Download fre:ac 1.0.23

Version 1.0.23 was released from fre:ac. Fre:ac is an open source and cross platform audio converter and CD ripper. Support is available for the most common lossy and lossless formats, including mp3, Ogg Vorbis, aac and flac. The program has been around since 2001, albeit under the name BonkEnc. In this new release, the flac codec has been updated to version 1.3.1 and some security vulnerabilities have been fixed. The release notes for this release can be found below.

fre:ac v1.0.23

fre:ac version 1.0.23 has been released. This service release updates codecs and translations and fixes several bugs that have been found in earlier versions.

In particular, fre:ac 1.0.23 updates the FLAC codec to version 1.3.1 which includes some important fixes for security issues. The new release also fixes instabilities in the MP3 decoder and WMA tag writer and adds support for opening Windows Wave files with floating point data. The user interface is now available in Basque and Serbian (Cyrillic) language; several other translations have been updated.

Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.23 is strongly recommended to all users of earlier versions.