- #Freac ogg quality settings how to#
- #Freac ogg quality settings install#
- #Freac ogg quality settings update#
- #Freac ogg quality settings full#
- #Freac ogg quality settings portable#
Go to the program home page to download the latest version (approx 6.7 megs). Linux support introduced in “Fre:ac snapshot 20101205”.
What more could you ask for?Ĭompatibility: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 32bit and 64bit. This program is rich in features, fast, nice looking, portable, and open source. If you are looking for a standard, powerful freeware audio converter and CD ripper then I recommend you turn to Fre:ac (bad pun deliberate, I’m afraid). The verdict: this was a “Freewaregenius pick” when I first reviewed it when it used to be called BonkEnc, and it still is in its new guise. However, the QUALITY of the file will be EXACTLY the same as the one made with -3 and as the original. It will also take a tad bit longer to encode.
#Freac ogg quality settings install#
#Freac ogg quality settings update#
Keeping fingers crossed that an update will be offered soon. Unfortunately, this version would not work for me on Windows 7 64 bit, and crashed when I tested it (in the middle of encoding to Flac).
#Freac ogg quality settings how to#
(I say “presumably” because I couldn’t figure out how to use this function, if it exists at all). I am glad I was reminded of it, though, because I had been looking for an audio converter to add to the next update of my Top Freeware page, especially as one audio converter I liked, Xrecode, had become payware after I had reviewed it.įre:ac snapshot 20101205: this is the name of the latest beta of this program, which has tag editing functionality, offers a 64bit native version, and (presumably) also offers an integrated video downloading function from video sharing sites, in order to save downloaded videos and encode straight to audio file/MP3. It turns out this program was, in fact, the very first program I reviewed on Freewaregenius, except back then it was called BonkEnc. It actually supported multithreading on my machine.” (Thanks Kyle S). I found this one on SourceForge and I think it is much better and much faster. MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formatsreac converts freely between.
#Freac ogg quality settings portable#
I found every audio encoder, including the one you have recommended to be so slow. It will also store its configuration files on the portable drive. I found out about this program when I received the following email from a reader: “I recently did a big project of moving all my AAC files to OGG to use on my Droid. (Note that the program used to be called BonkEnc before the name was changed). Other functions include ripping audio CDs and downloading metadata from online sources (CDDB/freedb), playlist creation, and encoding into a single file. It can convert to/from most major audio types (MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV, and Bonk).
#Freac ogg quality settings full#
I wonder if it can play it.While there are many free programs that can rip CD’s and perform audio file conversions, many of them do not support multi-core processing.įor most modern PC’s this means that the software does not utilize the full processing power of your machine, resulting in longer encoding and conversion times (significantly longer if, say, you were processing a large audio library).įre:ac is a versatile, free, and feature-rich audio converter and CD ripper with multi-core optimized encoders. I know a lot of people disagree with this approach, but it certainly works for kind of portable? I am eager to hear how well it performs at low bitrates (even -q -2 ). Then you end up with the audio bandwidth that you can hear at the lowest bitrate before quality suffers. then use a slightly higher quality setting than you need. Then set the lowpass just above what you can hear, and find the quality setting where it starts to not sound so good to you. Do some tests at -q 10, and adjust the lowpass down untill you notice that it's there. I think the best thing for anyone to do, is find out the maximum frequency that they can hear (I can hear a single tone up to about 21khz, just barely). I have pretty good high frequency hearing, so lowpass filters bother me if set too low for my taste, I'll take *minor* artifacts in exchange for greater audio bandwidth any day. I don't have a big hard drive, so saving space is more important to me than transparancy. My sig isn't outdated, oggenc's lowpass parameter is in KHZ, audio with a 44100hz samplerate can produce a max frequency of 22050hz, so even 25khz is effectively 'off'.