Ardour
A professional digital audio workstation for recording, editing and mixing audio and MIDI.GetGPL-2.0+
fre:ac
A free audio converter and CD ripper with tag editing, batch conversion and support for MP3, AAC, Opus and FLAC.
GPL-2.0+ · Downloads from github.com
- License
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- enzo1982
- Verified
- 2026
About fre:ac
fre:ac converts audio between common formats such as MP3, AAC, Opus and FLAC, and rips audio CDs with metadata lookups, cue sheets and an integrated tag editor. Its multi-threaded engine can encode to several formats in one pass and verify lossless input and output.
The same application runs on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. Mac builds are published as disk images on GitHub and freac.org, with separate packages for older and newer macOS versions, and a Homebrew cask is also available.
Information
- Source code
- enzo1982/freac
- License
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- Website
- freac.org
- Download
- github.com
- Category
- Media
- Evidence checked
- Tags
Maco links to each project’s official download. Check its release notes for macOS version and Apple silicon support. The verification date records our license and source review, not a security audit.
Sources and image credits
- github.com/enzo1982/freac
- github.com/enzo1982/freac/blob/master/COPYING
- github.com/enzo1982/freac/releases
- freac.org/latest-release/
- formulae.brew.sh/cask/freac
- icon.png: Robert Kausch and fre:ac contributors. GPL-2.0-or-later repository asset; fre:ac name and logo retained by the project.
License and artwork notices
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