fre:ac

The program provides a free audio conversion and CD‑ripping tool that handles a wide range of formats, including MP3, M4A/AAC, FLAC, WMA, Opus, Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Monkey’s Audio (APE), WavPack, WAV and others. It can rip audio CDs directly to any of these formats, automatically querying the CDDB/GNUdb online database for track information and writing ID3v2 or similar tags, and it also converts existing files while preserving folder and filename structures.

Designed for users who need to manage music libraries or extract audio from CDs, the software runs on macOS and can be used as a portable application installed on a USB stick, keeping configuration files on the same drive. Its encoders are optimized for multi‑core CPUs, accelerating conversion tasks on modern hardware.

The interface is intended to be intuitive for basic operations yet still offers advanced options for experienced users, and it fully supports Unicode characters in tags and filenames, allowing correct handling of scripts such as Japanese, Cyrillic, Arabic and others.