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Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is a file format for audio data compression. Being a lossless compression format, FLAC does not remove information from the audio stream, as lossy compression formats such as MP3, AAC, and Vorbis do. “Flak” redirects here. ... A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate its type. ... An Internet media type,[1] originally called a MIME type after MIME and sometimes a Content-type after the name of a header in several protocols whose value is such a type, is a two-part identifier for file formats on the Internet. ... For other uses, see Software developer (disambiguation). ... The Xiph. ... Code complete redirects here. ... is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... An operating system (OS) is a software that manages computer resources and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... An audio codec is a computer program that compresses/decompresses digital audio data according to a given audio file format or streaming audio format. ... An audio file format is a container format for storing audio data on a computer system. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... GPL redirects here. ... The BSD daemon BSD licenses represent a family of permissive free software licenses. ... The Xiph. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... A file format is a particular way to encode information for storage in a computer file. ... Audio compression is a form of data compression designed to reduce the size of audio files. ... Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. ... A lossy data compression method is one where compressing data and then decompressing it retrieves data that may well be different from the original, but is close enough to be useful in some way. ... For other uses, see MP3 (disambiguation). ... Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. ... Vorbis is an open source, lossy audio codec project headed by the Xiph. ...

Like other methods of compression, FLAC's main advantage is the reduction of bandwidth or storage requirements, but without sacrificing the integrity of the audio source. For example, a digital recording (such as a CD) encoded to FLAC can be decompressed into an identical copy of the audio data. Audio sources encoded to FLAC are typically reduced in size 40 to 50 percent (47% according to their own comparison).^[2] CD redirects here. ...

FLAC is suitable for everyday playback and audio archival, with support for tagging, cover art and fast seeking. FLAC's free and open source royalty-free nature makes it well-supported by many software applications, however, FLAC playback support in portable audio devices and dedicated audio systems is limited at this time.^[3] Josh Coalson is the primary author of FLAC. Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ... ...

On January 29, 2003, Xiphophorus (now called the Xiph.Org Foundation) announced the incorporation of FLAC under their banner, alongside Vorbis, Theora, Speex, and others. is the 29th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Xiph. ... Vorbis is an open source, lossy audio codec project headed by the Xiph. ... Theora is a video codec being developed by the Xiph. ... Speex is a free software speech codec that may be used on VoIP applications and podcasts. ...

The project

The FLAC project consists of:

• The stream format
• A simple container format for the stream, also called FLAC (or Native FLAC)
• libFLAC, a library of reference encoders and decoders, and a metadata interface
• libFLAC++, an object wrapper around libFLAC
• flac, a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode FLAC streams
• metaflac, a command-line metadata editor for .flac files and for applying Replay Gain
• Input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, foobar2000, musikCube, and many more)
• With Xiph.org incorporation, the Ogg container format, suitable for streaming (also called Ogg FLAC)

"Free" means that the specification of the stream format can be implemented by anyone without prior permission (Xiph.org reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any patent. It also means that the reference implementation is free software. The sources for libFLAC and libFLAC++ are available under Xiph.org's BSD license, and the sources for flac, metaflac, and the plugins are available under the GPL. A container format is a computer file format that can contain various types of data, compressed by means of standardized codecs. ... Replay Gain is a proposed standard published in 2001 to normalize the perceived loudness of computer audio formats such as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. ... Winamp is a proprietary media player written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of Time Warner. ... XMMSs default appearance The X Multimedia System (XMMS) is a free audio player very similar to Winamp, that runs on many Unix-like operating systems. ... foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows developed by Peter Pawlowski, a former freelance contractor for Nullsoft. ... The correct title of this article is . ... Ogg is an open standard for a free container format for digital multimedia, unrestricted by software patents and designed for efficient streaming and manipulation. ... An encoder is a device used to encode a signal (such as a bitstream) or data into a form that is acceptable for transmission or storage. ... A Digitrax DH163AT DCC decoder in an Athearn locomotive before the shell goes on. ... Free software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things. ... The BSD daemon BSD licenses represent a family of permissive free software licenses. ... GPL redirects here. ...

In its stated goals, the FLAC project encourages its developers not to implement copy prevention features of any kind.^[3]

Comparisons

FLAC is specifically designed for efficient packing of audio data, unlike general lossless algorithms such as ZIP and gzip. While ZIP may compress a CD-quality audio file by 10 - 20%, FLAC achieves compression rates of 30 - 50% for most music, with significantly greater compression for voice recordings. The ZIP file format is the most widely-used compressed file format in the IBM PC world. ... gzip is a software application used for file compression. ...

