Portable fre:ac (formerly Portable BonkEnc) 1.0.20a - Changelog

What's new in Portable fre:ac (formerly Portable BonkEnc) 1.0.20a:

March 27th, 2012

· fre:ac version 1.0.20a is now available fixing two compatibility issues in yesterday's 1.0.20 release.

· The new release fixes an unintended dependency on Intel's svml_disp.dll runtime library as well as bogus error messages when running on AMD processors. The former was introduces through an incautiousness when compiling the updated LAME and Ogg codec libraries. The latter was caused by a known bug in the latest Intel compiler release and had to be worked around explicitly in fre:ac 1.0.20a.

· Upgrading to fre:ac v1.0.20a is strongly recommended to users of v1.0.20 and recommended to all users of previous versions.

What's new in Portable fre:ac (formerly Portable BonkEnc) 1.0.19:

May 10th, 2011

· This release fixes a crash when decoding MP3 files as well as some other bugs. Besides that it also includes an update Ogg Vorbis encoder and translation updates.

What's new in Portable fre:ac (formerly Portable BonkEnc) 1.0.18:

April 4th, 2011

· Notable changes in this release are support for gapless MP3 decoding, improved CD-Text support for sampler CDs, an updated Ogg Vorbis encoder and improved support for uncompressed audio formats like Wave and AIFF. The new release also includes the usual translation updates and bug fixes.

What's new in Portable fre:ac (formerly Portable BonkEnc) 1.0.17:

November 15th, 2010

· The new release reflects the project name change from BonkEnc to fre:ac. It includes translation updates and fixes some bugs found in previous versions.

What's new in Portable fre:ac (formerly Portable BonkEnc) 1.0.16:

September 23rd, 2010

· This release includes translation updates and fixes several bugs and glitches found in previous versions.

What's new in Portable fre:ac (formerly Portable BonkEnc) 1.0.15:

July 8th, 2010

· Adds support for Windows Media Audio (WMA) encoding and decoding. It also includes an updated LAME encoder, updated translations, various smaller improvements and several bug fixes.

What's new in Portable fre:ac (formerly Portable BonkEnc) 1.0.14:

July 8th, 2010

· Fixes a problem that lead to the program hanging or crashing on some Windows 7 systems. It also features significant speed optimizations for single and multi core systems, a new MP3 decoder and some minor other improvements.
· Adds support for languages written from right to left and already includes preliminary Arabic and Hebrew language files. If you speak a language such as Arabic, Persian, Urdu or Hebrew, you are welcome to contribute your translations.

What's new in Portable fre:ac (formerly Portable BonkEnc) 1.0.13:

July 8th, 2010

· Improves support for multi-core CPUs by using multi-core optimized encoders and decoders. The optimizations can speed up conversions up to 3x on quad core processors.
· Adds support for Vietnamese and Galician language plus a Czech user manual.

What's new in Portable fre:ac (formerly Portable BonkEnc) 1.0.11:

March 8th, 2009

· BonkEnc version 1.0.11 is available now. It includes an updated FAAC/FAAD2 AAC encoder/decoder, translation updates and several bug fixes.

· It also introduces a new file name pattern that allows to rebuild an existing subdirectory structure in the output directory. Usage of the new pattern is explained in the "How to ...?" section of the manual.

· Upgrading to the new release is recommended for all users of previous versions of BonkEnc. The new release is available in the downloads section.