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Free Lossless Audio Codec
Developer(s)
Xiph.Org Foundation, Josh Coalson, Erik de Castro Lopo
Initial release
20 July 2001; 22 years ago (2001-07-20)
Stable release
1.4.3[1]
/ 23 June 2023; 10 months ago (23 June 2023)
Repository
gitlab.xiph.org/xiph/flac
Written in
C, C++
Operating system
Cross-platform
Type
Codec
License
Command-line tools: GNU GPL Libraries: BSD
Website
xiph.org/flac
Free Lossless Audio Codec
Filename extension
.flac
Internet media type
audio/flac
Uniform Type Identifier (UTI)
org.xiph.flac
Magic number
fLaC[2]
Type of format
Lossless audio
Standard
xiph.org/flac/format.html
Open format?
Yes[3]
Free format?
Yes
FLAC (/flæk/; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software package that includes a codec implementation. Digital audio compressed by FLAC's algorithm can typically be reduced to between 50 and 70 percent of its original size[4] and decompresses to an identical copy of the original audio data.
FLAC is an open format with royalty-free licensing and a reference implementation which is free software. FLAC has support for metadata tagging, album cover art, and fast seeking.
^"FLAC 1.4.3 Released With More Optimizations, Drops PowerPC-Specific Code". 23 June 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
^Coalson, Josh. "FLAC – format". Xiph.Org Foundation. Retrieved 4 April 2013. "fLaC", the FLAC stream marker in ASCII, meaning byte 0 of the stream is 0x66, followed by 0x4C 0x61 0x43
^"PlayOgg!". Free Software Foundation. 17 March 2010. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
^"Looking at Flac Compression Ratios". Steven Pigeon. 7 February 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
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been measured to require around four times as much CPU power to decode than FLAC does, with implications for battery life on limited-power devices. Still...
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format or its successor Opus. Lossless audio compression formats include FLAC, and OggPCM. Before 2007, the .ogg filename extension was used for all files...
also use compression as well. Formats with lossless compression, such as FLAC, Monkey's Audio (filename extension .ape), WavPack (filename extension .wv)...
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data streams are (but many more are also supported, including audio like FLAC or TrueHD): Video: MPEG-H Part 2 (H.265/HEVC), MPEG-4 Part 10 (H.264/AVC)...
all plugins, and allows users to render project audio to WAV, MIDI, MP3, FLAC and OGG. Projects saved while in demo mode, however, can only be opened once...
Cream Sandwich software and was also the first Sony Walkman to support the FLAC format. The M Series (sole model NW-M505) is a small thumb drive styled player...
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necessarily just in MP3 file format, in which higher quality formats such as FLAC and WAV can be used on storage media that MP3 albums reside on, such as CD-R-ROMs...
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