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FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format 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. The FLAC encoder is a command line flac encoder.
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FLAC 1.5.0 (11-Feb-2025)
As there have been additions to the libFLAC interfaces, the libFLAC version number is incremented to 14. The libFLAC++ version number is incremented to 11.
General
Multithreaded encoding is now possible in libFLAC and through the flac command line tool
The GFDL license file is updated to version 1.3
The markdown tool documentation is now also converted to HTML, for bundling with systems that do not read manpages (e.g. Windows)
Decoding of chained Ogg FLAC files is now possible (philippe44, Martijn van Beurden)
Various fixes (Sam James, Miroslav Lichvar, Cristian Rodríguez, manxorist, kgroeneveld, Lee Carré, Jevin Sweval, braheezy, Wolfgang Stöggl)
Is is now possible in libFLAC, libFLAC++ and metaflac to write to a new file when changing metadata, instead of needing to overwrite an existing file
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Testing mode (flac -t) now parses all metadata blocks and warns the user when ID3v1 metadata is detected
A warning is displayed when frame numbers do not increase correctly throughout a file
The explain option (-H or --explain) is now removed, use the manpage or html tool documentation instead
Built-in help and tool documentation are improved (H2Swine)
When re-encoding a FLAC file from an existing FLAC file, a check is added that the MD5 sums of both files are the same
libFLAC and libFLAC++
The library interfaces have been extended. See the porting guide (part of the API documentation)
An error is sent when a frame is missing
The algorithm of the 'loose mid side' option has changed. Instead of checking every few frames which option is best and keeping that for the next few frames, a fast heuristic is now used. This was necessary to enable multithreading
Most level 0 metadata interface functions now also work with Ogg FLAC files
When encoding Ogg FLAC files, the callback now returns a number of samples instead of always 0 (Jesper Larsson, ziplantil)
When changing metadata, libFLAC now detects when an input file is a symlink, and will refuse to write data to it when an in-place rewrite of the metadata cannot happen
When encoding using seektable templates, unused seekpoints (with a sample number higher than the total number of samples) are converted to placeholders
Build system
Fix building on Android with API version < 24 (Steve Lhomme)
The microbench utility has been removed
Enable building with emscripten (werner mendizabal)
Minimum CMake version required (when building with CMake) is now formally 3.12
Testing/validation
Improve fuzzing of allocation failures
Various other fuzzing improvements
Documentation
The FLAC format is now specified in RFC 9639
The foreign metadata storage format used by the flac command line tool is now properly documented
As there have been additions to the libFLAC interfaces, the libFLAC version number is incremented to 14. The libFLAC++ version number is incremented to 11.
General
Multithreaded encoding is now possible in libFLAC and through the flac command line tool
The GFDL license file is updated to version 1.3
The markdown tool documentation is now also converted to HTML, for bundling with systems that do not read manpages (e.g. Windows)
Decoding of chained Ogg FLAC files is now possible (philippe44, Martijn van Beurden)
Various fixes (Sam James, Miroslav Lichvar, Cristian Rodríguez, manxorist, kgroeneveld, Lee Carré, Jevin Sweval, braheezy, Wolfgang Stöggl)
Is is now possible in libFLAC, libFLAC++ and metaflac to write to a new file when changing metadata, instead of needing to overwrite an existing file
flac
Testing mode (flac -t) now parses all metadata blocks and warns the user when ID3v1 metadata is detected
A warning is displayed when frame numbers do not increase correctly throughout a file
The explain option (-H or --explain) is now removed, use the manpage or html tool documentation instead
Built-in help and tool documentation are improved (H2Swine)
When re-encoding a FLAC file from an existing FLAC file, a check is added that the MD5 sums of both files are the same
libFLAC and libFLAC++
The library interfaces have been extended. See the porting guide (part of the API documentation)
An error is sent when a frame is missing
The algorithm of the 'loose mid side' option has changed. Instead of checking every few frames which option is best and keeping that for the next few frames, a fast heuristic is now used. This was necessary to enable multithreading
Most level 0 metadata interface functions now also work with Ogg FLAC files
When encoding Ogg FLAC files, the callback now returns a number of samples instead of always 0 (Jesper Larsson, ziplantil)
When changing metadata, libFLAC now detects when an input file is a symlink, and will refuse to write data to it when an in-place rewrite of the metadata cannot happen
When encoding using seektable templates, unused seekpoints (with a sample number higher than the total number of samples) are converted to placeholders
Build system
Fix building on Android with API version < 24 (Steve Lhomme)
The microbench utility has been removed
Enable building with emscripten (werner mendizabal)
Minimum CMake version required (when building with CMake) is now formally 3.12
Testing/validation
Improve fuzzing of allocation failures
Various other fuzzing improvements
Documentation
The FLAC format is now specified in RFC 9639
The foreign metadata storage format used by the flac command line tool is now properly documented
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Rating by AxelR8 on
Mar 17, 2021 Version: 1.3.3
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
The best lossless codec, period!
Review by Dr. TaaDow on
Oct 22, 2017 Version: 1.3.2
OS: Windows 10 64-bit Ease of use: 10/10
Functionality: 10/10
Value for money: 10/10
Overall: 10/10
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