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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 CD ripper with AccurateRip support</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>
<pkgname>freac</pkgname>
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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="1.1.7" timestamp="1677974400">
<description>
<p>New features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added a tool for splitting output by various parameters (e.g. duration or number of files)</li>
<li>Added support for dithering when reducing sample resolution</li>
<li>Added a matrix surround decoder DSP component</li>
<li>Added a volume adjustment DSP component</li>
</ul>
<p>Improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added support for WavPack Hybrid Lossless compression with correction files</li>
<li>Added support for decoding MPEG-4 DASH files</li>
<li>Added support for opening WebM audio files with the .weba extension</li>
<li>Added support for downmixing 6.1 channel audio</li>
<li>Added support for MusicBrainz metadata in ID3v2, MP4, Vorbis Comment and APEv2 tags</li>
<li>Added support for sort order fields in ID3v2, MP4, Vorbis Comment and APEv2 tags</li>
<li>Added support for rating field in Vorbis Comment, APEv2, MP4 and LIST INFO tags</li>
<li>Added rating field to the tag editor</li>
<li>Added optional release year column to the joblist</li>
<li>Changed <disc> filename placeholder to resolve to 1 if disc number is not set</li>
<li>Improved compatibility with applications writing non-compliant LIST INFO tags (e.g. Traktor)</li>
<li>Added an option to use source file names as output file names if no metadata is present</li>
<li>Added an option to control extraction of missing metadata from file names</li>
<li>Added an option to restrict file names for reading cover art</li>
<li>Added an option to disable intensity stereo phase inversion to Opus settings</li>
<li>Added AccurateRip notification options for successful verification and missing database entries</li>
<li>Sample rate conversion no longer converts to 32 bit float when the source rate matches the target</li>
<li>Added negative exit codes to indicate errors when running freaccmd</li>
<li>Added support for KDE color schemes (including dark mode)</li>
<li>Improved HiDPI scale factor detection in KDE desktop environments</li>
<li>Respect text scaling factor in addition to font size setting on X11 based systems</li>
</ul>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed failure (hang and abort after several seconds) to decode chapters from ALAC files</li>
<li>Fixed interoperability issues of HE- and HEv2-AAC files created with FDK-AAC with foobar2000</li>
<li>Fixed incorrect gapless information when creating HE- and HEv2-AAC files with FDK-AAC</li>
<li>Fixed incorrect index times in cuesheets for very long multi-track files</li>
<li>Fixed incorrect inclusion of data tracks in the audio track count of CD offset strings</li>
<li>Fixed excessive bitrate when encoding Vorbis on non-x86 LP64 systems</li>
<li>Fixed decoding of MP4 files with a single chunk taking excessively long</li>
<li>Fixed HDCD detection for tracks starting with more than about one second of silence</li>
<li>Fixed floating point samples being converted to integer when creating WavPack files</li>
<li>Fixed inability to close cover art popup window on Linux</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated codecs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Updated ALAC decoder for security fixes and improved performance</li>
<li>Updated FFmpeg to version 6.0</li>
<li>Updated Monkey's Audio to version 9.20</li>
<li>Updated WavPack to version 5.6.0</li>
<li>Updated FLAC to version 1.4.2</li>
<li>Updated Speex to version 1.2.1</li>
<li>Updated MP4v2 to version 2.1.2</li>
<li>Updated mpg123 to version 1.31.2</li>
<li>Updated libsndfile to version 1.2.0</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated translations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Updated Greek translation</li>
</ul>
</description>
</release>
<release type="stable" version="1.1.6" timestamp="1642723200">
<description>
<p>New features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added support for editing lyrics in the tag editor</li>
<li>Added support for creating cue sheets and playlists with freaccmd</li>
</ul>
<p>Improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Improved performance of adding video and proprietary audio files (DTS, DSD etc.) to the joblist</li>
<li>Playlists can now be added to the joblist by drag & drop</li>
<li>Added <tempo> and <initialkey> placeholders for use in filename patterns</li>
<li>Added optional composer, conductor, tempo, musical key and ISRC columns to the joblist</li>
