subject: FLACK - Play, Pack, quality not touch! [print this page] FLAC is short and clear, Free Losless Audio Codec - audio format similar to MP3, but lossless (meaning no loss of quality records - therefore, no removal of silent parts of tracks, and FLAC record is identical to that recorded on CD). It works like ZIP and RAR-in, with little difference as FLAC is always given much better compression because his compression algorithms are optimized for audio files. Currently, almost all media players support FLAC as well as MP3 files. Apple's products, mention it, do not support this format due to Nazi policies novokomponiranoj genius of Steve Jobs
Digital audio (as, for example, a music CD) gave a FLAC-om optimally compress to half the original size. Recorded a voice file, the result is even better. Of course, lossy codecs such as the popular MP3 compression achieved up to 80%, but - at the expense of quality records. Therefore, FLAC is often used as a tool for archiving music CDs - if you destroy the original medium, the copy stored in FLAC files is an exact copy, suitable for playback or transcoding to MP3 format.
How do we live in an age of big, cheap disks and broadband, this is the format - after ten years - finally came to her. Yes, for a decade, the development of his runs since 2000. when it was created Josh Coalson. Xiph.org him in January 2003. aligned itself with its own codecs like Vorbis, Speex and Theor.
What makes it convenient for everyday use are supported: Tag, a quick search and cover art to be easily pushed in ani-FLAC album. In addition, FLAC is open source software, free for commercial and non-commercial use under the GPL.
Of course, anyone who wants to distribute FLAC under their rules, you should contact Josh Coalsonu.
FLAC is extremely popular in all unix, Windows, and - to a lesser extent - on a Mac. Interestingly, for all these the most popular OS and a handful of cross-platform solutions for encoding, decoding and encoding. And not just for them: flac packages can be installed on the IRIX, Solaris 2.7, Windows CE, and be careful now, amigo! Thank God for the freak of all professions (studio musicians, perfectionist), offers plenty of tools and the command relationship with an application that - at least apparently - dramatically accelerates the production of digital notes.
