Frontah

Frontah is a lightweight software program designed to help you perform audio encoding and decoding tasks, while supporting many standard audio formats.

Simple interface

The graphical user interface is pretty easy to decode. It holds a couple of large buttons that point to the main features of the app, a slider that is meant to help users manually set the MP3 encoding frequency, as well as a progress bar and the file encoding queue.

Flexible encoding options

The program offers support for a vast amount of audio file formats, like MP3, MPC, OGG, FLAC, APE, and WAV. It is able to show information about the average bitrate, length, encoder type, and additional details while encoding. However, this application is script-based which means that it might gain support for more other formats in the future.
Additionally, music files can be encoded with ReplayGain or even get resampled in 16- or 24-bit. Users can change the tag and file information. Full Unicode support is also present.
Frontah offers a couple of settings that deal with the overall interface design, tagging, and output options. For the output preferences users can select to preserve or delete the original file date.
Users can also type in a default tag filename to rename songs after the encoding process is complete. Many other similar filters and post-encoding parameters are present.

Conclusion

Frontah is an excellent program for carrying out audio decoding tasks that offers all the advantages of being an open-source program. This way, plugins and more features will be supported by the tool once they get released by the community.
However, one of the main hurdles is the slightly difficult-to-handle interface. Although the layout is simple, more relevant options are placed in less than common positions, making things a bit unfamiliar for new users. Nevertheless, the effectiveness of Frontah is extremely useful in case sound files need to be encoded in common or more specific audio formats.