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freac (Audio converter and CD ripper)

fre:ac  is  a  Audio  converter and CD ripper with support for various
popular  formats  and  encoders.  It  currently  converts between MP3,
MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.

With fre:ac you easily rip your audio CDs to MP3 or WMA files for use
with your hardware player or convert files that do not play with other
audio software. You can even convert  whole music  libraries retaining
the folder and filename structure.

The integrated CD ripper supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database.
It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or
other title information tags.

Features:

 * Converter for MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and
   Bonk formats;
 * Integrated CD ripper with CDDB/freedb title database support;
 * Multi-core optimized encoders to speed up conversions on modern PCs;
 * Full Unicode support for tags and file names;
 * Easy to learn and use, still offers expert options when you need them;
 * Multilingual user interface available in 40 languages
 * Completely free and open source without a catch