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- FLAC is open to third-party developers who want to add support for FLAC into their programs. All the necessary functionality is contained the libraries libFLAC or libFLAC++ which are licensed under the LGPL. The relevant documentation here is: + FLAC is open to third-party developers who want to add support for FLAC into their programs. All the necessary functionality is contained the libraries libFLAC or libFLAC++ which are licensed under Xiph.Org's BSD license. The relevant documentation here is:
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- All source code and binaries are distributed under open-source licenses. The libraries are distributed under the LGPL, and the plugins and command-line utilites (flac and metaflac) are distributed under the GPL. If you would like to redistribute parts or all of FLAC under different terms, contact me. + All source code and binaries are distributed under open-source licenses. The codec libraries are distributed under Xiph.Org's BSD license, and the plugins and command-line utilites (flac and metaflac) are distributed under the GPL. If you would like to redistribute parts or all of FLAC under different terms, contact me. Releases are first made through SourceForge and can be found here. For each version there is a source release and binary releases for Linux, Windows, Solaris, and Darwin (includes OS X). Winamp 3 note: the FLAC plugin for Winamp 3 is currently broken but you may have luck getting the version on RareWares to work. diff --git a/doc/html/format.html b/doc/html/format.html index 3c6361ed..012ebe85 100644 --- a/doc/html/format.html +++ b/doc/html/format.html @@ -782,7 +782,7 @@ <12*8> |
- Track ISRC. This is a 12-digit alphanumeric code; see here and here. A value of 12 ASCII NUL characters may be used to denote absence of an ISRC. + Track ISRC. This is a 12-digit alphanumeric code; see here and here. A value of 12 ASCII NUL characters may be used to denote absence of an ISRC. |
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- FLAC 1.1.0 is out. New features include ReplayGain and cue sheet support, improved 24-bit compression, and tag editing in the plugins. See here for the full list. -Note that the minor version has incremented, meaning forward compatibility was broken (forward compatibility means an earlier decoder can play all streams made by a later decoder). This is only because of a bug in 1.0.4 and prior where the decoder could not properly skip unknown metadata. The stream format itself has not changed and FLAC is still fully backward-compatible. All it means is that a FLAC file containing cue sheet metadata will not decode in older decoders. This bug is fixed in 1.1.0. -Attention AudioTron users: Bery Rinaldo has released his Samba File Extension Mapping VFS Module that allows FLAC files to be played on the AudioTron. +Just in: livephish.com is now offering recordings in FLAC format in addition to MP3. +Neuros: Neuros and Xiph.org are collaborating to bring Vorbis support to Neuros Digital Audio Computers. Now that FLAC is part of Xiph, Neuros is considering FLAC support. You can follow some of the Vorbis and FLAC discussions here and here. +FLAC has joined the Xiph project; see here for the press release. +Xiph.org is behind other free codecs such as Vorbis, Theora, and Speex. Our merger with Xiph will bring FLAC into the ranks and lead to better integration with the Ogg multimedia framework. +Note that the FLAC format is not changing, native FLAC will continue to exist, and the command-line tools and plugins will continue to work as before. The codec libraries will now be available under Xiph's BSD-like license. + +--> +last updated 2003-Jun-23 |
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| 29-Jan-2003 : FLAC joins Xiph.org! |
| 26-Jan-2003 : Version 1.1.0 released |
| 24-Sep-2002 : Version 1.0.4 released |
| 22-Aug-2002 : FLAC support for Rio Receiver |
| SourceForge project page |
| Freshmeat page |
| Hardware supporting FLAC: |
| AudioReQuest music servers |
| PhatNoise car audio system: Phatbox + FLAC |
| Rio Reciever and Dell Digital Audio Receiver via RioPlay client |
| Turtle Beach's AudioTron via Bery Rinaldo's Samba VFS Module |
| Software supporting FLAC: |
| abcde (A Better CD Encoder) |
| AlsaPlayer |
| Arson: KDE ripper/burner |
| Boss Ogg: Audio client/server |
| Cooledit FLAC filter (source code here) |
| EasyTAG versatile tagger |
| FLAC frontend (Windows GUI) |
| flac-tools |
| getID3(): a PHP4 script for extracting metadata |
| GStreamer streaming media framework |
| HASAS HydroAcoustical Signal Analysis System |
| J-Ogg Java libraries for Ogg decoding |
| sonice FLAC to Vorbis transcoder |
| Split_wav WAV+CUE splitter |
| Tag comprehensive tagger (frontend available) |
| VideoLAN client |
| Xine multimedia player |
| XMMS: X MultiMedia System |