FLAC is an audio CODEC similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed without throwing away any information.
Download (HTTP): http://flow.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/flac/flac-1.1.0.tar.gz
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated Disk space required: 33 MB
Estimated build time: 0.71 SBU
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.