# freac

**Repository Path**: codcat/freac

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: freac
- **Description**: The fre:ac audio converter project
- **Primary Language**: C++
- **License**: GPL-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2019-02-18
- **Last Updated**: 2020-12-19

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# ![fre:ac logo](https://freac.org/images/stories/freac_icon_smaller.png) fre:ac - free audio converter
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.com/enzo1982/freac.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.com/enzo1982/freac) [![Last commit](https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/enzo1982/freac.svg)](https://github.com/enzo1982/freac/commits/master) [![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/enzo1982/freac.svg)](https://github.com/enzo1982/freac/blob/master/COPYING)

fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter. It supports audio CD ripping and tag editing and converts between various audio formats.

        ![fre:ac on Ubuntu Linux](https://freac.org/images/freac-ubuntu.png)

## Features
- Supported formats include MP3, MP4/AAC, Opus and FLAC
- Integrated CD ripper, player and tag editor
- Supports playlists, cue sheets and chapters
- Fast, multi-threaded conversion engine
- Ability to convert to multiple formats at once
- Can verify lossless input and output files
- Supports freedb/CDDB queries and submits
- Supports ripping of hidden tracks (HTOA)
- Supports fully automated CD ripping
- Support for using command line codecs
- User interface available in 40+ languages
- Optional command line interface

## Download
Pre-built packages for Windows, macOS, Linux and FreeBSD are available at [freac.org](https://freac.org/latest-snapshot/).

## Compiling
fre:ac depends on the [BoCA audio component framework](https://github.com/enzo1982/boca/) and the [smooth Class Library](https://github.com/enzo1982/smooth/). 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:

- For the smooth Class Library: libbz2, libcurl, libfribidi, libgtk+3.0, libjpeg, libxml2
- For the BoCA component framework: libasound2 (Linux only), libcdio, libcdio-paranoia, libexpat, liburiparser
- For fre:ac itself: libudev (Linux only)

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`.

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The official fre:ac homepage: https://www.freac.org/

robert.kausch@freac.org,  
Robert Kausch