Free Lossless Audio Codec
Abbreviation: FLAC
Identifiers:
Type | Id | |
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SIS ID | fFLAC | Copy ID to clipboardSIS ID copied |
PRONOMUK National Archives | fmt/279 | |
LOCLibrary of Congress | fdd000198 |
Media type(s):
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audio/flac
File extension(s): .flac
Functional domains:
- Audiovisual Source Language Data
Recommendations:
Centre | Domain | Level | Comments |
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ACDH-ARCHE | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
CLARIN-DK-UCPH | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
CLARIN.SI | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
COCOON | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
DANS | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended |
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FIN-CLARIN | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable | |
IDS | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable | |
MI | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
ORTOLANG | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | recommended | |
OTA | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable | |
PORTULAN-CLARIN | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable | |
Sprakbanken | Audiovisual Source Language DataAudio or video recordings providing spoken/multimodal or signed language data for research purposes. | acceptable |
Description:
FLAC (/flæk/; Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, developed by the Xiph.Org Foundation, and is also the name of the free software project producing the FLAC tools, the reference software package that includes a codec implementation. Digital audio compressed by FLAC's algorithm can typically be reduced to between 50 and 70 percent of its original size[4] and decompress to an identical copy of the original audio data. FLAC is an open format with royalty-free licensing and a reference implementation which is free software. FLAC has support for metadata tagging, album cover art, and fast seeking. See: Wikipedia article for FLAC.
Keywords: speech data, audio file format, lossless