Lossy codecs can achieve ratios of 80% or more by discarding data from the original stream. FLAC uses linear prediction to convert the audio samples to a series of small, uncorrelated numbers (known as the residual), which are stored efficiently using Golomb-Rice coding. It also uses run-length encoding for blocks of identical samples, such as silent passages. The technical strengths of FLAC compared to other lossless codecs lie in its ability to be streamed and in a fast decode time, which is independent of compression level. Linear prediction is a mathematical operation where future values of a discrete-time signal are estimated as a linear function of previous samples. ... Golomb coding is a form of entropy encoding invented by Solomon W. Golomb that is optimal for alphabets following geometric distributions, that is, when small values are vastly more common than large values. ... Run-length encoding (RLE) is a very simple form of data compression in which runs of data (that is, sequences in which the same data value occurs in many consecutive data elements) are stored as a single data value and count, rather than as the original run. ...

As with any lossless scheme, FLAC is also a popular archive format for owners of CDs and other media who wish to preserve their audio collections. If the original media is lost, damaged, or worn out, a FLAC copy of the audio tracks ensures that an exact duplicate of the original data can be recovered at any time. An exact restoration from a lossy archive (e.g., MP3) of the same data is impossible. A CUE file can optionally be created when ripping a CD. If a CD is read and ripped perfectly to FLAC files, the CUE file allows later burning of an audio CD that is identical in audio data to the original CD, including track order, pregaps, and CD-Text. However, additional data present on some audio CDs such as lyrics and CD+G graphics are beyond the scope of a CUE file and most ripping software, so that data will not be archived. CD redirects here. ... Cue Sheet in Notepad A cue sheet, or cue file, is an ASCII (plain text) file that specifies how the tracks of a compact disc should be laid out. ... For the process of sawing wood along the grain, see Rip saw. ... The pregap on a Red Book audio CD is the portion of the audio track that precedes index 01 for a given track in the table of contents (TOC). ... CD-Text is an extension of the Red Book standard for audio CDs. ... A CD+G (also known as CD+Graphics) is a special audio compact disc that contains graphics data in addition to the audio data on the disc. ...

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has adopted the FLAC format over its Euroradio network for the distribution of high quality audio. EBU redirects here. ...

The Hydrogenaudio Wiki features a comparison of lossless codecs, including FLAC.

Technical details

FLAC supports only fixed-point samples, not floating-point. It can handle any PCM bit resolution from 4 to 32 bits per sample, any sampling rate from 1 Hz to 1,048,570 Hz in 1 Hz increments, and any number of channels from 1 to 8. Channels can be grouped in cases like stereo and 5.1 channel surround to take advantage of interchannel correlations to increase compression. FLAC uses CRC checksums for identifying corrupted frames when used in a streaming protocol, and also has a complete MD5 hash of the raw PCM audio stored in its STREAMINFO metadata header. In mathematics, a fixed point of a function f is an argument x such that f(x) = x; see fixed point (mathematics). ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... PCM is an initialism which can have different meanings: Phase Change Material Pulse-code modulation, a way to digitally encode signals representing sound and their video counterparts Potential Cancer Marker Communist Party of Mexico Plug Compatible Manufacturer Power-train control module, a computer in a car which controls the car... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the unit of information. ... The sampling frequency or sampling rate defines the number of samples per second taken from a continuous signal to make a discrete signal. ... This article is about the SI unit of frequency. ... Label for 2. ... Multichannel audio is the name for a variety of techniques for expanding and enriching the sound of audio playback by recording additional sound channels that can be reproduced on additional speakers. ... A cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is a type of function that takes an input of data stream of any length and produces as output a value of a certain fixed size. ... In cryptography, MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a widely used cryptographic hash function with a 128-bit hash value. ...

FLAC allows for Rice parameter between 0-16, and up to 8 channels of audio and a wide range of sampling rates up to 192 kHz, in various bits-per-sample width. FLAC also supports Replay Gain. Replay Gain is a proposed standard published in 2001 to normalize the perceived loudness of computer audio formats such as MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. ...

FLAC is implemented as the libFLAC core encoder & decoder library with the main distributable program flac being the reference program utilizing the libFLAC API. This codec API is also available in C++ as libFLAC++. A codec is a device or program capable of encoding and/or decoding a digital data stream or signal. ...

