>Updated WavPack to version 5.3.0</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated translations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Updated Portuguese (Brazilian) translation</li>
</ul>
</description>
</release>
</releases>
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