fre:ac
fre:ac is a free and open source audio converter. It comes with an integrated tag editor and converts between various formats.
Features include:
- Support for MP3, MP4/AAC, Opus, FLAC and other formats
- Integrated player and tag editor
- Support for playlists, cue sheets and chapters
- Fast, multi-threaded conversion engine
- Ability to convert to multiple formats at once
- Can verify lossless input and output files
- Support for freedb/CDDB queries and submits
- Support for using command line codecs
- User interface available in 40+ languages
- Optional command line interface
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Usage
fre:ac is available as an AppImage which means "one app = one file", which you can download and run on your Linux system while you don't need a package manager and nothing gets changed in your system. Awesome!
AppImages are single-file applications that run on most Linux distributions. Download an application, make it executable, and run! No need to install. No system libraries or system preferences are altered. Most AppImages run on recent versions of Arch Linux, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other common desktop distributions.
Running fre:ac on Linux without installation
Unlike other applications, AppImages do not need to be installed before they can be used. However, they need to be marked as executable before they can be run. This is a Linux security feature.Behold! AppImages are usually not verified by others. Follow these instructions only if you trust the developer of the software. Use at your own risk!
Download the fre:ac AppImage and make it executable using your file manager or by entering the following commands in a terminal:
chmod +x ./*.AppImageThen double-click the AppImage in the file manager to open it.
Sandboxing fre:ac
If you want to restrict what fre:ac can do on your system, you can run the AppImage in a sandbox like Firejail. This is entirely optional and currently needs to be configured by the user.
Updating fre:ac
If you would like to update to a new version, simply download the new fre:ac AppImage.
Integrating AppImages into the system
If you would like to have the executable bit set automatically, and would like to see fre:ac and other AppImages integrated into the system (menus, icons, file type associations, etc.), then you may want to check the optional appimaged daemon.
Note for application authors
Thanks for distributing fre:ac in the AppImage format for all common Linux distributions. Great! Here are some ideas on how to make it even better.
Pro Tips for further enhancing the fre:ac AppImage
Please consider to add update information to the fre:ac AppImage and ship a .zsync file so that it can be updated using AppImageUpdate. Tools like appimagetool and linuxdeployqt can do this for you easily.
Thanks for shipping AppStream metainfo inside your AppImage. Please open a pull request on https://github.com/AppImage/appimage.github.io/blob/master/data/fre:ac if you have changed it and would like to see this page updated accordingly.