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These are little micro chips placed in all devices you listen to digital music on. This is where Digital Analog Converters (DAC) come in to play. While Flac is great uncompressed digital source, you still need to convert it back to Analog for a good listening experience.

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the way Apple encrypts AAC in MP4 with FairPlay), that is the choice of the user.įor an in-depth, detailed understanding of High-Definition Audio, check out this great resource from our friends at Beyond Amplified. Of course, we can’t stop someone from encrypting a FLAC stream in another container (e.g. There is no intention to add any copy prevention methods. FLAC is intended for lossless compression only, as there are many good lossy formats already, such as Vorbis, MPC, and MP3 (see LAME for an excellent open-source implementation). Contrast this with some other lossless codecs, in which a single error destroys the remainder of the stream.

Error resistant: Because of FLAC’s framing, stream errors limit the damage to the frame in which the error occurred, typically a small fraction of a second worth of data.

If your original CD is damaged, the cue sheet can be exported later in order to burn an exact copy. For instance, you can rip a CD to a single file, then import the CD’s extracted cue sheet while encoding to yield a single file representation of the entire CD.

Convenient CD archiving: FLAC has a “cue sheet” metadata block for storing a CD table of contents and all track and index points.

In addition to the frame CRCs and MD5 signature, flac has a verify option that decodes the encoded stream in parallel with the encoding process and compares the result to the original, aborting with an error if there is a mismatch.

Suitable for archiving: FLAC is an open format, and there is no generation loss if you need to convert your data to another format in the future.

FLAC uses sync codes and CRCs (similar to MPEG and other formats), which, along with framing, allow decoders to pick up in the middle of a stream with a minimum of delay. FLAC does not even rely on previous or following frames.

Streamable: Each FLAC frame contains enough data to decode that frame.

Not only is this useful for playback, it makes FLAC files suitable for use in editing applications.

Seekable: FLAC supports fast sample-accurate seeking.

New metadata blocks can be defined and implemented in future versions of FLAC without breaking older streams or decoders. Applications can write their own APPLICATION metadata once they register an ID.

Flexible metadata: FLAC’s metadata system supports tags, cover art, seek tables, and cue sheets.

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Hardware support: FLAC is supported by dozens of consumer electronic devices, from portable players, to home stereo equipment, to car stereo.

Real-time decode performance is easily achievable on even modest hardware. Decoding requires only integer arithmetic, and is much less compute-intensive than for most perceptual codecs.

Fast: FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed.

The integrity of the audio data is further insured by storing an MD5 signature of the original unencoded audio data in the file header, which can be compared against later during decoding or testing. Each frame contains a 16-bit CRC of the frame data for detecting transmission errors.

Lossless: The encoding of audio (PCM) data incurs no loss of information, and the decoded audio is bit-for-bit identical to what went into the encoder.

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(For more information, see the license page.) It is the first truly open and free lossless audio format.

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It also means that all the source code is available under open-source licenses. It means that the specification of the format is fully open to the public to be used for any purpose (the FLAC project 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 known patent. When we say that FLAC is “Free” it means more than just that it is available at no cost.

See Getting FLAC for instructions on downloading and installing the official FLAC tools, or Using FLAC for instructions and guides on playing FLAC files, ripping CDs to FLAC, etc. There are many programs and devices that support FLAC, but the core FLAC project maintains the format and provides programs and librariesfor working with FLAC files. FLAC is freely available and supported on most operating systems, including Windows, “unix” (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X, IRIX), BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga. FLAC supports tagging, cover art, and fast seeking.

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