The links page is the place for all things FLAC. The <ahref="#hardware">hardware</a> section lists the home stereo, car stereo, and portable devices that support the FLAC format. The <ahref="#music">music</a> section has links to artists, labels, and legal trading/sharing sites that offer works encoded in FLAC. The <ahref="#software">software</a> section is a loosely categorized list of <ahref="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php">open-source software</a> that supports the FLAC format. Some of the most popular (some non-free) software can be found on the download page in the <ahref="download.html#extras">extras section</a>.
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Below is a list of devices that support the FLAC format. So far we only have experience with the Rio Reciever. Manufacturers, if you would like your product reviewed here, feel free to <ahref="mailto:jcoalson@users.sourceforge.net">send a unit</a>.<br/>
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<b>Home stereo:</b>
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<li><ahref="http://www.request.com/us/">AudioReQuest</a> music servers</li>
<li>Digital Techniques' "iStereo" <ahref="http://www.digitaltechniques.com/M300A_Overview.html">M300A Digital Music Player</a></li>
<li>Escient's <ahref="http://www.escient.com/">FireBall servers (E2-40/160/300, DVDM-300)</a>, networked home stereo components with hard-drives</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.hermstedt.com/english/hifidelio/hifidelio.html">Hifidelio</a>, a wireless home stereo component</li>
<li>The <ahref="http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/show_floor/product_locator/product_details.asp?prodid=5181">MS300 Music Server</a> by McIntosh Laboratory</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.phatnoise.com/products/homeplayer/index.php">PhatNoise Home Digital Media Player</a></li>
<li><ahref="http://www.mock.com/receiver/">Rio Reciever</a> and Dell Digital Audio Receiver via <ahref="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rioplay/">RioPlay</a> or <ahref="http://www.reza.net/rio/rrr.html">RRR</a> clients<br/>This little device is a hacker's dream. There are several open source clients available and since it boots its Linux distro over NFS you can write your own client. They're not made anymore but you can still find them on ebay.</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=220&cat=53">Rio Karma</a><!-- and Rio Chroma--></li>
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Several labels and artists have adopted FLAC as a distribution format for their works, offering them for sale or free download online. And many online trading communities that share legal, band-sanctioned recordings of live shows distribute them in FLAC format. These are just some of them.<br/>
A large and growing list of software supports the FLAC format. This list is a sample of <ahref="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php">open-source software</a> supporting FLAC. Some of the most popular non-free software can be found on the download page in the <ahref="download.html#extras">extras section</a>.<br/>
<li><ahref="http://entagged.sourceforge.net/">Entagged</a>, a Java audio file tagger</li>
<li><ahref="http://etree-scripts.sourceforge.net/">etree-scripts</a>: command-line tools for verifying, tagging, converting, and burning lossless audio files</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.uninformative.com/flacattack/">Flacattack</a>: an all-in-one tool that works with ExactAudioCopy to encode a CD image to FLAC, embed the cuesheet, add ReplayGain, create lossy files, etc. all in a customizable directory structure.</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">DirectShow filters</a> for encoding to/decoding from FLAC and Ogg FLAC (as well as Ogg Vorbis/Speex/Theora).</li>
<li><ahref="http://getid3.sourceforge.net/">getID3()</a>: a PHP4 script for extracting metadata</li>
<li><ahref="http://www.gstreamer.net/">GStreamer</a> streaming media framework</li>