The reference implementation of FLAC compiles on many platforms, including most Unix (such as Solaris and Mac OS X) and Unix-like (including Linux and BSD), Windows, BeOS, and OS/2 operating systems. There are build systems for autoconf/automake, MSVC, Watcom C, and Xcode. Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... The Solaris Operating System, usually known simply as Solaris, is a free Unix-based operating system introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1992 as the successor to SunOS. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, as well for being the origin for many innovative features such as DTrace... Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Diagram of the relationships between several Unix-like systems A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification. ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Windows redirects here. ... BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. ... OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. ... Flow diagram of autoconf and automake Autoconf is a tool for producing shell scripts that automatically configure software source code packages to adapt to many kinds of UNIX-like systems. ... Automake is a programming tool that produces portable makefiles for use by the make program, used in compiling software. ... Visual C++ 6. ... Watcom International Corporation was founded in 1981 from the research of the Computer Systems Group at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ... Xcode is Apple Computers IDE for developing applications and other software for Mac OS X. It is shipped free with Mac OS X. First introduced on October 24, 2003 along with the release of Mac OS X v10. ...

For tagging, FLAC uses the same system as Vorbis comments.^[4] A Vorbis comment is a metadata container used in the Vorbis, FLAC, and Speex audio file formats. ...

API Organization

libFLAC API is organized into streams, seekable streams, and files (listed in the order of increasing abstraction from the base FLAC bitstream). Most FLAC applications will generally restrict themselves to encoding/decoding using libFLAC at the file level interface.

Software support

Encoding

• Cross-Platform
  • FFmpeg
  • Flake
  • Audacity 1.3.3 Beta Native FLAC support now included
  • VLC media player 0.8.6a
  • Juce
  • aTunes
• Windows
  • SMPlayer
  • KMPlayer
  • Ease Audio Converter
  • Easy Media Creator
  • Easy CD-DA Extractor
  • Exact Audio Copy
  • Nero Burning ROM with optional external filter plug-in
  • dBpoweramp Music Converter with official codec
  • MediaMonkey
  • Winamp native FLAC support now included
  • JetAudio
  • foobar2000 with official external encoder
  • MP3 Stream Editor with official external encoder
  • Omni Encoder with official external encoder
  • Burrrn
  • Flac Frontend
  • Total Audio Converter
  • Vegas Pro 8[1]
  • VUPlayer[2]
  • Yahoo! Music Jukebox
  • Roxio Easy Media Creator
• Mac OS X
  • Toast Titanium, beginning with version 7
  • xACT, not to be confused with Microsoft's XACT audio programming library
  • Max
  • MacFLAC

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Decoding

• Cross-Platform
  • FFmpeg
  • aTunes
  • Audacity 1.3.3 Beta
  • JUCE (cross-platform C++ toolkit that has embedded FLAC support)
  • Linn Digital Stream Players (see below for range of devices)
  • MPlayer
  • Songbird
  • Squeezebox
  • The Core Pocket Media Player with flac plugin
  • VLC media player
  • Total Audio Converter
• Mac OS X
  • FLAC Importer, Quicktime Component
  • Cog
  • Play
  • xACT, not to be confused with Microsoft's XACT audio programming library
  • MacFLAC, decodes to file, no player functionality
  • FLACer
• Windows
  • AIMP
  • ALTools-based ALSong
  • Ease Audio Converter
  • foobar2000
  • iTunes after installing codec from Xiph (Ogg FLAC only)
  • Cirlinca DVD-AUDIO Solo can import FLAC to burn DVD-Audio discs
  • JetAudio
  • KSP Sound Player plugin included with normal install
  • MediaMonkey
  • MP3 Stream Editor plugin included with normal install
  • Cockos REAPER Multitrack Recorder and Editor
  • Renoise supports import and export from version 1.8
  • Quintessential Player with flac plugin
  • The KMPlayer
  • TRAKTOR 3
  • TRAKTOR Scratch
  • TVersity, using ffdshow to transcode stream to WAV
  • Vegas Pro 8[3]
  • VUPlayer[4]
  • Winamp
  • Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic with third-party plugin
  • FairStars Audio Converter
  • Yahoo! Music Jukebox
• Linux
  • Audacious
  • Banshee (music player)
  • Baudline
  • cmus
  • mpd
  • ogg123 (if compiled against flac - ogg123 is part of the 'vorbis-tools' package)
  • Xine
  • XMMS
  • GNOME
    • GnomeBaker
    • Rhythmbox
    • Totem Movie Player
    • Serpentine
  • KDE
    • Amarok
    • JuK
    • Audiokonverter (from the context menu pop-up)

