- This page describes the user-level view of the FLAC format (for a more detailed explanation see the format page). It also contains the user documentation for flac, which is the command-line file encoder/decoder, and the input plugins.
+ This page describes the user-level view of the FLAC format (for a more detailed explanation see the format page). It also contains the user documentation for flac, which is the command-line file encoder/decoder, metaflac, the FLAC metadata editor, and the input plugins.
Keep in mind that the online version of this document will always apply to the latest release. For older releases, check the documentation included with the release package.
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- In either case, inputfile may be "-" for stdin, and the outputfile "-" for stdout. The encoding options affect the compression ratio and encoding speed. The format options are used to tell flac the arrangement of samples if the input file (or output file when decoding) is a raw file. If it is a RIFF WAVE file the format options are not needed since they are read from the WAVE header.
+ In either case, inputfile may be "-" for stdin, and the outputfile "-" for stdout. The encoding options affect the compression ratio and encoding speed. The format options are used to tell flac the arrangement of samples if the input file (or output file when decoding) is a raw file. If it is a RIFF WAVE file the format options are not needed since they are read from the WAVE header.
In test mode, flac acts just like in decode mode, except no output file is written. Both decode and test modes detect errors in the stream, but they also detect when the MD5 signature of the decoded audio does not match the stored MD5 signature, even when the bitstream is valid.
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