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FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. The FLAC project consists of:
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- the stream format
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- libFLAC, a library which implements a reference encoder, stream decoder,
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and file decoder
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- flac, which is a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and
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decode .flac files
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- input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the
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works)
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What FLAC is:
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- FLAC is patent free
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- FLAC is lossless
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- FLAC is designed to compress audio data
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- The compression capabilities of FLAC are extendable
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- The currently implemented compression methods in the reference encoder
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yield streams smaller than shorten
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- FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed
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- FLAC is suitable for archiving
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- FLAC is suitable for streaming
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- FLAC supports fast sample-accurate seeking
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- FLAC has an extendable metadata system
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WWW: http://flac.sourceforge.net/
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