fre:ac Portable 1.0.22 has been released as a multilingual package. fre:ac Portable is the popular fre:ac packaged as a portable app, so you extract, convert, and encode your audio files just about anywhere you go. fre:ac is the new name of BonkEnc. BonkEnc Portable users can uninstall BonkEnc and install this. The MP3 plugin is an optional component in this release.

fre:ac is a free 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
* Portable application, install on a USB stick and take it with you
* 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 37 languages
* Completely free and open source without a catch

fre:ac v1.0.22 Monday, 28 July 2014 14:22
fre:ac version 1.0.22 has been released on 28th July 2014. This service release updates codecs and translations and fixes several bugs that have been found in earlier versions.
In particular, the new release updates the Ogg Vorbis codec to the 2014 version of aoTuV 6.03 and adds Afrikaans language support. It fixes two possible crash issues, blurry text on Windows 8 computers with high DPI displays, the last track of CD-Extra discs being reported two seconds too long as well as several minor problems.