The fre:ac audio converter project
fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter. It supports audio CD ripping and tag editing and converts between various audio file formats.
Features
Download
Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD are available at freac.org.
Installation Windows
fre:ac is distributed in two variants, an .exe file containing a setup wizard or alternatively a .zip archive that contains just the application without an installer. If you downloaded the .exe installer, simply run it and the setup wizard will guide you through the installation process creating start menu icons that will run fre:ac. If you downloaded the .zip package, please extract/move the contents to a location of your choice and run freac.exe to start fre:ac.
Alternatively, fre:ac may be installed from the Microsoft Store under this link: fre:ac on the Microsoft Store
As another alternative, users of Windows package managers may install community-maintained packages of fre:ac using the following commands:
choco install freac
scoop install freac
winget install fre:ac
macOS
fre:ac is distributed as an Apple Disk Image (.dmg) file. To install it, open the .dmg image and drag the fre:ac application to a location of your choice like the desktop or the Applications folder. Then double click the application to start fre:ac.
Alternatively, users of the package manager MacPorts may install fre:ac using the following command:
sudo port install freac
Linux
fre:ac is available as a Snap, Flatpak or AppImage package. The Snap and Flatpak versions can be found and installed from the respective app stores. Please note that these versions run in restriced environments and might offer limited functionality. The AppImage package must be marked as executable after downloading using the following command:
chmod a+x freac*.AppImage
The AppImage can then be executed to start fre:ac.
FreeBSD
fre:ac is available as a FreeBSD port and can be installed using the following command:
sudo pkg install freac
Alternatively, there is a binary version of fre:ac distributed as a .tar.gz archive. Please extract the contents to a location of your choice and execute the freac binary to start fre:ac.
Haiku
fre:ac is available as a HaikuPorts package and can be installed using the following command:
pkgman install freac
Compiling
fre:ac depends on the BoCA audio component framework and the smooth Class Library. Please build and install those first.
Development packages for the following libraries need to be installed in order to build smooth, BoCA and fre:ac:
When the dependencies are met, run make
followed by sudo make install
for smooth, BoCA and fre:ac respectively.
You should then be able to run fre:ac using /usr/local/bin/freac
and the command line interface using /usr/local/bin/freaccmd
.
The official fre:ac homepage: https://www.freac.org/
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