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52 Many different programs support FLAC. If you are not sure what to download, see
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54 This section is for the
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61 <li><a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&package_id=12676">FLAC for Fedora Core
4</a></li>
62 <li><a href=
"http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=flac&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all">FLAC
1.x Debian packages
</a></li>
63 <li>RPMs can be found on
<a href=
"http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/soundapps.html">Planet CCRMA
</a> and
<a href=
"http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=flac">rpmfind.net
</a></li>
69 <li><!-- <a href="http://www.danrules.com/macflac/"><a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15883"> --><a href=
"http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/MacFLAC.shtml">MacFLAC with installer and GUI front-end
</a> (source code not available)
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70 <li><a href=
"http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16458">FLACer
</a> (source code not available)
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71 <li><a href=
"http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21952">xACT with installer and GUI front-end
</a> (source code included)
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72 <li><a href=
"http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/flac">FLAC Fink package
</a> for use with
<a href=
"http://fink.sourceforge.net/">Fink
</a></li>
73 <li><a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&package_id=32318">FLAC tools for OS X
</a>. The .dmg file is an installer and the .tar.gz file is a tarball.
</li>
79 <!-- <li><a href="http://cyberial.com/flacinstaller.asp">FLAC for Windows with installer</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/flac/flac113b.exe?use_mirror=superb-west">alternate link</a>) <b>NOTE FOR VISTA USERS:</b> if the installer is getting stuck, try <a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=52353">this workaround</a></li> -->
80 <li><a href=
"http://downloads.sourceforge.net/flac/flac-1.2.1a.exe">FLAC for Windows with installer
</a> (If this does not work, download
<tt>flac-
1.2.1a.exe
</tt> from
<a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&package_id=12675">here
</a>)
<b>NOTE FOR VISTA USERS:
</b> if the installer is getting stuck, try
<a href=
"http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=52353">this workaround
</a></li>
81 <li><a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&package_id=12675">FLAC for Windows (command-line tools only)
</a></li>
87 <li><a href=
"http://amiga.sourceforge.net/">FLAC package for Amiga
</a></li>
88 <li><a href=
"http://freeware.sgi.com/">FLAC packages for IRIX
</a>.
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89 <li><a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&package_id=12841">FLAC for Solaris
2.7</a></li>
90 <li>Unofficial port of the
<a href=
"http://arisme.free.fr/ports/flac.php">FLAC libraries to Windows CE (WinCE)
</a></li>
96 <li><a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&package_id=12677">FLAC full source code
</a>; also includes documentation and build systems for Windows (MSVC++) and *nix,*BSD,OS/
2,OS X (autotools)
</li>
97 <li><a href=
"http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/flac-cvsroot.tar.bz2">Nightly CVS tarball
</a>; this is the actual CVS repository used for development
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101 <b>Older versions
</b>
103 <li><a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478">Older versions of FLAC
</a> available from SourceForge
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119 <b>NOTE:
</b> these extras are not part of the FLAC project. Most (except those marked [$]) are freely available but distributed under their authors' own terms.
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121 <b>NOTE:
</b> make sure to check out the
<a href=
"links.html">links page
</a> for a large list of open-source software supporting FLAC.
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123 <a name=
"extras_gui"><b>GUI encoding/decoding front-ends:
</b></a>
126 <a name=
"extras_gui_windows"><b>Windows
</b></a>
128 <li><a href=
"http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=Open_Source&file=index&page=software&app=autoflac">AutoFLAC
</a> for automated ripping and encoding to FLAC with EAC (ExactAudioCopy); also has a write mode for burning back to CD for an exact copy
</li>
129 <li><a href=
"http://www.dbpoweramp.com/">dBpowerAMP
</a>, a swiss army knife that can convert and play many formats, including FLAC.
</li>
130 <li><a href=
"http://www.uninformative.com/flacattack/">Flacattack
</a>: an all-in-one tool that works with ExactAudioCopy to encode a CD image to FLAC, embed the cuesheet, add ReplayGain, create lossy files, etc. all in a customizable directory structure.
</li>
131 <li><a href=
"http://www.rarewares.org/lossless.html">FLACdrop
</a>, an Oggdrop-like frontend for Windows.
</li>
132 <li><a href=
"http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm">FLAC frontend
</a>, a Windows GUI, or the even more versatile
<a href=
"http://members.home.nl/w.speek/multi.htm">Multi frontend
</a>.
</li>
133 <li><a href=
"http://www.vuplayer.com/other.htm">FLACTester
</a>, can test a whole tree of FLAC files for errors and generate a report.
</li>
134 <li><a href=
"http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/">Frontah
</a>, a new frontend to many codecs, including FLAC. Still in beta but has good reviews.
</li>
135 <li><a href=
"http://www.germanixsoft.de/">GX::Transcoder
</a></li>
136 <li><a href=
"http://mareo.netfirms.com/">MAREO
</a> is a
"virtual" encoder that can be used with ExactAudioCopy to encode to multiple formats (including FLAC) at once while ripping.
