FLAC-1.1.0

Introduction to FLAC

FLAC is an audio CODEC similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed without throwing away any information.

Package information

FLAC dependencies

Installation of FLAC

Install FLAC by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make install

Contents

The FLAC package contains flac, metaflac, libFLAC, libFLAC++, libOggFLAC, libOggFLAC++ and libxmms-flac.

Description

flac

flac is a command-line utility for encoding, decoding and converting FLAC files.

metaflac

metaflac is a program for listing, adding, removing, or editing metadata in one or more FLAC files.

libFLAC, libFLAC++, libOggFLAC and libOggFLAC++

These libraries provide native FLAC and Ogg FLAC C/C++ APIs for programs utilizing FLAC.

libxmms-flac

libxmms-flac is a plugin for XMMS.