Flacon 13.0.1

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Added “Catalog number” tag
The work of the program in console mode has been greatly improved
The program is available as an AppImage for ARM
Fixed incorrect tab order on tag fields
Fixed ReplayGain setting not persisting after restart
Minor fixes and improvements

Flacon 12.0.0

Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Added columns to the table to display the tags “Date”, “Genre” and “Song writer”.
Added the ability to specify a proxy server to get disk information from internet.
Added a dialog for viewing the log. Now if you have a problem you can send me logs just by copying them from this dialog.
Significantly revised display and editing of tags. The tags are now more clearly divided into album related and track related.
Increased speed of disk validation for errors in output files.
The limits for the Disk Number and Number of Disks fields have been increased to 999.
Bug fix. The program crashed after the end of conversion if an old version of Qt was used. In particular, crashes of AppImage version are fixed.
Bug fix. Sometimes the program selected wrong directory for output files.
Compatibility with macOS and FreeBSD has been improved.
Many minor fixes and improvements.
Translations updated.

Flacon 11.4.0

Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Improved pre-conversion checks. Now the program checks that tracks from different discs are not mixed.
Compatibility of the output CUE with some players has been improved.
Added ability to build a program using Qt6.
Minor appearance improvements and minor bug fixes.
Translations updated.

Flacon 11.3.0

Wed, 04 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Fix. Program incorrect work with pre-emphased disks
Fix. Sometimes the program did not save the output directory
Improved audio file search for multiaudio discs.
For multi-audio discs, a check has been added that the same audio files are not specified for tracks.
Improved delete source dialogue
Minor fixes and improvements
Translations updated

Flacon 11.2.0

Sat, 17 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The “convert” button on the toolbar can trigger two actions:
- Convert - Converts all tracks (previous behavior)
- Convert selected - Converts only selected tracks
Fixed a bug in the AppImage version that caused built-in codecs not to be used
Enabled translations for AppImage version of the program

Flacon 11.1.0

Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Fix: In some situations, the program did not check whether the sox program was installed.
Catalina is the minimum supported version of macOS

Flacon 11.0.0

Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

If you try to close the program while the conversion is in progress, the program will ask for confirmation
Added a menu item to delete the source files for successfully converted disks
Small fixes to the algorithm for creating per track CUE files
Improved diagnostics of erroneous situations:
1. Error if tracks overwrite files (taking into account the template)
2. Error if there are tracks with the same track number and creating files in the same directory. The pattern doesn’t matter
3. Warning if any disks use the same CUE file
4. Warning if any disks use the same audio file
Fix: The program show an error when the source files are located on slow network drives
Fix: The program show an error on WV files larger than 2 gigabytes
Minor fixes
Translations updated

Flacon 10.0.0

Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Now the program does not use external utilities to calculate ReplayGain, instead the built-in method is used. This accelerated the conversion process and reduced the number of dependencies.
For package maintainers: Note that metaflac, mp3gain, vorbisgain and wvgain are no longer needed.
Improved error handling. Before starting the conversion, you can view all errors and warnings in one window.
Fixed bug: When changing the “Artist” field, the “Album Artist” field mistakenly becomes “Multiple Values”
Fixed bug: In macOS, the size of the main window was not saved.
Translations updated

Flacon 9.5.1

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Fixed bug: In the tag editing fields, the text cursor jumped to the end of the line after entering a letter.
Before starting the conversion, the program checks that the disks will not overwrite each other’s output files.
Translations updated

Flacon 9.4.0

Sun, 02 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Fixed bug. The program did not work with CUE files containing multiple audio file tags
Translations updated

Flacon 9.3.0

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The program gives a clear error message if the necessary utilities (sox, encoders, etc.) are missing
Improved error handling in utilities (sam, encoders, etc.)
In some situations, in debug mode, the program did not output messages
Minor fixes
Translations updated

Flacon 9.2.0

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Improved algorithm of cover auto selection. Square pictures have a priority over other.
Improved the display of icons on high-resolution monitors.
The current conversion status is displayed in the main window title.
Fixed a bug with text color on tooltips in Linux. Previously, the text color was slightly different from the background color.
Minor fixes

Flacon 9.1.0

Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

You can now get tags from MusicBrainz and Discogs.
Support for CUE files with gaps appended to the end of the previous track (Noncompliant).
Minor improvements.
Translations updated.

