FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. It is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality: you get a perfect copy of your CD tracks, but with files significantly smaller than .wav files or .aiff files.
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FLAC files are audio files that have been compressed, but without loss of audio data.
Better known audio file formats such as mp3 or AAC (lossy compression formats) achieve their small file sizes by removing audio data that is outside the frequencies audible to most humans.
FLAC has a compression rate of 30 to 50 per cent. Lossy compression formats can achieve compression rates of up to 80 per cent, but the higher the percentage rate, the more audio data that is lost.
At Gubemusic, our mp3s are encoded to the highest quality they can be. For some people this will be enough, as they only listen to music on their mp3 players, mobile phones or computers.
However, FLAC is the file format for the true music lover. FLAC retains 100 per cent of the audio information when taken from a CD. Which means that when you burn FLAC to CD, what you are getting is genuine CD quality audio.
More and more hifi manufacturers are adding FLAC capabilities to their equipment, and we can expect to see FLAC becoming a standard feature of audio equipment in future.
FLAC software is available for all the main operating systems: Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. There is software for playing FLAC, for burning FLAC to CD, for converting CD to FLAC, and most of it is free to download.
More information about FLAC and the software and hardware that can play it and/or burn it to CD is available at http://flac.sourceforge.net/
Comments (6)
2010-03-13Abdi Adl
Hi,,
KHODAAAEIIIIN,, SHOMA,,
ELAHI 1000 TA MESE MAN FADAYE ,, YE TARE MOOTOON BESHE.
I was in London since i was 12, but i love Iran and came back here 10years ago, and i'll wait to see that bright days togther one day soon.
I Make or Mix Video clips , just 4 fun,and keep my brain working and not going mad,now days,
Its no big deal But
I love to mix one with your fantastic music ,,ofcourse with your,Permision.
You Can always count on me like a mate ,brother, anything you want me to be.This is my Youtube Page,,I know its boring but all i want to say is ,,I want to be in the game,and i do anything to be next to great people like you 2.
www.youtube.com/user/Viktorabdi
DOOOSSSEETOON DARAAAAM,,
UN-LIMITED
CHEERSSSSS
Nafasiiiiiiiiiiiin
Abdi Adl
Skype : abdi.nafasi
FaceBook : abdi adl
Mobile : 0937 866 5010
2010-04-29jps
Issues...
- metadata and images — no comment, so what's provided?
- FLAC working with Apple devices.
ITunes can be tweaked with 3rd party software to allow FLAC's to be used, but what aboutiPhone/iPod Touch which a majority of people use. As most users want to be able to use the official non-broken services that the iPhone OS offers (such as the official App Store) so don't want to break the whole device into Rockbox?
How can FLAC be used? As other non-Apple devices are not allowed to support ALAC (Apple own the format and don't licence it), hence:
- Apple portable: ALAC, no FLAC.
- non-Apple portables: FLAC, no ALAC.
Do we have to spend more time re-converting to ALAC just for Apple portables, when we might also own non-Apple devices? Thus having to have 2 versions of everything (a FLAC and ALAC one)?
I'm new to the digital audio world, and this seems a fundamental problem missing from discussions on using FLAC as a format.
2010-05-04aka
My FLAC workflow on Mac OS X is to use Max by Stephen F. Booth to convert FLAC to MPEG-4 Audio (Apple Lossless). This means no loss of quality including for 24bit/96kHz recordings. Max allows you to easily add artwork during the conversion process. Max further has a nice option to import converted files automatically to the iTunes Library.
Once in iTunes you can use the new sync feature to convert to 128kps when syncing to iPod/iPhone devices to minimise the required storage space.
Another important FLAC tool on the Mac is Burn by Maarten Foukhar. It allows you to burn FLAC files to various types of disk media. Particularly interesting is the possibility to burn high definition audio recordings with up to 24bit/192kHz as DVD-Audio if you have player that supports this format.
2010-05-09Bugge Wesseltoft
Hi
Interesting issues here..Speaking for myself I do convert flac audio into normal aiff(works with all softwares along with waw.). Max is a great orogram too and good idea to concvert 24bit stuff via max. Specially with the artwork (metadata?)issues..
2010-07-14Totningen i Toronto
You have an informative piece on Jan Erik "the engineer" Kongshaug's own recording (!!) but I don't seem to be able to buy it (download). I guess you don't have it. Do you know where it can be purchased?
Takker og bukker...
2010-07-19bugge
Hei Totningen:) We have it right here..
https://www.gubemusic.com/album_14017
Comments (6)
2010-03-13 Abdi Adl
Hi,, KHODAAAEIIIIN,, SHOMA,, ELAHI 1000 TA MESE MAN FADAYE ,, YE TARE MOOTOON BESHE. I was in London since i was 12, but i love Iran and came back here 10years ago, and i'll wait to see that bright days togther one day soon. I Make or Mix Video clips , just 4 fun,and keep my brain working and not going mad,now days, Its no big deal But I love to mix one with your fantastic music ,,ofcourse with your,Permision. You Can always count on me like a mate ,brother, anything you want me to be.This is my Youtube Page,,I know its boring but all i want to say is ,,I want to be in the game,and i do anything to be next to great people like you 2. www.youtube.com/user/Viktorabdi DOOOSSSEETOON DARAAAAM,, UN-LIMITED CHEERSSSSS Nafasiiiiiiiiiiiin Abdi Adl Skype : abdi.nafasi FaceBook : abdi adl Mobile : 0937 866 5010
2010-04-29 jps
Issues... - metadata and images — no comment, so what's provided? - FLAC working with Apple devices. ITunes can be tweaked with 3rd party software to allow FLAC's to be used, but what aboutiPhone/iPod Touch which a majority of people use. As most users want to be able to use the official non-broken services that the iPhone OS offers (such as the official App Store) so don't want to break the whole device into Rockbox? How can FLAC be used? As other non-Apple devices are not allowed to support ALAC (Apple own the format and don't licence it), hence: - Apple portable: ALAC, no FLAC. - non-Apple portables: FLAC, no ALAC. Do we have to spend more time re-converting to ALAC just for Apple portables, when we might also own non-Apple devices? Thus having to have 2 versions of everything (a FLAC and ALAC one)? I'm new to the digital audio world, and this seems a fundamental problem missing from discussions on using FLAC as a format.
2010-05-04 aka
My FLAC workflow on Mac OS X is to use Max by Stephen F. Booth to convert FLAC to MPEG-4 Audio (Apple Lossless). This means no loss of quality including for 24bit/96kHz recordings. Max allows you to easily add artwork during the conversion process. Max further has a nice option to import converted files automatically to the iTunes Library. Once in iTunes you can use the new sync feature to convert to 128kps when syncing to iPod/iPhone devices to minimise the required storage space. Another important FLAC tool on the Mac is Burn by Maarten Foukhar. It allows you to burn FLAC files to various types of disk media. Particularly interesting is the possibility to burn high definition audio recordings with up to 24bit/192kHz as DVD-Audio if you have player that supports this format.
2010-05-09 Bugge Wesseltoft
Hi Interesting issues here..Speaking for myself I do convert flac audio into normal aiff(works with all softwares along with waw.). Max is a great orogram too and good idea to concvert 24bit stuff via max. Specially with the artwork (metadata?)issues..
2010-07-14 Totningen i Toronto
You have an informative piece on Jan Erik "the engineer" Kongshaug's own recording (!!) but I don't seem to be able to buy it (download). I guess you don't have it. Do you know where it can be purchased? Takker og bukker...
2010-07-19 bugge
Hei Totningen:) We have it right here.. https://www.gubemusic.com/album_14017