FLA file extension. How to open and convert files with FLA file suffix

A fla file extension is associated with the FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec. FLAC is open-source audio format that uses lossless audio compression, meaning it does not remove any of the original audio data - compresses audio with no loss in quality.

There is one other file type using
the FLA file extension!

.fla - Editable Adobe Flash project (animation, movie, flash application) [common]

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FLA file extension - Audio files encoded by Flac - free lossless audio codec

What is fla file? How to open fla files?

File type specification:

Audio and sound file type

fla file icon:

The fla file extension is primarily used by Adobe Flash for its project files, but sometimes it can be also used for FLAC audio files.

Open-source audio format that uses lossless audio compression, meaning it does not remove any of the original audio data - compresses audio with no loss in quality.

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is 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.

See: file extension flac for more information.

Mime types:
audio/flac

Updated: March 16, 2025

The default software associated to open fla file:

VLC media player

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.

Microsoft Windows Media Player

Company or developer:
Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Windows Media Player is the default multimedia player/manager pre-installed in Microsoft Windows. WMP can manage music, videos, and pictures on a computer, play or view them, sync them with portable devices, or burn them on CD/DVD media. It also supports home media sharing with other computers. In Windows 11, you can still find it under the name Windows Media Player Legacy.

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.

VLC media player for Mac

Company or developer:
VideoLAN Project Team

VLC media player for Mac is popular multimedia player that supports variety of audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and streaming protocols.

VLC media player for Linux

Company or developer:
VideoLAN Project Team

VLC media player for Linux is multimedia player that supports variety of audio and video formats (MPG, AVI, DivX, MPEG-4, FLAC, OGG, MKV etc.) as well as DVD playback, and various streaming protocols.

Help how to open:

Use any audio player software that supports this file format. Not all player are capable to play this file by default or must have a plugin.

How to convert:

Use audio converting tools listed in our associated applications list.

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File identification strings:

HEX code: 66 4C 61 43 00 00 00 22
ASCII code: fLaC

List of software applications associated to the .fla file extension

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and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open fla file, edit fla file, convert fla file, view fla file, play fla file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

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Software that open fla file - Audio files encoded by Flac - free lossless audio codec

Programs supporting the exension fla on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open fla file action.