What is FLAC? FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an
audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is
compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar
to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better
compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and
you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player
(or your car or home stereo, see supported devices ) just like
you would an MP3 file. For more details, see What is FLAC? I
have a FLAC file, how do I play it? How can I create FLAC files?
See Using FLAC What licensing applies to the FLAC format and
software? See the license page What kinds of tags does FLAC
support? FLAC has it's own native tagging system which is
identical to that of Vorbis. They are called alternately "FLAC
tags" and "Vorbis comments". It is the only tagging system
required and guaranteed to be supported by FLAC implementations.
Out of convenience, the reference decoder knows how to skip ID3
tags so that they don't inter