Flacon 9.0.0

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Added support for ALAC output files
Added the ability to embed the cover in the output ALAC, AAC, MP3, Opus and WavPack files. For FLAC files, this was available before.
Fixed processing of Asian languages when encoding FLAC files.
Minor improvements to the appearance and behavior of the program.
Translations updated.

Flacon 8.3.0

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Fix: If the CUE file contains two discs, then the program incorrectly calculated the duration of the tracks.
The program automatically calculates the number of threads to encode. You can change this in the preferences dialog.

Flacon 8.2.0

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000

The program can split huge FLAC files (more than 4GB)
Added support for Sony Wave64 input files.
Fix: The program incorrectly processed the relative paths to the output directory for embedded CUE.
Translations updated.

Flacon 8.1.0

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Added support for pre-emphasis CD images.
Added support for embedded CUE for input and output FLAC files. If your FLAC file contains a CUE in the metadata, then the program can use it.
You can not only copy the cover image to a file, but also embed it in the output FLAC files.
Improved the preferences dialog. The settings are divided into separate tabs.
Now you can manually input the Disc ID in case the CUE file does not contain one.
Use https://gnudb.gnudb.org by default as CDDB server.
Fixed: When converting audio, the image is not copied to the destination folder.
A number of minor improvements and bug fixes.
Translations updated.

Flacon 7.0.1

Sun, 25 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Added informative error messages when the program can’t load an audio file:
- The audio file does not exist.
- The audio file may be corrupted or an unsupported audio format.
- Decoder program is not installed.
- Decoder program is installed in the settings but binary file does not exist.
Improved warning messages:
- Do not show a warning if the output format does not support the quality of the input HD audio, but you have set the correct bits per sample and sample rate in the preferences.
Redesigned the logic of loading CUE files containing multiple files, for example, 2 sides of an LP. Now they are displayed as a single list, have a single track numbering, and allow you to change album tags in a single operation.
Fixed: Flacon refuses to compute ReplayGain for no good reason
Improved search for covers arts.
Added better icons for dark themes.
Added a few codepages for some East Asian languages.
Translations updated.

Flacon 6.1.0

Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Save TOTALDISCS and DISCNUMBER tags to the output CUE file.
Now the program removes temporary files more carefully.
Imporove main menu items.
Because freedb.org died, the program uses gnudb.org instead. Added a graphical interface for selecting other CDDB servers.
Translations updated.

Flacon 6.0.0

Sat, 30 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Added support of profiles, you can have different encoding options for different cases, such as maximum quality for your computer, and CD quality for your phone.
Improved usability of the preferences dialog.
Added dark theme support for MacOS.
Now the program generates file names that are safe for Windows file systems.
Support for sampling rates greater than 192000 Hz.
When used in console mode, the program prints information about the status of tracks conversion.
Many small improvements and bug fixes.
Translations updated.

Flacon 5.5.1

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Fix. The program could not convert HD FLAC files if you are using flac version 1.33.
The program creates safer file names for Windows compatibility.
Improve error handling.
Added Flatpak package for the program.
The program forces UTF-8 to save the settings.
Minor improvements to the appearance and behavior of the program.
Translations updated.
Fix tag encoding on MacOS.

Flacon 5.4.0

Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Ability to put the disc number into the output filename.
Fix of regression. Templates are always inserted at the end of pattern editor.
Translations updated.

Flacon 5.3.0

Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Fix of regression. Selection does not work.

Flacon 5.2.0

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Fix: The flacon doesn’t handle CUE files when a track has index greater than 01.
Retina display support.
The preferences dialog was too small so users could not find some settings. Added size limit for the window.
Improved message window for conversion errors.
Minor improvements to the appearance and behavior of the program.
Translations updated.

Flacon 5.1.0

Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Added ability to extract only selected tracks.
Now you can change the name of the output CUE file..
Fix: In some situations, the program crashes when downloading information from the Internet.
Improved appearance and behavior of the program.
Translations updated.

Flacon 5.0.0

Mon, 05 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Added support to change sample rate and bit depth for output audio files.
Added new tags - “Album performer”, Disk number” and “Disk count”.
Added extended dialog to edit all tags.
Fix the CUE parser.
Improved appearance and behavior of the program.
Translations updated.

Flacon 4.1.0

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Fix the program crashes on broken audio files.
Improvements to handling encoding errors.
Improved appearance and behavior of the program under Mac OS.
Added file associations in Mac OS
Added updater for Mac OS version.
Translations updated.

Flacon 4.0.0 for MacOS

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0000

We‘re happy to announce that the Flacon available for MacOS.