# Free Lossless Audio Codec

> reference software for the handling of FLAC encoded audio

**Wikidata**: [Q219848](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q219848)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/free-lossless-audio-codec


## References

1. [Source](https://xiph.org/flac/format.html)
2. [Source](https://xiph.org/flac/license.html)
3. [Source](https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=blob_plain;f=COPYING.Xiph)
4. [Source](https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=blob;f=README;h=dd5e6e7d796e6a63575c0023d6e2c0fcd87d68d5;hb=ac39d3719f16dfb6e08d2fbde8ccaf34a266c81d)
5. [SourceForge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/flac/)
6. [GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.2, November 2002](https://git.xiph.org/?p=flac.git;a=blob;f=COPYING.FDL;h=4a0fe1c8deeb9861435d0aafa0c2096a6d624d2b;hb=ac39d3719f16dfb6e08d2fbde8ccaf34a266c81d)
7. [The flac Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages Page. Open Hub](https://www.openhub.net/p/flac/analyses/latest/languages_summary)
8. [FLAC changelog](https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html)
9. [Source](https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html)
10. [FLAC 1.3.2 (01-Jan-2017)](https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html#flac_1_3_2)
11. [FLAC 1.3.3 (4-Augs-2019)](https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html#flac_1.3.3)
12. [FLAC 1.3.4 (20-Feb-2022)](https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html#flac_1.3.4)
13. [FLAC 1.4.0 released. 2022](https://xiph.org/flac/2022/09/09/flac-1-4-0-released.html)
14. [FLAC 1.4 Released With AArch64 Optimizations, Faster x86_64 FMA. 2022](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FLAC-1.4-Released)
15. [FLAC 1.4.1 released](https://xiph.org/flac/2022/09/22/flac-1-4-1-released.html)
16. [FLAC 1.4.2 released](https://xiph.org/flac/2022/10/22/flac-1-4-2-released.html)
17. [FLAC 1.4.3 Released With More Optimizations, Drops PowerPC-Specific Code. 2023](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FLAC-1.4.3)
18. [FLAC 1.5 Finally Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding. 2025](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FLAC-1.5-Released)
19. [FLAC - FLAC 1.5.0 released](https://xiph.org/flac/2025/02/11/flac-1-5-0-released.html)
20. [FLAC 1.0 (20-Jul-2001)](https://xiph.org/flac/changelog.html#flac_1_0)
21. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
22. [Source](https://xiph.org/flac/documentation_tools_flac.html)
23. [FLAC - Developers](https://xiph.org/flac/developers.html)
24. Quora
25. [Source](https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports?view=revision&revision=521645)
26. [Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc](https://caniuse.com/flac)