About FLAC
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a very popular lossless, open source audio encoder and decoder.
FLAC encoded files are usually 50-60% smaller than the source files, which is a good result considering that lossless compression is used.
FLAC encoded files usually have the .flac extension. Sometimes you can also find Ogg-FLAC files – audio files with the FLAC audio stream embedded in the Ogg container and with the .ogg extension.
Download
Both ZIP archives contain two executables: flac.exe (FLAC encoder/decoder), metaflac.exe (metadata editor).
Basic usage
Encode WAV file to FLAC using default compression level (5):flac file.wav -o output_file.flac
Encode WAV file to FLAC using maximum compression level (8):flac -8 file.wav -o output_file.flac
orflac --best file.wav -o output_file.flac
Creating Ogg-FLAC file (FLAC audio stream in the Ogg container):flac --ogg file.wav -o output_file.ogg
Decode FLAC file:flac -d file.flac -o output_file.wav
Compilation info
Cross-compiled on Xubuntu 20.04
SSE optimizations: yes
ASM optimizations: yes
Ogg/FLAC support: yes
GCC version: 10.1.0
jp, 2020.08.08
Links
- FLAC home page: https://xiph.org/flac/
- Source: https://github.com/xiph/flac/releases/tag/1.3.3
- FLAC on GitHub: https://github.com/xiph/flac
- FAQ: https://xiph.org/flac/faq.html
- Documentation: https://xiph.org/flac/documentation.html
- License: https://xiph.org/flac/license.html
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC