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  • fre:ac

  • fre:ac (formerly BonkEnc) is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. It currently converts between MP3, MP4/M4A, WMA, Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, WAV and Bonk formats.

    tags: Portable WINE mp3 audio-conversion ogg
  • X Lossless Decoder

  • X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. Supports: (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg), Monkey's Audio (.ape), Wavpack (.wv), TTA (.tta), Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 and later], AIFF, WAV, etc

    tags: ape audio-conversion audio-decoder cue-sheets cue-to-tracks
  • LameXP

  • LameXP is an Audio Encoder Front-End, a graphical user-interface for a number of audio encoders. It was developed to support a huge number of input formats. File formats are detected reliably using MediaInfo. Compressed audio formats are decoded to uncompressed Wave files using suitable CLI audio decoders. Furthermore LameXP allows batch processing of multiple audio files. Multi-threading is implemented by processing several audio files concurrently. All the third-party tools incorporated in LameXP are listed in the "About" dialog. The Nero AAC encoder cannot be redistributed due to licensing issues; it is available as a free download from the public Nero web-site. ยป

    tags: Portable audio-batch-conversion audio-conversion audio-encoder batch-conversion
  • CDDA paranoia

  • Audio CD digital audio extraction application cdparanoia. Cdparanoia extracts audio from compact discs directly as data, with no analog step between, and writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM.

    tags: audio-cd-ripper
  • Multi frontend

  • Multi frontend is a Windows GUI (grafical user interface) for the following console audio encoders/decoders: BladeEnc, FAAC and FAAD, Fraunhofer Fastenc and MP3Enc, Gogo-no-coda, LAME, MAD, Mpadec, MusePack, NEncode, Ogg Vorbis, Psytel aacenc and fastenc, QuickTime MPEG-4, Speex, TooLAME, FLAC, LA, LPAC, Monkey's Audio, OptimFROG, Shorten, TTA, WavPack. And also for: MP3Gain, ReplayGain for MusePack, VorbisGain, WaveGain and Tag.

    tags: Discontinued frontend flac audio-encoder vorbis
  • ALL2LAME

  • [No longer maintained, but downloadable] ALL2LAME is a free Windows front-end for the LAME MP3 encoder. It's very easy to use:

    tags: frontend encoder audio-encoder lame
  • BootTunes

  • Imports live recordings downloaded from sites like etree (etree.org), Dimeadozen (dimeadozen.org), and The Trader's Den (tradersden.org) into iTunes, converting the source FLAC or SHN files into ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), automatically tagging the files, and generating unique album art.

    tags: flac live-music shn alac bootlegs