FLAC - What is FLAC?
Oct 22, 2022 · FLAC stands out as the fastest and most widely supported lossless audio codec, and the only one that at once is non-proprietary, is unencumbered by patents, has an open-source reference implementation, has a well documented format and API, and has several other independent implementations.
FLAC - Features - Xiph.Org Foundation
FLAC stands out as the fastest and most widely supported lossless audio codec, and the only one that at once is non-proprietary, is unencumbered by patents, has an open-source reference implementation, has a well documented format and API, and has several other independent implementations.
FLAC - Downloads - Xiph.Org Foundation
Downloads. If you are not sure what to download, see Using FLAC for instructions and guides on playing FLAC files, ripping CDs to FLAC, etc. This section is for the official FLAC tools.
FLAC - FLAC 1.4.0 released - Xiph.Org Foundation
FLAC 1.4.0 released. 09 Sep 2022. This release brings many small improvements and a few large ones. Here are the most important for end-users: FLAC can now encode and decode 32 bit-per-sample audio. This means the FLAC format is now one step closer to being fully implemented.
FLAC - Documentation - Xiph.Org Foundation
About the FLAC Format - An overview of the FLAC format for power users. Official Tools - How to use the flac and metaflac command-line tools. Comparison - A comparison of FLAC with other lossless codecs. Bugs - How to report bugs and request features, and a …
FLAC - FAQ - Xiph.Org Foundation
FLAC is a general-purpose audio format, not just a compressed WAVE file format. There's a subtle difference. WAVE is a complicated standard; many kinds of data besides audio data can be put in it. FLAC's purpose is not to reproduce a WAVE file, including all the non-audio data that is in it, it is to losslessly compress the audio.
FLAC - Format overview - Xiph.Org Foundation
Like most audio codecs, FLAC splits the unencoded audio data into blocks, and encodes each block separately. The encoded block is packed into a frame and appended to the stream. The reference encoder uses a single block size for the whole stream but the FLAC format does not require it. BLOCKING.
FLAC - Using FLAC - Xiph.Org Foundation
Since FLAC is supported by so many different programs, it can be a daunting task for the new user to choose a suitable program. This page will walk you through the steps. First, choose what environment you want to play FLAC files: Windows. Mac OS. Linux, *BSD, and other Unixes.
FLAC - FLAC 1.4.3 released - Xiph.Org Foundation
FLAC 1.4.3 released. 23 Jun 2023. The development for this release focused on the tools, flac and metaflac, whereas the previous few releases had the focus on libFLAC. The main improvement in flac is its handling of foreign metadata on decoding a file (i.e. restoring the foreign metadata), metaflac has had a few features added.
FLAC - Format - Xiph.Org Foundation
This page describes various aspects of the FLAC format from a software developers points-of-view, in other words, which bits and bytes in a FLAC file contain what information and how these should be encoded to or decoded from.