Files with flac extension are used for audio files compressed with the FLAC, aka Free Lossless Audio Codec. FLAC files do not lose any quality with their compression as MP3 do, but they are generally larger. Most modern media players support playback of FLAC files.
Software that open flac file
FLAC file extension - Audio files encoded by Flac - free lossless audio codec
What is flac file? How to open flac files?
File extension flac is commonly related to FLAC lossless audio format.
FLAC is open-source audio format that uses lossless audio compression - audio is compressed in FLAC format without any loss in sound quality or original data.
FLAC features:
- Lossless
- Fast
- Hardware support
- Seekable
- Streamable
- Error resistant
- no DRM
FLAC file format is freely available and supported on most operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X (macOS), Linux and mobile phones. Nowadays is defacto standard for lossless audio files.
Mime types:
audio/x-flac
Updated: November 15, 2023
The default software associated to open flac file:
Company or developer:
Microsoft Corporation
Windows 11 default media player is called Media Player. Microsoft developed it for the latest Windows 11 operating system (OS). Media Player replaces the old Windows Media Player, Windows 10 Groove Music, and Microsoft Movies & TV. It was released to all Win11 users on February 15, 2022.
FLAC - Free lossless audio codec
Company or developer:
Xiph.Org Foundation
FLAC is audio codec used to create compressed audio files. FLAC is similar to MP3, but its big advantage is, that the compression is without any loss in quality. Audio sources encoded to FLAC format are reduced to 50% - 60% of their original size. FLAC is distributed as free software.
Company or developer:
VideoLAN Project Team
Very popular multimedia player developed for Windows, Apple Mac, Linux, Unix and various other operating systems and platforms.
VLC can playback many of the video formats (AVI, MKV, OGV, WMV, ASF, MOV...) and audio formats (MP3, AAC, M4A, OGG, FLAC...) as well as support of subtitles for video. It can also be used as a streaming server and multimedia transcoder.
List of software applications associated to the .flac file extension
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Software that open flac file - Audio files encoded by Flac - free lossless audio codec
Programs supporting the exension flac on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open flac file action.