FLAC Audio Format

By Dan Hope

The Free Lossless Audio codec, or FLAC, is public domain. It is compressed like MP3 files, but it does not remove parts of that audio signal during compression, maintaining the quality of the recording. Usually, commercial software doesn’t support open-source formats very well, but surprisingly many media players support the FLAC audio format. It is difficult to find music in FLAC format from major music download sites, but many people who prefer it have converted music to FLAC formats. There are customizable bitrates, sample rates and channels in the FLAC format as well.

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