fre:ac - free audio converter Activity
Audio converter and CD ripper for various formats
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Anonymous posted a comment on ticket #4
Not yet implemented? Would be nice
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Jiri Dva posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
Hello, if you are still looking for a solution, it is possible to prepare a list of commands for the command line e.g. in Excel and generate the names of the resulting file there or e.g. paste by directory names (I can get the list of directory names in TotalCommander). Reply if you want more detailed info.
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Lajos Andrejkovics posted a comment on discussion 3. Audio Format Discussion
Hi, I can't seem to find the option in the FLAC codec to select the bitrate and sampling frequency setting. Have a couple of 24-bit 96khz FLAC I want to downgrade to 16-bit 44khz and can't seem to find the option. Using fre:ac 1.1.7 (ARM64) on a Mac. Thanks.
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Steven Hulsker posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
Hi Robert, I hope I didn't miss some obvious help topics but I was wondering if it's possible to use the command line tool to do batch processing on a watch folder? Something like: freaccmd.exe -e LAME -o c:\output\ c:\input*.* Any file with a <filename> dropped in the input folder gets converted and output in the output folder. Best result would also be if the input folder would be cleared of all files that have been processed.. Thank you for your advice. Steven</filename>
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davod modified a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
Can't find a way to delete. EAC works great in WINE so I'll use that.
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Running fre:ac on Endeavour OS/KDE Plasma. Loving it when it actually completes a disc, which is about 1 out of 3 or 4 tries. Different clean discs, different locations. I've tried the appimage and both freac and freac-bin from the Arch AUR with the same results. Suggestions for tracking down or fixing the problem?
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Bob L. posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
sorry, what I see as the post is not formatted as I posted!
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Hi, I setup Fre:ac on my neighbors computer. He has a lot of CDs. I set it to <albumartist>\<album>\<disc><track> <title></p> <p>He really got into it and also used Fre:ac using 3 of his other computers, but he used the default settings as he didn't know I changed the format on his first computer.</p> <p>All of the rips from those 3 computers have almost the same format, except there is the band name between the track number and the song title.</p> <p>I ran Fre:ac on my computer and unchecked Signal...
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finalhybris posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
Ok the problem with the leading 0 is solved. If anyone has the same problem, i did a serie of screenshots 2 solve u problem. Only the "." at the End of the numeration i can't find it 4 the leading 0 solution just follow the screenshots from 1 till 4
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free:ac ignores the leading 0 and the . at the end of the file nummeration till now i allways went 2 the mp3 files and made it by hand. but as i can c the programm is very flexible, but ican't find the settings 2 make it clear, i attach some screenshots screenshot 93 is like i have it on flac and 94 is what free:ac made it off If anyone can help. it would be very nice off u Happy new year
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Steve Jensen modified a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
I converted a couple of mp4 files to wav files and lost 50% of the volume. Is there anyway to keep the original volume when converting with freac? I lose the volume when converting to any other audio format such as mp3 as well.
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I converted a couple of mp4 files to wav files and lost 50% of the volume. Is there anyway to keep the original volume when converting with freac?
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Joe Barlow posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
Hi, I've used fre:ac for years on my old (Intel) Mac without issue. I recently bought an M3 Max MacBook Pro running Sonoma 14.2.1. and installed fre:ac version 1.1.7. Every time I launch the program and click the "Add audio CD contents" button, the program immediately crashes with a "fre:ac - free audio converter quit expectedly" message. I've tried clearing the ~/Library/Caches folder, restarting the Mac, launching the program in Safe Mode by holding the left Shift key, and deleting/reinstalling...
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Andrea posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
wav spectrum
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i find the same problem when i try to convert aac file to Flac. probably it's a problem of tthe AAC decoder but i'm not sure.
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Goodmorning. When i try to convert some AAC file in a 16 bit Wav file, the volume of the wav file is not the same of the AAC original (is very very lower). How can i fix it?
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Chris posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
Nothing? Has anyone else had this same issue? Does the overwriting/deleting work for everyone else?
