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'''FLAC''' is a Free Lossless Audio Codec. It can encode audio with a PCM bit resolution up to 32 bits per sample and sampling rates up to 640 kHz. FLAC-encoded audio is usually found either in a native container (which has the extension <code>.flac</code>), or in an [[Ogg]] container (when it's known as OggFLAC). | '''FLAC''' is a Free Lossless Audio Codec. It can encode audio with a PCM bit resolution up to 32 bits per sample and sampling rates up to 640 kHz. FLAC-encoded audio is usually found either in a native container (which has the extension <code>.flac</code>), or in an [[Ogg]] container (when it's known as OggFLAC). | ||
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* data integrity | * data integrity | ||
* error resistant (bit faults are contained within a frame, typically a fraction of a second) | * error resistant (bit faults are contained within a frame, typically a fraction of a second) | ||
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+ | == Identification == | ||
+ | When FLAC is used as a file format, it begins with the ASCII signature "{{magic|fLaC}}". | ||
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+ | In rare cases, this signature may appear following an ID3v2 segment; see [[ID3#Identification]]. | ||
== Playback == | == Playback == | ||
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== Specifications == | == Specifications == | ||
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* [https://xiph.org/flac/format.html FLAC Format Specification] | * [https://xiph.org/flac/format.html FLAC Format Specification] | ||
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+ | == Sample files == | ||
+ | * https://telparia.com/fileFormatSamples/audio/flac/ | ||
== Links == | == Links == |
Revision as of 00:52, 23 October 2020
FLAC is a Free Lossless Audio Codec. It can encode audio with a PCM bit resolution up to 32 bits per sample and sampling rates up to 640 kHz. FLAC-encoded audio is usually found either in a native container (which has the extension .flac
), or in an Ogg container (when it's known as OggFLAC).
The format is open and royalty-free. The reference implementation is cross-platform and dual-licensed, command-line utilities (e.g. encoder, decoder and metadata editor) use GNU GPL and code libraries use BSD.
FLAC is suitable for archiving for many reasons:
- open format
- support for metadata tagging
- lossless (no generation loss if you need to convert to another format)
- disk size effective (audio is typically reduced to 50-60% of original size)
- data integrity
- error resistant (bit faults are contained within a frame, typically a fraction of a second)
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Identification
When FLAC is used as a file format, it begins with the ASCII signature "fLaC
".
In rare cases, this signature may appear following an ID3v2 segment; see ID3#Identification.
Playback
Hardware
Many home stereo and portable hardware music players support the FLAC format. See the FLAC links page for an up-to-date list.
Software
A number of popular audio players support the FLAC format, including:
- Amarok (cross-platform, open source)
- foobar2000 (Windows, non-commercial)
- MediaMonkey (Windows, commercial)
- Songbird (cross-platform, open source)
- VLC (cross-platform, open source)
- Winamp (Windows, commercial)
FLAC is also natively supported by Mozilla's Firefox browser, starting from Firefox 51. For more software products which support FLAC, see the FLAC links page