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Free Lossless Audio codec

What is flac file? Understanding and opening flac files

flac file icon Are you facing difficulties opening flac files on your computer, or wondering exactly what flac file is?
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Free Lossless Audio codec

Audio files compressed with the FLAC, also known as Free Lossless Audio Codec, use the flac extension. Unlike MP3s, FLAC files retain their quality during compression, although they tend to be larger in size. 

Further details

FLAC file is an audio file compressed in the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) format, which is an open source audio compression format.

It reduces the size of audio files without losing any information, providing a high quality sound. The compression is lossless, meaning that the original audio data can be perfectly reconstructed from the compressed data. FLAC files are often used where audio quality is considered more important than file size, such as in music archiving.

Playable with most modern software.

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FLAC - Free lossless audio codec

Codec for FLAC lossless audio format

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Simply put, file extensions are the characters after the dot in the computer file name, so for example document-name.pdf has file extension „pdf“. This helps Windows to identify which program should be used to open the file.

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