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On one computer, I was somehow able to adjust the settings so that the converted file replaced the original source file after conversion. There's a message on the convert button, as seen in the attached screenshot. For the life of me, I can not replicate this in the settings on another computer. I have the output folder set as the same input folder, the "use input file if possible" and "allow overwriting input file" boxes checked and it still keeps the original source file after conversion and doesn't...
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MaggieChan posted a comment on discussion 0. General Discussion
I love Taylor Swift's songs. However, after experiencing the inability to listen to her songs due to copyright issues, I was worried that I would not be able to listen to her songs again. Now I use DumpMedia Spotify Music Converter to download her songs.
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Anber_liang posted a comment on discussion 0. General Discussion
I love listening to orchestral music, and I've recently downloaded my Spotify playlists to my local device with TuneSolo Spotify Music Converter so I can listen to them anytime, anywhere.
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Michael Dekker modified a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
So far, love the tool. Have successfully used it for numerous "merges" to single file using the command line tool, however I am frustrated by an issue with the command line options The following works great... freaccmd --encoder=fdkaac -o "path\output.m4b" "path\to\source\*.mp3" which produces path\output.m4b The problem is that I need to manually specify the 'output.m4b' filename. The problem is that I need to manually specify the 'output.m4b' filename. The tool seems to have the concept of patterns,...
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So far, love the tool. Have successfully used it for numerous "merges" to single file using the command line tool, however I am frustrated by an issue with the command line options The following works great... freaccmd --encoder=fdkaac -o "path\output.m4b" "path\to\source\*.mp3" which produces path\output.m4b The problem is that I need to manually specify the 'output.m4b' filename. The problem is that I need to manually specify the 'output.m4b' filename. The tool seems to have the concept of patterns,...
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Christopher Gray posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
been using fre:ac on a Mac to rip cd to flac with no issues for some time. just started using it on a windows 10 machine. when i insert a cd, close the drawe and click to load cd contents to job list the cd drive opens and a message appears asking me to insert a disk if i close the drive the same thing keeps happening . if i manage to click the run button before the drive opens then the cd is ripped but this is not an elegant solution any ideas of what i can do to stop the drive opening ?
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Robert Kausch posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
Hallo Stefan, das passiert normalerweise nur, wenn auch snapd gerade erst installiert wurde. Dann ist der Ordner /snap/bin ggf. noch nicht im Pfad. Siehe https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/9469. Ein Neustart hilft da normalerweise. Falls das nicht hilft oder snapd schon länger installiert ist, kann /snap/bin manuell zum Pfad hinzugefügt werden. Viele Grüße, Robert
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Stefan posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
Guten Morgen ... Ich habe freac via snap installiert. Die Installation lief ohne Probleme durch. Als ich dann in der Konsole "freac" zum starten eingab, kam "comand not found". Ich habe es als User und root probiert. Wo liegt mein Denkfehler? Gruß Stefan
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No, if no CD drive is connected, the eject button will do nothing.
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When converting multiple input files/tracks to a single output file, the output file will contain a chapter per original source file/track. In other words, each joblist entry will become a chapter in the output file. fre:ac does not transfer chapters contained in individual files when reading chapters is disabled. I.e. when you add a file containing multiple chapters to the joblist while the option to read chapters is disabled and then convert the file, the output file will not contain chapters.
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Sam Ebersman posted a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
How does fre:ac know how to write chapters to files, particularly if you disable "Read chapters from files"?
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If I don't have any CD's connected to my computer, does the eject button do anything in fre:ac?
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If I don't have any CD's connected to my computer, does the eject button do anything in fre:ac?
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SuperFast mode uses multiple instances of an encoder to speed up single file conversion. This is supported with the LAME MP3, Core Audio AAC/ALAC, FDK-AAC, Opus and Speex codecs. If you are interested in the technical details, you can find more information here and here. SuperFast mode only affects conversions where the number of output files is at most half the number of logical CPU cores in your system, so at most 4 files with your CPU. It's most useful when using the "Encode to a single file"...
