- Softonic Rating:
- Very good
- License:
- Free (BSD)
- Added:
- December 20, 2006
- Updated:
- September 26, 2007
- Publisher:
- Website
- File size:
- 2.62 MB
- Downloads:
- 7,344
- Download Free (BSD)
“Compress audio like never before”
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file.
FLAC is freely available and supported on most operating systems, including Windows, "unix" (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X, IRIX), BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga. There are also build systems for autotools, MSVC, Watcom C, and Project Builder.
The next generation of audio compressors is here.
Languages:
English
Recent changes in FLAC:
- Improved compression, improved cover art and multichannel support, better recovery for corrupted files, many new features and options in the command-line tools and several bug fixes.
Minimum requirements for FLAC:
- OS: Win95/98/98SE/Me/2000/NT/XP
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User Rating
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- Currently 9/10.
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- Currently 10/10.
- installation
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- Currently 10/10.
- functionality
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- Currently 10/10.
- appearance
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- Currently 8/10.


