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FLAC-1.1.0

Introduction to FLAC

FLAC is an audio CODEC similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed without throwing away any information.

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Install FLAC by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make &&
make install

The FLAC package contains flac, metaflac, libFLAC, libFLAC++, libOggFLAC, libOggFLAC++ and libxmms-flac.

flac is a command-line utility for encoding, decoding and converting FLAC files.

metaflac is a program for listing, adding, removing, or editing metadata in one or more FLAC files.

These libraries provide native FLAC and Ogg FLAC C/C++ APIs for programs utilizing FLAC.

libxmms-flac is a plugin for XMMS.