Software update: fre:ac 1.1

Version 1.1 was released from fre:ac. Fre:ac is an open source and cross platform audio converter and CD ripper. Support is available for the most common lossy and lossless formats, including mp3, Ogg Vorbis, aac and flac. The program has been around since 2001, albeit under the name BonkEnc. Unlike the 1.0 series, version 1.1 is also available for Linux, FreeBSD and macOS and contains several new extras, such as a dsp framework for normalization and resampling. The changelog for this release looks like this:

fre:ac v1.1

fre:ac version 1.1 has been released and is now available for download! This is a major release with more than 80 new features compared to fre:ac 1.0.33. Highlights include:

• Availability for macOS and Linux, in addition to Windows
• Availability of 64 bit versions for Windows and other operating systems
• Support for dark mode on Windows and macOS
• A reworked conversion engine with support for multi-threading and parallel processing
• An integrated tag editor with support for cover images
• An extension for simultaneous output to multiple formats
• Support for new codecs including Opus, Apple Lossless, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack and others
• Support for DSP filters and lossless file verification
• Support for multi-channel audio
• Support for managing multiple configurations
• Support for writing log files

the complete list of new features can be found in the release notes of the fre:ac 1.1 Beta 1 release. Upgrading to fre:ac v1.1 is recommended for users of fre:ac 1.0.33 or earlier and strongly recommended for users of fre:ac v1.1 preview releases.