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About Free Lossless Audio Codec
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is a file format for audio data compression. FLAC is a lossless compression format and therefore it doesn't loose any information from the audio stream, as do lossy compression formats such as MP3 and AAC. The main advantage of FLAC is reduction of bandwidth and/or storage requirements.
FLAC achieves compression rates of 30–50% for most music, with significantly greater compression for voice recordings. FLAC uses linear prediction to convert the audio samples to a series of small, uncorrelated numbers, which are stored efficiently using Golomb-Rice coding. FLAC also uses run-length encoding for blocks of identical samples, such as silent passages. |
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