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Josh Coalsone53358b2002-07-02 22:23:21 +000082 <P>FLAC goes hardware! <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/">Phatnoise</A> has become the first commercial hardware platform to support FLAC. Firmware is now available for the PhatBox player or Kenwood Music Keg to play FLAC files, and FLAC encoding and playback is supported in the Phatnoise Music Manager software; see <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=74">here</A> for more info.</P>
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Josh Coalsonb00a0ce2001-07-18 23:48:32 +000084 <P>If you use FLAC and have suggestions or patches, please <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=13478">join the mailing list</A> or <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/project/memberlist.php?group_id=13478">developers group</A>. Bugs can be filed <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=addbug&group_id=13478">here</A>.</P>
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Josh Coalson26560dd2001-02-08 00:38:41 +0000105 FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. The FLAC project consists of:
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Josh Coalsonb25a9bf2002-06-13 05:34:01 +0000110 <LI><B><TT>libFLAC</TT></B>, a library of reference encoders and decoders, and a metadata interface</LI>
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Josh Coalsonbbbdba72001-04-03 19:37:58 +0000112 <LI><B><TT>flac</TT></B>, a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode .flac files</LI>
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Josh Coalsonb25a9bf2002-06-13 05:34:01 +0000117 "Free" means that the specification of the stream format is in the public domain (the FLAC project reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any patent. It also means that the sources for <B><TT>libFLAC</TT></B> and <B><TT>libFLAC++</TT></B> are available under the <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html">LGPL</A> and the sources for <B><TT>flac</TT></B> and the plugins are available under the <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html">GPL</A>.
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Josh Coalson8b03a7f2002-02-17 22:20:12 +0000120 FLAC compiles on many platforms: most Unixes (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X), Windows, BeOS, and OS/2. There are build systems for autoconf/automake, MSVC, Watcom C, and Project Builder.
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Josh Coalsonbb7f6b92000-12-10 04:09:52 +0000123 See the <A HREF="features.html">features page</A>, <A HREF="documentation.html">documentation page</A>, or <A HREF="format.html">FLAC format page</A> for more info, the <A HREF="comparison.html">comparison page</A> to see how the reference encoder measures up, or the <A HREF="goals.html">goals page</A> for what the FLAC project hopes to achieve.
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Josh Coalson12da95c2002-02-19 00:01:42 +0000219 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20020213">13-Feb-2002</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;FLAC goes hardware<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson457f4672001-12-04 02:21:36 +0000220 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20011203">03-Dec-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Version 1.0.2 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson33c7a842001-11-15 19:20:27 +0000221 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20011114">14-Nov-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Version 1.0.1 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonb00a0ce2001-07-18 23:48:32 +0000222 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20010720">20-Jul-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;FLAC 1.0 is here!<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson4c4aed92001-06-05 23:34:38 +0000223 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20010607">06-Jun-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Version 0.10 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonc8c0fa72001-03-30 23:53:04 +0000224 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20010331">31-Mar-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Version 0.9 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson2ed703b2001-03-05 19:51:42 +0000225 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20010305">05-Mar-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Version 0.8 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson4bbb2022001-02-12 09:09:41 +0000226 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20010212">12-Feb-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Version 0.7 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonc4dce652001-01-26 21:39:25 +0000227 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20010128">28-Jan-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;FLAC gets FASTER for version 0.6<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsoncab3c0a2001-01-16 07:08:13 +0000228 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20010115">15-Jan-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;FLAC goes beta with version 0.5<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson4f822bd2000-12-22 22:48:17 +0000229 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20001223">23-Dec-2000</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Version 0.4 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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Josh Coalson12da95c2002-02-19 00:01:42 +0000250 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><B>Hardware supporting FLAC:</B><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
251 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/">Phatnoise</A> car audio system: <A HREF="http://phatbox.sixpak.org/">Phatbox + FLAC</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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Josh Coalsonf391e7d2002-06-05 05:51:39 +0000253 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.bagu.dhs.org/flac.html">Patch</A> for <A HREF="http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/">abcde</A> (A Better CD Encoder)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson93c22c92002-04-25 05:36:33 +0000254 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://easytag.sourceforge.net/">EasyTAG</A> versatile tagger<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonec246772001-08-14 18:04:06 +0000255 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/flac.htm">FLAC frontend</A> (Windows GUI)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson512bdf92001-12-13 05:44:34 +0000256 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://flac-tools.sourceforge.net/">flac-tools</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonfd16e772001-06-29 23:12:50 +0000257 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.gstreamer.net/">GStreamer</A> streaming media framework<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonae842122002-01-29 04:27:46 +0000258 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://mediaxw.sourceforge.net/">MediaXW</A> includes FLAC DirectShow filter<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonf84474c2001-06-08 20:56:20 +0000259 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://rawrec.sourceforge.net/">rawrec/rawplay</A> recording/playback tools<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonbf142792002-02-01 05:49:45 +0000260 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://rip.sourceforge.net/">rip</A> command-line ripper/encoder<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonabeb4592002-01-26 17:06:05 +0000261 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.icculus.org/SDL_sound/">SDL_sound</A> audio add-on to SDL<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson15c67ca2002-02-18 06:37:28 +0000262 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://shnutils.etree.org/shntool/">shntool</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonaaaafb32001-06-21 06:34:32 +0000263 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.lammerts.org/software/soepkiptng/">Soepkip TNG</A> music playing daemon + web interface<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonf04466e2001-12-15 18:42:24 +0000264 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.cyclooctane.com/sonice/">sonice</A> FLAC to Vorbis transcoder<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsone73a51c2001-05-02 00:26:51 +0000265 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.lameb.fsnet.co.uk/">Split_wav</A> WAV+CUE splitter<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson1ac83212002-06-19 04:45:14 +0000266 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/html/tag.html">Tag</A> comprehensive tagger (<A HREF="http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/tag.htm">frontend</A> available)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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Josh Coalson07afedc2001-08-16 17:58:23 +0000271 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</A> Cross-Platform Audio Editor<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson419e6592001-06-18 02:32:03 +0000272 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://smurf.sourceforge.net/">Smurf</A> Sound Font Editor<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalsonc9b552a2002-03-17 08:54:53 +0000273 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.rm-r.net/~meff/otto2/">otto2</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson419e6592001-06-18 02:32:03 +0000274 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://cdwave.com/">CD Wave</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
Josh Coalson47091de2001-02-02 21:31:14 +0000275etree.org?
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Josh Coalson0cf511c2002-02-05 23:47:49 +0000277<!-- not open source yet...
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