<li>Added initial key field to tag editor</li>
<li>Added support for lyrics in ID3v2, MP4, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and WMA tags</li>
<li>Added support for parsing OverDrive MediaMarkers in ID3v2 tags</li>
<li>Added support for the pre-emphasis flag in cue sheets</li>
</ul>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed possible crash upon querying the CDDB database</li>
<li>Fixed possible crash in FAAD2 decoder when trying to open unsupported files</li>
<li>Fixed faulty decoding of certain AAC files caused by a bug in the FDK-AAC decoder</li>
<li>Fixed possible faulty output when decoding from non-zero positions using external decoders</li>
<li>Fixed issue ripping CD tracks when output filename pattern is <filename></li>
<li>Fixed AccurateRip reporting verification errors for hidden track one audio</li>
<li>Fixed setting to replace spaces not being respected when writing cover art and log files</li>
<li>Fixed setting to suppress Unicode characters not being respected when writing cover art and log files</li>
<li>Fixed tag editor fields for media type, catalog number and barcode being limited to 12 characters</li>
</ul>
<p>New and updated codecs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added native Apple Lossless decoder</li>
<li>Updated FFmpeg to version 5.0</li>
<li>Updated Monkey's Audio to version 7.23</li>
<li>Updated mpg123 to version 1.29.3</li>
<li>Updated libsamplerate to version 0.2.2</li>
</ul>
<p>New translations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added Swedish and Portuguese (Brazilian) manuals</li>
</ul>
</description>
</release>
<release type="stable" version="1.1.5" timestamp="1624752000">
<description>
<p>New features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added support for AccurateRip verification</li>
</ul>
<p>Improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added frequency bandwidth setting to FDK-AAC encoder configuration dialog</li>
<li>Added an option to toggle logging of complete paths in log files</li>
<li>Added options for specifying cover art files to freaccmd</li>
<li>Added support for reading Shift_JIS encoded CD-Text</li>
<li>Added support for writing album and track comments to cue sheets</li>
<li>Added support for ID3v2 tags in RF64 files</li>
<li>Added support for updating Vorbis Comment tags</li>
<li>Added support for updating ID3v2 tags in RIFF and AIFF files</li>
<li>Added support for updating LIST INFO tags in RIFF, RF64 and Wave64 files</li>
<li>Added support for ensemble field in Vorbis Comment and APEv2 tags</li>
<li>Added support for movement field in ID3v2, Vorbis Comment, APEv2 and MP4 tags</li>
<li>Added support for additional URL fields in APEv2 tags</li>
<li>Added a tag editor option to keep album artist even if identical to track artist</li>
<li>Added media type field to tag editor</li>
</ul>
<p>Bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed hotspot for genre edit field utility menu not covering the whole width of the field</li>
<li>Fixed occasional crashes when selecting codec subformat using the "Start encoding with" menu</li>
<li>Fixed chapter marks being offset by a few seconds when using DSP processing</li>
<li>Fixed playback not working when using certain combinations of DSP processors</li>
<li>Fixed incompatibility of FDK-AAC encoded HE and HEv2 AAC files with iTunes</li>
<li>Fixed issue decoding FLAC files with unknown length</li>
<li>Fixed glitches decoding transients in some Vorbis files</li>
<li>Fixed possible crashes when decoding Opus files</li>
<li>Fixed rare crashes in LAME encoder component</li>
<li>Fixed strings read from ID3v2 tags being limited to 1024 characters</li>
<li>Fixed crash when reading malformed CD-Text genre IDs</li>
<li>Fixed failure ripping with negative read offset</li>
<li>Fixed UI glitches and crashes on exit when running in a Wayland session</li>
<li>Fixed popup menu and dropdown list closing behavior on non-Windows platforms</li>
<li>Fixed issues with custom DPI settings on Xfce desktops</li>
<li>Fixed drag & drop working unreliably on X11 based systems</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated codecs:</p>
<ul>
<li>Updated FFmpeg to version 4.4</li>
<li>Updated Monkey's Audio to version 6.29</li>
<li>Updated mpg123 to version 1.28.0</li>
<li>Updated libfdk-aac to version 2.0.2</li>
<li>Updated libogg to version 1.3.5</li>
<li>Updated libsndfile to version 1.0.31</li>
<li>Updated libsamplerate to version 0.2.1</li>
</ul>
<p>Updated translations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Updated Norwegian translation</li>
<li>Updated Russian manual</li>
</ul>
</description>
</release>
<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>
</releases>
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