A large and growing list of software supports the FLAC format. This list is a sample of open-source software supporting FLAC. Some of the most popular non-free software can be found on the download page in the extras section.

Audio encoders/decoders/converters/taggers:

• EasyTAG versatile tagger
• Entagged, a Java audio file tagger
• etree-scripts: command-line tools for verifying, tagging, converting, and burning lossless audio files
• FLAC frontend (Windows GUI)
• MacFLAC Mac OS X FLAC distribution
• rawrec/rawplay recording/playback tools
• sonice FLAC to Vorbis transcoder
• Split_wav WAV+CUE splitter
• Tag comprehensive tagger (frontend available)

Audio editors:

• Cooledit FLAC filter
• shntool

Audio players/servers:

• abcde (A Better CD Encoder)
• AlsaPlayer
• Aqualung, a Linux player
• Boss Ogg: Audio client/server
• flac-tools: includes flac123 player
• GiantDisc: Linux jukebox + Palm remote
• JReceiver servlet-based audio server
• Media Center FLAC plugin
• MPD, Music Player Daemon
• MPlayer
• MythTV: Linux PVR and more
• ripperX: X-based ripper/encoder
• Soepkip TNG music playing daemon + web interface
• Thomer's Music Vault: a Linux music server
• VideoLAN client
• Xine multimedia player
• xmcd: X CD player
• XMMS: X MultiMedia System

CD ripping/burning:

• Arson: KDE ripper/burner
• crip: console ripper/encoder/tagger
• MAREO multi-format encoder for EAC
• rip command-line ripper/encoder

Organizers:

• GNUpod includes on-the-fly FLAC conversion to iPod
• MPEG Audio Collection
• Rhythmbox, music management application for GNOME

Developer tools and libraries:

• audiere, a high-level audio API
• Audio::FLAC perl module
• Audio::FLAC::Decoder perl module
• CoreFLAC: FLAC DirectShow filters
• getID3(): a PHP4 script for extracting metadata
• GStreamer streaming media framework
• jFLAC: Java native FLAC decoder
• J-Ogg Java libraries for Ogg decoding
• MediaXW includes FLAC DirectShow filter
• MMIOFLAC, Multimedia IOProc for OS/2
• Ptarmigan media parser for XML
• SDL_sound audio add-on to SDL

Scientific, Audio Analysis:

• HASAS HydroAcoustical Signal Analysis System

1-Oct-2004:

• FLAC 1.1.1 released  There is a new changelog with a complete list of changes/fixes/improvements, but here is a summary of some of the main ones:
  • Better Ogg FLAC support including seeking and an official Ogg FLAC mapping.
  • Significant decoding speedup (almost 2x) on PowerPC (includes Macs with G4/G5).
  • Speedups in the plugins.
  • Several new options to flac and metaflac by popular demand.
  • Several API additions requested by developers.
  • Many bugfixes.

27-Jul-2004:

• The Furthur Network now supports FLAC

  The Furthur Network, a legal-live music sharing P2P network, now supports FLAC.

21-Jun-2004:

• Bonnaroo soundboard recordings available in FLAC

  Several sets from the Bonnaroo Music Festival are available in FLAC, including Phish

• Primus

Labels and Stores

• AliveAudio
• ATO Records (Store)
• DigitalSoundboard.net
• EDM Digital
• Fast Atmosphere
• Magnatune
• morgan leah records
• Musictoday

Venues:

• The Bonnaroo Music Festival

Communities:

• archive.org, the Internet Archive:
  • Live Music Archive
  • Net Labels
  • Open Source Audio
• etree.org
• The Furthur Network

A large and growing list of software supports the FLAC format. This list is a sample of open-source software supporting FLAC. Some of the most popular non-free software can be found on the download page in the extras section.

Audio encoders/decoders/converters/taggers:

• EasyTAG versatile tagger
• Entagged, a Java audio file tagger
• etree-scripts: command-line tools for verifying, tagging, converting, and burning lossless audio files
• FLAC frontend (Windows GUI)
• MacFLAC Mac OS X FLAC distribution
• rawrec/rawplay recording/playback tools
• sonice FLAC to Vorbis transcoder
• Split_wav WAV+CUE splitter
• Tag comprehensive tagger (frontend available)

Audio editors:

• Cooledit FLAC filter
• shntool

Audio players/servers:

• abcde (A Better CD Encoder)
• AlsaPlayer
• Aqualung, a Linux player
• Boss Ogg: Audio client/server
• flac-tools: includes flac123 player
• GiantDisc: Linux jukebox + Palm remote
• JReceiver servlet-based audio server
• Media Center FLAC plugin
• MPD, Music Player Daemon
• MPlayer
• MythTV: Linux PVR and more
• ripperX: X-based ripper/encoder
• Soepkip TNG music playing daemon + web interface
• Thomer's Music Vault: a Linux music server
• VideoLAN client
• Xine multimedia player
• xmcd: X CD player
• XMMS: X MultiMedia System

CD ripping/burning:

• Arson: KDE ripper/burner
• crip: console ripper/encoder/tagger
• MAREO multi-format encoder for EAC
• rip command-line ripper/encoder

Organizers:

• GNUpod includes on-the-fly FLAC conversion to iPod
• MPEG Audio Collection
• Rhythmbox, music management application for GNOME

Developer tools and libraries:

• audiere, a high-level audio API
• Audio::FLAC perl module
• Audio::FLAC::Decoder perl module
• CoreFLAC: FLAC DirectShow filters
• getID3(): a PHP4 script for extracting metadata
• GStreamer streaming media framework
• jFLAC: Java native FLAC decoder
• J-Ogg Java libraries for Ogg decoding
• MediaXW includes FLAC DirectShow filter
• MMIOFLAC, Multimedia IOProc for OS/2
• Ptarmigan media parser for XML
• SDL_sound audio add-on to SDL

Scientific, Audio Analysis:

• HASAS HydroAcoustical Signal Analysis System