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The links page is the place for all things using or supporting FLAC. | hardware | artists, labels and stores | publications | software |

Below are some brands that offer devices supporting the FLAC format.

general home audio car audio portable audio live audio

Several labels, artists and streaming services have adopted FLAC as a distribution format. Also, many online trading communities that share legal, band-sanctioned recordings of live shows distribute them in FLAC format. These are just some of them.

streaming services
Individual artists

• The Beatles
• Bruce Springsteen
• Metallica
• My Bloody Valentine
• My Morning Jacket
• Nine Inch Nails
• Phish
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Snarky Puppy
• They Might Be Giants
• Umphrey's McGee
• Widespread Panic

Labels and Stores

• 2L - the Nordic Sound
• 4AD
• 7digital
• 7K!
• Anjundabeats
• ATO Records
• Bandcamp
• Bella Union
• Bleep
• Bugs!
• boomkat
• burning shed
• Dirty Hit
• eClassical
• Ed Banger records
• elektrocd
• genie
• Good Old Games
• harmonia mundi
• HDtracks
• Heavenly Recordings
• HiFitrack
• highresaudio
• Hyperion records
• indieHD
• Juno Download
• Linn Records
• Magnatune
• Matador Records Store
• Melon
• Merge Records
• Mexican Summer
• mora.jp
• MunckMusic
• Nonesuch records
• nugs.net
• nyctaper
• Partisan Records
• [PIAS]
• prestomusic
• Pristine Classical
• ProStudioMasters
• RareNoiseRecords
• レコチョク (Recochoku)
• Records on Ribs
• Rough Trade Store
• Sound Liaison
• Supraphonline.cz
• WARP
• XL Recordings
• Zunior.com

Communities:

• archive.org, the Internet Archive:
  • Live Music Archive
  • Net Labels
  • Open Source Audio
• etree.org
• freesound.org
• ccmixter.org
• Soundcloud

• YouTube video series on FLAC
• FLAC in the archives and Derailing Best Practices
• Reconsidering the Checksum for Audiovisual Preservation
• Homomorphic encryption for the FLAC format
• Breaking WAVEs (and some FLACs)
• FLAC format preservation assessment

Although being designed to contain audio, FLAC can compress other kinds of signals very well too, like measurement signals. In some scientific publications/presentations, FLAC is used to contain such signals, such as:

• South Pole Telescope:
  • The Design and Integrated Performance of SPT-3G
  • Extreme digitisation for ground-based cosmic microwave background experiments
• Context-Aware Lossless and Lossy Compression of Radio Frequency Signals
• Compressing raw video tape data with FLAC

A large and growing list of software supports the FLAC format. This list is a sample of software supporting FLAC. The most popular software can be found on the download page in the extras section as well.

Audio encoders/decoders/converters/taggers:

• Free Audio Converter
• mp3tag
• Picard
• foobar2000
• EasyTAG
• etree-scripts
• FLAC frontend
• Flac-Jacket
• FLACTAG
• MP3FS
• XLD
• CUETools

Audio editors:

• Ableton Live
• Adobe Audition (plugin for old versions here or here)
• Ardour
• Audacity
• FL Studio
• Magix Acid, Music Maker, Samplitude and Sound Forge
• Reaper
• Steinberg Cubase, Nuendo and Wavelab
• shntool

Audio players/servers:

• Amarok
• aTunes
• Clementine
• DisOrder
• flac123
• gerbera
• JRiver Media Center
• kodi
• MPD
• MPlayer
• MythTV
• Rygel
• Serviio
• VideoLAN client (VLC)
• Xine
• xmcd
• XMMS

CD ripping/burning:

• abcde
• CDex
• Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
• Free Audio Converter
• grip
• K3B
• VortexBox
• XLD

Organizers:

• foobar2000
• Ampache
• aTunes
• GNUpod
• netjukebox
• prokyon3
• Rhythmbox

Developer tools and libraries:

• A list of FLAC encoder and decoder libraries, library wrappers and analysis tools
• A set of FLAC conformance test files, to test FLAC decoder implementations
• FLAC perl modules
• getID3(): a PHP script for extracting metadata
• Jaudiotagger Java audio tagging library
• GStreamer streaming media framework
• SDL_sound audio add-on to SDL