FLAC
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=== Hardware === | === Hardware === | ||
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| − | + | Many home stereo and portable hardware music players support the FLAC format. See the [http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html FLAC links] page for an up-to-date list. | |
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=== Software === | === Software === | ||
| − | * Amarok | + | |
| − | * foobar2000 | + | A number of popular audio players support the FLAC format, including: |
| − | * MediaMonkey | + | |
| − | * Songbird | + | * [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok] (cross-platform, open source) |
| − | * VLC | + | * [http://www.foobar2000.org/ foobar2000] (Windows, non-commercial) |
| − | * Winamp | + | * [http://www.mediamonkey.com/ MediaMonkey] (Windows, commercial) |
| + | * [http://www.getsongbird.com/ Songbird] (cross-platform, open source) | ||
| + | * [http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html VLC] (cross-platform, open source) | ||
| + | * [http://www.winamp.com/ Winamp] (Windows, commercial) | ||
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| + | For more software products which support FLAC, see the [http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html FLAC links page] | ||
== Links == | == Links == | ||
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/ Home of FLAC project] | * [http://flac.sourceforge.net/ Home of FLAC project] | ||
* [http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html FLAC format description] | * [http://flac.sourceforge.net/format.html FLAC format description] | ||
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Description
FLAC is a file format and codec for losslessly compressed audio. It can store audio with a PCM bit resolution up to 32 bits per sample and sampling rates up to 640 kHz.
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)
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)
For more software products which support FLAC, see the FLAC links page