</li>
137 <li><a href=
"http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/">MediaCoder
</a> converts between many audio and video formats.
</li>
138 <li><a href=
"http://www.mediamonkey.com">MediaMonkey
</a> can organize, encode, decode, edit tags, and rip to FLAC and other formats.
</li>
139 <li><a href=
"http://music.yahoo.com/musicengine/">Yahoo! Music Engine
</a></li>
143 <a name=
"extras_gui_osx"><b>Mac OS X
</b></a>
145 <li><a href=
"http://www.lexial.ca/alex/applescripts/iTunes_to_flac.html">iTunes-to-FLAC
</a>, an AppleScript for converting between FLAC and WAVE/AIFF with tagging via iTunes.
</li>
146 <li><!-- <a href="http://www.danrules.com/macflac/"><a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15883"> --><a href=
"http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/MacFLAC.shtml">MacFLAC
</a>, a FLAC distribution which also includes nice graphical front-end.
</li>
147 <li><a href=
"http://sbooth.org/Max/">Max
</a>, a CD ripper and encoder that supports several formats including FLAC.
</li>
148 <li><a href=
"http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MediaRage.html">MediaRage
</a>, for editing FLAC metadata (also supports Vorbis and other formats).
</li>
149 <li><a href=
"http://members.rogers.com/beamsplitter/">RipBeak
</a> is a nice GUI encoding frond-end that supports FLAC as well as Vorbis and MP3.
</li>
150 <li><a href=
"http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21952">xACT
</a>, another FLAC distribution with a graphical front-end to FLAC and other formats.
</li>
154 <a name=
"extras_gui_unix"><b>Unix
</b></a>
156 <li><a href=
"http://www.nostatic.org/grip/">Grip
</a> is a great ripping and encoding front end and can be easily configured to use flac. See
<a href=
"http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=45939">this thread
</a> on how to configure Grip for FLAC.
</li>
157 <li><a href=
"http://www.amb.org/xmcd/">xmcd
</a> is a CD ripper with CDDB support as well as a player.
</li>
158 <li>(
<a href=
"links.html#software">many more
</a>)
</li>
162 <a name=
"extras_gui_pocketpc"><b>Pocket PC
</b></a>
164 <li>[$]
<a href=
"http://www.gidluckmastering.com/live2496.html">Live2496
</a>, a program that can record
24-bit audio up to
96kHz on a Pocket PC (using
<a href=
"http://www.core-sound.com/">Core Sound's PDAudio interface
</a>) can record directly to FLAC.
</li>
168 <a name=
"extras_burning"><b>CD burning:
</b></a>
171 <a name=
"extras_burning_windows"><b>Windows
</b></a>
173 <li><a href=
"http://www.burnatonce.com/">burnatonce
</a>, a CD burning GUI that wraps around
<a href=
"http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrdao/">cdrdao
</a> and
<a href=
"http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdrecord/">mkisofs
</a>.
</li>
174 <li><a href=
"http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4">Burrrn
</a> supports burning CDs from cuesheets directly from many formats, including FLAC, and supports most tag formats.
</li>
175 <li><a href=
"http://www.cdwave.com/">CD Wave
</a>, a CD authoring tool that can read and write FLAC.
</li>
176 <li><a href=
"http://dbpoweramp.com/cdwriter.htm">dBpowerAMP CD Writer
</a>.
</li>
177 <li>[$]
<a href=
"http://www.poikosoft.com/">Easy CD-DA Extractor
</a>.
</li>
178 <li>[$]
<a href=
"http://www.roxio.com/enu/products/creator/suite/features.html">Easy Media Creator
9 Suite
</a> from Roxio.
</li>
182 <a name=
"extras_burning_osx"><b>Mac OS X
</b></a>
184 <li>[$] Roxio's
<a href=
"http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/index.jhtml">Toast
7 Titanium
</a> supports encoding to FLAC and CD/DVD burning from FLAC.
</li>
188 <a name=
"extras_burning_unix"><b>Unix
</b></a>
190 <li><a href=
"http://arson.sourceforge.net/">Arson
</a>: KDE ripper/burner
</li>
191 <li><a href=
"http://www.k3b.org/">K3B
</a>: CD/DVD creator for Linux
</li>
192 <li>(
<a href=
"links.html#software">more
</a>)
</li>
196 <a name=
"extras_players"><b>Players and plugins:
</b></a>
199 <a name=
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</b></a>
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202 <li><a href="http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/files/cool_flac.zip">Cooledit FLAC filter</a> (source code <a href="http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/files/cool_flac_src.zip">here</a>).</li>
204 <li>[$]
<a href=
"http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/main.html">Adobe Audition a.k.a. CoolEdit
</a> (as a
<a href=
"http://www.vuplayer.com/audition.php">plugin
</a>, alternate plugin by Case
<a href=
"http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=20145">here
</a>)
</li>
205 <li><a href=
"http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/">Apollo
</a> (as a
<a href=
"http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/Plug-ins.html">plugin
</a>)
</li>
206 <li><a href=
"http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dbpoweramp.htm">dbPowerAMP
</a> (as a
<a href=
"http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-flac.htm">plugin
</a>)
</li>
207 <li>DirectShow:
<a href=
"http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">Illiminable's DirectShow filters
</a> for encoding to/decoding from FLAC and Ogg FLAC (as well as Ogg Vorbis/Speex/Theora).
