Install FLAC

About FLAC

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) command-line encoder and decoder.

What's new in 1.5.0

As there have been additions to the libFLAC interfaces, the libFLAC version number is incremented to 14. The libFLAC++ version number is incremented to 11. - General - Multithreaded encoding is now possible in libFLAC and through the flac command line tool - The GFDL license file is updated to version 1.3 - The markdown tool documentation is now also converted to HTML, for bundling with systems that do not read manpages (e.g. Windows) - Decoding of chained Ogg FLAC files is now possible (philippe44, Martijn van Beurden) - Various fixes (Sam James, Miroslav Lichvar, Cristian Rodríguez, manxorist, kgroeneveld, Lee Carré, Jevin Sweval, braheezy, Wolfgang Stöggl) - Is is now possible in libFLAC, libFLAC++ and metaflac to write to a new file when changing metadata, instead of needing to overwrite an existing file - flac - Testing mode (flac -t) now parses all metadata blocks and warns the user when ID3v1 metadata is detected - A warning is displayed when frame numbers do not increase correctly throughout a file - The explain option (-H or --explain) is now removed, use the manpage or html tool documentation instead - Built-in help and tool documentation are improved (H2Swine) - When re-encoding a FLAC file from an existing FLAC file, a check is added that the MD5 sums of both files are the same - libFLAC and libFLAC++ - The library interfaces have been extended. See the porting guide (part of the API documentation) - An error is sent when a frame is missing - The algorithm of the ‘loose mid side’ option has changed. Instead of checking every few frames which option is best and k...

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