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In Resources, which codecs does "Enable Superfast Mode" Affect? Generally, what does it do, and is it worth using with a Intel Core i7-9700K CPU @ 3.60GHz
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No, there is no real reason to turn off "On the fly" conversion on modern hardware. There is no risk of data loss. Some users turn this off to get both, WAV and compressed files in one go, but it's better to use the meh! multi encoder for this.
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The button will try to query an online CDDB database (GnuDB by default) for title information for CD tracks in the joblist. If there are no CD tracks in the joblist or the information has already been queried, the button will do nothing. As fre:ac queries the database when adding CD tracks to the joblist by default, the button will actually do nothing in most cases.
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When clicking on the icon for that, nothing happens. Not really sure what it's for or why it's there.
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I know that disabling this setting creates temporary WAV Files. But is there any reason to disable it on modern hardware? Does keeping it on have a risk of data loss?
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ShamanZeno92 modified a comment on discussion 1. Help and Support
That's what FLAC is designed to do, shrink the file size without destroying any of the original audio. Hence being "lossless" compression format.
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That's what FLAC is designed to do, shrink the file file size without destroying any of the original audio. Hence being "lossless" compression format.
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The discussion have moved to Github https://github.com/enzo1982/freac/discussions/
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Update Spanish translation (thanks William).
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Update Readme to note changes in smooth library.
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Update FFmpeg to version 6.0.
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Update Portuguese translation (thanks José Gonçalves).
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Update Greek translation (thanks Marios Balasopoulos).
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Update Serbian translations (thanks Nebojša Nikolić).
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Update MP4v2 patch to add missing initialization.
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Report errors in conversions to a single output file.
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Add a patch for MP4v2 to fix slow decoding of files with only a single chunk.
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Improve detection of number of CPU cores in build scripts.
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Update Italian translation (thanks FwnGM).
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Update French translation (thanks Martin (Keishu)).
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Update Chinese (simplified) translation (thanks 王晨旭 (wcxu21)).
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Update Portuguese (Brazilian) translation (thanks Wellington Uemura).
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Re-generate Crowdin translation files.
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Update Monkey's Audio to version 9.15.
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Update Monkey's Audio to version 9.14 and fix build.
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Update Monkey's Audio to version 9.13.
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Update MP4v2 to version 2.1.2.
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Update build badge in Readme.md.
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Fix Snap build.
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Fix Monkey's Audio out-of-tree builds.
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Add support for building codecs with CMake.
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Update Monkey's Audio to version 9.10.
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Target Apple M1 CPU when building for macOS ARM64 and require SIMD when building for ARMv7-A.
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Fix surplus </section> closing tag in translation file.
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GitHub committed [17d633] on fre:ac
Update Corsican translation (#430)
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Adjust text and translations for changes in BoCA.
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Minor fixes for Greek translation.
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Add output splitting tool.
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Allow multiple lines in translation author field.
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Minor translation updates from Crowdin (thanks to all translators).
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Minor text change for clarity.
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Use HTTPs in WavPack download URL.
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Update AppImage libcurl to version 7.87.0.
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Update exhale to version 1.2.0.
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Update mpg123 to version 1.31.2.
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Update Readme to note changes in BoCA.
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Always set album artist when querying CDDB.
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GitHub committed [208477] on fre:ac
Update Corsican translation (#413)
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GitHub committed [be1f8a] on fre:ac
Update Polish translation (#414)
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Update Readme to note changes in BoCA.
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Use generic x86-64 compile target (produces slightly faster code).
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Add an option to use source file names as output file names if no metadata is present.
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Split encoder and output files configuration dialog pages.
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Arrange cover art options in tags/files groups instead of read/write.
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Update Copyright notice for 2023.
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Add AccurateRip notifications for missing disc entries and successful verification.
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Make loading drive offsets thread safe.
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Performance optimizations for Utilities::GetOutputFileName and Utilities::GetPlaylistFileName.
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Allow providing parameters to Utilities::GetOutputFileName instead of a Config instance.
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GitHub committed [4fee23] on fre:ac
Update Corsican translation (#408)
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Update libsndfile to version 1.2.0.
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Fix a warning.
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Minor fix for Visual Studio project.
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