Popular high-quality audio codec

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an open and free audio codec used for transcoding lossless recordings.

Music enthusiasts tend to favor FLAC codec as it offers excellent sound quality. You can listen to FLAC music files on high-end audio devices while collecting collections using it too – its compression ratio may be lower than MP3, yet other indicators prove its superiority over it.

FLAC download for mac various software available for listening and editing FLAC format music files, enabling users to easily use this format both on desktop computers as well as portable devices.

Advantages of FLAC format:

Ability to easily create collections of audio recordings (a single file can contain as many tracks as desired with all necessary details about them – album image, artist name, track title name text etc), improving quality records.
Codec is completely open source, which greatly expands its uses and ensures high-quality audio recordings without loss in sound quality.

Just like any codec, FLAC does have some shortcomings – yet none can be considered significant: these flaws only exist within certain instances and do not affect audio playback quality significantly.

• Large file size.
• lacking support on older audio devices.

Additional Information

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