We've just finished testing the
Transporter, Slim Devices' top-end networked audio player. As with the Squeezebox, FLAC support for this fantastic device is excellent; see
our review for more.
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FLAC 1.1.4 released Increased compression and dramatic speedups for both encoding and decoding are the big improvements in FLAC 1.1.4. There are also several new options and bugfixes. See the
changelog entry for complete details.
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Several new devices with FLAC support were announced at 2007 CES, including the
EVA 8000 from Netgear; the awesome-looking
Sooloos; Cowon's iAudio D2, A3, and Q5; the i-Station
Mini DX; and the
MediaREADY MC. Roxio also recently released
Record Now 9 Music Lab Premier with FLAC support.
Pixel Magic has added FLAC support to its
HD MediaBox.
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Pearl Jam is selling recordings of many of their live shows
in FLAC format.
- Two new portables support FLAC, the Meizu
M6 Miniplayer and the
Teclast TL-29.
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FLAC 1.1.3 released Almost 2 years in the making, FLAC 1.1.3 is a
major release with improved compression, improved cover art and multichannel support, better recovery for corrupted files, many new features and options in the command-line tools, and several bug fixes. For developers, the decoder and encoder APIs have also been simplified and there is a new
porting guide. See the
changelog entry for complete details. If your locale does not use "." for the decimal point,
see this note.
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Winamp 5.31 now includes Nullsoft FLAC plugins for encoding and decoding. The decoder is based on our reference decoder plugin. However the current encoder plugin is based on a pre-release of
flake and we
recommend to not use it for archival yet.
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- The new
Helios X5000 HD network media player from Neodigits supports FLAC.
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- The
Philadelphia Orchestra is making many recordings
available in FLAC.
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last updated 2007-Feb-09
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last updated 2007-Feb-13
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13-Feb-2007 :
FLAC 1.1.4 released
27-Nov-2006 :
FLAC 1.1.3 released
25-Oct-2006 :
Winamp 5.31 ships with FLAC support
20-Dec-2005 :
Volvo's Digital Jukebox plays FLAC
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+ FLAC 1.1.4 released Increased compression and dramatic speedups for both encoding and decoding are the big improvements in FLAC 1.1.4. There are also several new options and bugfixes. See the changelog entry for complete details.
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