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GnomeBaker is a free CD/DVD authoring application for GNU/Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. ... Rhythmbox is an audio player that plays and helps organize digital music. ... Totem Movie Player is a media player (audio and video) for the GNOME personal computer desktop environment which runs on Linux, Solaris, BSD and other UNIX and UNIX-like systems. ... Serpentine is a GNOME-based audio CD authorizing application. ... For the NYSE stock ticker symbol KDE, see 4Kids Entertainment. ... Amarok is a free software music player for Linux and other varieties of Unix. ... JuK is an audio player for KDE, part of the kdemultimedia package. ...

Ripping

• Cross-Platform
  • aTunes
• Windows
  • BonkEnc using the FLAC.dll API
  • CD to MP3 Maker
  • CDex using the external encoder option (now lists "flac.dll" as an encoder option if flac is installed)
  • DBpoweramp
  • Easy CD-DA Extractor
  • Exact Audio Copy using the external encoder
  • foobar2000 using the Converter plugin and the external encoder
  • MediaMonkey
  • MP3 Stream Editor using the official external encoder (single mode/album mode/full cover picture support)
  • JetAudio
  • Winamp
  • PlexTools
  • Yahoo! Music Jukebox
• Mac OS X
  • Max (Mac OS 10.4 or higher)
• Linux
  • ABCDE
  • Banshee (music player)
  • Cdda2wav
  • Cdparanoia
  • Mencoder
  • crip
  • RipIt (Command line tool)
  • GNOME
    • Grip
    • RipOff
    • Sound Juicer
  • KDE
    • K3b
    • KAudioCreator
    • Konqueror

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Hardware support

Native

• Escient^[5]
• iAudio (Cowon) - A2, A3, 6, 7, F2, M3, M5, X5, U3, U5^[6], D2, native support with newer firmwares.
• Olive (Symphony, Musica, Opus)^[7]
• PhatBox Hard Drive based in car Digital Media Player from PhatNoise
• Rio Karma
• Squeezebox and Transporter network music players from Slim Devices. Current products decode natively. Old v1 units transcode to PCM on the server.
• Sonos
• Meizu M6 Mini Player, M3 Music Card
• Pixel Magic Systems' HD Mediabox (with firmware 1.3.4 or higher)
• Embedded Waveplayer- Module with FLAC level 0-2 support, MIDI and serial interface
• Teclast T29, T39, C260, C280, C290
• Trekstor Vibez
• Denon AVR-4308 & AVR-3808 AV Receiver^[8]
• T+A Music Player^[9]
• Linn Klimax DS (Digital Stream) digital music player
• Linn Akurate DS digital music player
• Linn Majik DS digital music player (available later in 2008)
• Linn Sneaky Music DS digital music player
• iriver E100^[10]

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Third-party

• Microsoft Xbox when running the third party Xbox Media Center
• iPod - 1st through 5.5th generation, iPod mini and 1st generation iPod nano (not the shuffle, 2nd/3rd gen nano, classic or touch), using third party Rockbox firmware
• Nearly all Rockbox-compatible DAPs, including the iriver and Gigabeat (Toshiba) range of devices, plus the aforementioned iPods
• Any UPnP A/V / DLNA Device - - e.g. Netgear EVA700, Netgear MP101, Roku Soundbridge or Xbox 360 (when transcoded data is streamed from applications such as TVersity, which uses ffdshow)
• Sound Devices 7-Series Professional Audio Recorders with "badger" firmware update (v.2.24)^[11]

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See also

• Comparison of audio codecs
• Meridian Lossless Packing
• Monkey's Audio
• TTA
• WavPack

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References

1. ^ Registration being sought as audio/flac
2. ^ FLAC - comparison. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
3. ^ ^{a b} FLAC Website
4. ^ FLAC - faq. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
5. ^ Supported Digital Music Formats & Tagging Requirements (PDF) p. 2. Escient. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
6. ^ Korean firmware V2.13
7. ^ Olive. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
8. ^ DENON UK. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
9. ^ T+A E-Series Music-Player. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.
10. ^ iRiver E100.
11. ^ Data Compression and Reduction Options for 7-Series Recorders. Retrieved on 2008-01-27.

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External links

• Official Website
• Comparison of lossless formats by Hans Heiden (somewhat outdated)