fre:ac v1.1 α 20180710

Version 1.1 α 20180710 (July 2018)

• faster CRC calculations to speed up FLAC and Monkey's Audio codecs
• improved configuration dialogs for external codecs
• improved support for ripping automatization
• improved handling of album artist metadata
• allow playback during conversions
• reworked donation dialog

fre:ac v1.0.32

Version 1.0.32 (March 2018)

• added Serbian and Chinese (traditional) translations for the installer
• changed default output pattern to <artist> - <album> - <track> - <title>
• improved behaviour of bitrate selection controls
• show joblist duration in hours if longer than 1 hour
• fixed issues with encoding to single file when suggested file name becomes too long
• fixed handling of empty track metadata field
• fixed handling of invalid Xing/LAME tags
• fixed FAAC quality setting
• fixed missing album art mimetype in MP4 metadata
• fixed TwinVQ and WMA encoders being mixed up in config dialog
• upgraded mpg123 to version 1.25.10
• upgrade to MP4v2 v2.0.0

fre:ac v1.1 α 20180306

Version 1.1 α 20180306 (March 2018)

• added DSP components for channel up-/downmixing and sample format conversion
• added support for automatic sample format conversions to match encoder requirements
• added support for joining tracks with different sample formats into a single output file
• added RNNoise speech noise reduction DSP component
• added Rubber Band time stretching DSP component
• allow CDDB dialogs to be resized

fre:ac v1.0.31a

Version 1.0.31a (November 2017)

• updated Bulgarian translation
• updated FAAC encoder to fix Joint Stereo bug

fre:ac v1.0.31

Version 1.0.31 (November 2017)

• updated Italian translation
• changed default output pattern to <artist> - <album>\<artist> - <album> - <track> - <title>
• default to using WMA 9.2 instead of WMA 10 Pro
• added support for reading WAV files with unknown length
• fixed rare crash when decoding certain Ogg Vorbis files
• fixed some freedb connection issues
• upgraded CDRip to version 1.27 to fix detection of USB drives
• upgraded LAME to version 3.100
• upgraded FAAC to version 1.29.9.2
• upgraded FAAD2 to version 2.8.6
• upgraded mpg123 to version 1.25.7
• upgraded Ogg library to version 1.3.3

fre:ac v1.1 α 20171119

Version 1.1 α 20171119 (November 2017)

• Added a DSP framework and a resampler DSP component
• Added support for Monkey's Audio on macOS, Linux and FreeBSD
• Updated FAAC to version 1.29.9.2
• Updated LAME to version 3.100

fre:ac v1.0.30

Version 1.0.30 (September 2017)

• minor improvements for CDDB submit dialog
• guard against disc insert notification being received multiple times
• upgraded FAAC to version 1.29.7.4

fre:ac v1.1 α 20170902

v1.1-alpha-20170902

Preparing snapshot release.

fre:ac v1.0.29

Version 1.0.29 (August 2017)

• now using the mpg123 library for MP3 decoding
• changed default FLAC blocksize to 4096 samples to match official FLAC tools
• removed support for obsolete Main and LTP AAC profiles
• fixed progress not being updated for long running conversions
• fixed handling of stray tabs in title info
• upgraded CDRip to version 1.26 to fix handling of drives with letter A:
• upgraded FAAC to version 1.29.7
• upgraded FAAD2 to version 2.8.1