</li>
208 <li>DirectShow:
<a href=
"http://corecodec.org/projects/coreflac">CoreFLAC
</a>: DirectShow filters for encoding to/decoding from FLAC.
</li>
209 <li><a href=
"http://www.foobar2000.org/">foobar2000
</a> (as a
<a href=
"http://www.foobar2000.org/components.html#foo_flac">plugin
</a>)
</li>
210 <li>[$]
<a href=
"http://www.jrmediacenter.com/">Media Center
</a>/
<a href=
"http://www.mediajukebox.com/">Media Jukebox
</a> (as
<a href=
"http://mcplugins.sourceforge.net/">plugins
</a>). Source code is available.
</li>
211 <li>[$]
<a href=
"http://www.mediamonkey.com/">MediaMonkey
</a>: organizes, plays, and rips to FLAC.
</li>
212 <li><a href=
"http://www.phsoft.nl/">Mp3CoolPlay-X
</a> (as a
<a href=
"http://www.phsoft.nl/?id=flacplginf">plugin
</a>)
</li>
213 <li><a href=
"http://www.quinnware.com/">Quintessential Player
</a> (as a
<a href=
"http://www.quinnware.com/list_plugins.php?plugin=126">plugin
</a>)
</li>
214 <li><a href=
"http://www.songbirdnest.com/">Songbird
</a></li>
215 <li><a href=
"http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html">VLC
</a></li>
216 <li><a href=
"http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.php">VUPlayer
</a></li>
217 <li><a href=
"http://www.winamp.com/">Winamp
</a> has native FLAC support
</li>
218 <li>Windows Media Player, using either the
<a href=
"http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">Illiminable
</a> or
<a href=
"http://corecodec.org/projects/coreflac">CoreFLAC
</a> DirectShow filters, and FLAC tag support with
<a href=
"http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net/">WMP Tag Support Extender
</a> (
<a href=
"http://www.losslessaudioblog.com/?p=40">guide
</a>)
</li>
219 <li><a href=
"http://un4seen.com/xmplay.html">XMPlay
</a> (as a
<a href=
"http://un4seen.com/download.cgi?xmp-flac">plugin
</a>)
</li>
220 <li><a href=
"http://music.yahoo.com/musicengine/">Yahoo! Music Engine
</a></li>
224 <a name=
"extras_players_osx"><b>Mac OS X
</b></a>
226 <li><a href=
"http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/">Cog
</a></li>
227 <li><a href=
"http://freshmeat.net/projects/cynthiune/">Cynthiune
</a> music player
</li>
228 <li><a href=
"http://arcticlounge.com/maltx/">MacAmp Lite X
</a></li>
229 <li><a href=
"http://homepage.mac.com/steve_bryan/Personal12.html">PureMusic Audio Player
</a></li>
230 <li><a href=
"http://www.songbirdnest.com/">Songbird
</a></li>
231 <li><a href=
"http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html">VLC
</a></li>
232 <li><a href=
"http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/">XiphQT
</a> component for Quicktime/iTunes that supports Ogg FLAC playback
</li>
236 <a name=
"extras_players_unix"><b>Unix
</b></a>
238 <li><a href=
"http://alsaplayer.org/">AlsaPlayer
</a></li>
239 <li><a href=
"http://www.giantdisc.org/">GiantDisc
</a>: Linux jukebox + Palm remote
</li>
240 <li><a href=
"http://www.mplayerhq.hu/">MPlayer
</a></li>
241 <li><a href=
"http://muine.gooeylinux.org/">Muine
</a>: a music player for GNOME
</li>
242 <li><a href=
"http://musik.berlios.de/">Musik
</a>: an open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and library
</li>
243 <li><a href=
"http://www.videolan.org/">VideoLAN
</a> client
</li>
244 <li><a href=
"http://xine.sourceforge.net/">Xine
</a> multimedia player
</li>
245 <li><a href=
"http://www.amb.org/xmcd/">xmcd
</a>: X CD player
</li>
246 <li><a href=
"http://www.xmms.org/">XMMS
</a>: X MultiMedia System
</li>
247 <li>(
<a href=
"links.html#software">many more
</a>)
</li>
251 <a name=
"extras_players_java"><b>Java
</b></a>
253 <li><a href=
"http://jflac.sourceforge.net/">jFLAC
</a>: a Java native-FLAC decoder library and player application.
</li>
254 <li><a href=
"http://www.j-ogg.de/">J-Ogg
</a>: Java libraries for Ogg decoding, including Ogg FLAC.
</li>
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