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> Data Deposition Formats > Free Lossless Audio Codec
Free Lossless Audio Codec
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Abbreviation: FLAC
Identifiers:
Type Id
SIS ID fFLAC Copy ID to clipboardSIS ID copied
PRONOMUK National Archives fmt/279
LOCLibrary of Congress fdd000198
Media type(s):
File extension(s): .flac
Functional domains:
  • Audiovisual Source Language Data
Recommendations:
Centre Domain Level Comments
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 See more info from DANS
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
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
Version ID: 9616381