Free Encoder Pack change log

2026-01-22

• WavPack v5.9.0.
• Fixed oggenc2 internal version number.

2026-01-15

• Updated Opus to 1.6.1.
• Replaced LAME encoder with version that includes 'q4' patch to prevent CBR and ABR modes from having unintentional glitches.

2025-12-31

• Updated Opus to v1.6.
• Modified opusenc to extrapolate track boundaries for improved gapless encoding.
• Added support for 32-bit integer and 64-bit floating point inputs.

2025-08-29

• Added detection for Microsoft Store version of foobar2000 and properly handles installing the pack for that version.

2025-05-07

• qaac v2.85.
• refalac v1.85 (fixes encoding 7.1 channel audio).

2025-04-04

• Improved the Apple Music dll copying.
• Installer no longer copies incorrect UWP versions of VC Runtime dlls.

2025-04-02

• Improvements to the portable mode install location finding from browse dialog's memory.
• Added support for copying qaac's required dlls from Apple Music.
• qaac v2.84.
• refalac v1.84.

2025-02-24

• Fixed a very old bug that foobar2000 install location wasn't detected on 32-bit OS.
• Fixed checkboxes being invisible on certain custom OS themes.
• Now bundles and installs 64-bit encoders on a 64-bit OS. Except fhgaacenc remains 32-bit only as the required Winamp dlls are only available in 32-bits.

2025-02-11

• FLAC v1.5.0.
• WavPack v5.8.0.
• qaac v2.83.
• refalac v1.83.

2024-04-23

• No longer requires admin privileges for regular users.
• Gets the default install location for portable foobar2000 from the browse dialog.
• Opus v1.5.2.
• qaac v2.82.
• refalac v1.82.

2024-03-08

• Opus v1.5.1.

2024-03-03

• WavPack v5.7.0
• qaac v2.81.
• refalac v1.81.

2023-07-05

• qaac v2.80.
• refalac v1.80.

2023-07-04

• FLAC v1.4.3.

2023-04-30

• Restores the ability to use Microsoft Store version of iTunes with qaac.
• Added detection for 64-bit foobar2000.
• Opus v1.4.
• qaac v2.79.
• refalac v1.79.

2022-11-30

• WavPack v5.6.0
• qaac v2.77
• refalac v1.77.

2022-10-25

• FLAC v1.4.2.

2022-09-23

• FLAC v1.4.1.

2022-09-10

• Fixed fhgaacenc requirement text as "Winamp 5.62 or newer" wasn't correct. Winamp v5.8 no longer had a license for the Fraunhofer AAC encoder.

2022-09-09

• FLAC v1.4.0.
• WavPack v5.5.0.
• qaac v2.76.
• refalac v1.76.

2022-02-22

• Added support for using Microsoft Store installed iTunes with qaac.
• FLAC v1.3.4.
• qaac v2.73.
• refalac v1.73.

2021-01-22

• WavPack v5.40.
• qaac v2.71.
• refalac v1.71.
• WavPack is custom compile and supports Windows XP.

2020-07-11

• qaac v2.69.
• refalac v1.69.
• oggenc uses libvorbis v1.3.7.

2020-04-17

• WavPack v5.3.0.

2019-12-23

• WavPack v5.2.0.

2019-08-04

• FLAC v1.3.3.

2019-04-25

• Opus uses opus-tools 0.2-3-gf5f571b and libopus v1.3.1.

2018-05-22

• qaac v2.67 and refalac v1.67.

2017-06-27

• Opus v1.2.1.

2017-06-22

• Opus v1.2.

2017-05-31

• Opus uses libopus v1.1.5.

2017-02-13

• FLAC v1.3.2 with patch for 4 GB+ integer overflow bug.

2017-01-24

• Opus now uses opus-tools v0.1.10.

2017-01-22

• WavPack v5.1.0.
• Opus v1.1.4.

2017-01-02

• FLAC v1.3.2 without forced SSE2 requirement.
• refalac v1.62.
• qaac v2.62.

2016-12-09

• WavPack v5.0.
• refalac v1.61.
• and qaac v2.61.

2015-09-09

• refalac v1.59.
• qaac v2.59.
• Wavpack v4.80
• Opus uses libopus v1.1.3.

2015-03-22

• Added refalac.