FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec

Format introduction:

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio, and is also the name of the reference codec implementation. Digital audio compressed by FLAC's algorithm can typically be reduced to 50-60% of its original size and decompress to an identical copy of the original audio data.

Technical details:

The technical strengths of FLAC compared to other lossless formats lie in its ability to be streamed and decoded quickly, independent of compression level. In a comparison of compressed audio formats, FFmpeg's FLAC implementation was noted to have the fastest and most efficient embedded decoder of any modern lossless audio format.

 

File extension	.flac
MIME	audio/x-flac
Developed by	Xiph.Org Foundation
Type of format	Audio
Associated programs	Windows 10, Android, Blackberry 10 and Jolla devices.
Sample file	sample.flac
Wiki	FLAC on Wikipedia