List of hardware and software that supports FLAC
This is a list of computer hardware and software which supports FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), a file format designed for lossless compression of digital audio.
Software support
Encoding
Name |
Description |
Platform |
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Windows |
Mac OS X |
GNU/Linux |
Adobe Soundbooth |
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aTunes |
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ALLPlayer |
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Audacious |
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Audacity |
Possible since version 1.2.5. Requires compilation from source on some platforms: not included in distributed Windows and OS X builds as of 4 November 2011. |
Not by default |
Cakewalk SONAR |
Producer EDition version 7 and later. |
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CDex |
Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. |
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Easy Media Creator |
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Exact Audio Copy |
Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. |
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FlaCuda |
An experimental encoder released under the LGPL that runs on GPUs with OpenCL or CUDA support. On high end GPUs it has been reported to outperform CPU encoders by orders of magnitude. Multi-channel or higher than 16 bit depth are not yet supported. |
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Flake (and libFlake) |
An independent LGPL implementation purported to be faster at the same compression ratio than the reference libFlac; it also offers some experimental higher compression ratios. An experimental version that supports multiple threads/cores has been developed by a third party. |
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FFmpeg |
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foobar2000 |
With external encoder |
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fre:ac |
Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. |
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GoldWave |
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GOM Player |
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Grip |
Grip is a cd-player and cd-ripper for the Gnome desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia builtin, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). |
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JetAudio |
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Juce |
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JRiver Media Center |
Since version 12.0.3xx |
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Media Go |
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MediaMonkey |
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MusicBee |
Via flac.exe that is shipped with MusicBee and available separately at flac.sourceforge.net |
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Nero Burning ROM |
With optional external filter plug-in. |
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REAPER |
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Samplitude |
Since version 10.2 |
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Sequoia |
Since version 10.2 |
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Sound Forge |
Version 9 and later |
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Vegas Pro 8, Vegas Pro 9 |
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Toast Titanium |
Beginning with version 7 |
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Total Recorder |
Standard and Professional editions |
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VLC media player |
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WaveLab |
Added in version 7.1 |
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Winamp |
Since 5.35 uses Flake. Versions before 5.54 generate an incorrect MD5 checksum. |
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xACT |
Not to be confused with Microsoft's XACT audio programming library. |
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XMedia Recode |
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X Lossless Decoder |
Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. |
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Yahoo! Music Jukebox |
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Decoding
- Cross-platform
- Boxee
- FFmpeg
- aTunes
- PS3 Media Server
- Adobe Audition
- Audacity 1.3.5 Beta
- Clementine
- MPlayer
- Songbird
- Squeezebox
- The Core Pocket Media Player with FLAC plugin
- VLC media player
- XBMC Media Center
- Mixxx Digital DJ software
- Microsoft Windows
- Ableton Live
- Adobe Premiere Pro with FLAC plugin
- AIMP
- Billy since version 1.04i
- Creative Centrale
- DJ Decks
- foobar2000
- GoldWave
- JRiver Media Center since version 12.0.3xx
- iTunes after installing codec from Xiph (Ogg FLAC only)
- JetAudio
- K-Multimedia Player
- MediaMonkey
- MusicBee
- Cockos REAPER Multitrack Recorder and Editor
- Renoise supports import and export from version 1.8
- Quintessential Player with FLAC plugin
- SUPER
- Vegas Pro 8, Vegas Pro 9
- Total Recorder
- TRAKTOR 3
- TRAKTOR Scratch
- TVersity, using ffdshow to transcode stream to WAV
- VUPlayer
- Winamp
- Windows Media Player and Media Player Classic with third-party plugin
- Media Player Classic Home Cinema
- Yahoo! Music Jukebox
- Windows Mobile
- Kinoma Play
- CorePlayer (Shareware)
- Unix-like operating systems
- Audacious
- Banshee
- Baudline
- Cmus
- mpd
- ogg123 (if compiled against FLAC: ogg123 is part of the 'vorbis-tools' package)
- Xine
- XMMS
- XMMS2
- GNOME
- GnomeBaker
- Quod Libet
- Rhythmbox
- Totem Movie Player
- Serpentine
- KDE
- Amarok
- JuK
- Audiokonverter (from the context menu pop-up)
- Mac OS X
- Ableton Live
- Amarra, Amarra MINI, Amarra Junior (version 2.2, commercial)
- Audirvana (version 1.0, free), Audirvana Plus (version 1.2, commercial)
- Cog
- CorePlayer (Shareware)
- Decibel by sbooth (version 1.2.6, commercial)
- Fidelia by Audiofile Engineering (version 1.1.2, commercial)
- Plex media center
- PreMaster CD (version 3.3, commercial)
- QuickTime with the Xiph QT component
- TCPMP (version 0.72rc1, open source) with free plug-in
- TRAKTOR 3
- TRAKTOR Scratch
- xACT, not to be confused with Microsoft's XACT
Ripping
- Cross-platform
- Songbird
- aTunes
- Microsoft Windows
- Audiograbber (with external encoder)
- Audio Transcoder
- BonkEnc using the FLAC.dll API
- CDex included in v1.7 beta2
- Exact Audio Copy using the external encoder
- Easy CD-DA Extractor
- foobar2000 (with external encoder)
- Iriver plus 3
- JetAudio
- MediaMonkey
- MusicBee
- Sony Media Go
- Winamp
- Yahoo! Music Jukebox
- Unix-like operating systems
- ABCDE
- Asunder
- Banshee
- Cdda2wav
- Cdparanoia
- Mencoder
- crip
- Grip
- GNOME
- Sound Juicer
- KDE
- K3b
- Konqueror
- Mac OS X
- Max (Mac OS 10.4 or higher)
- XLD (Mac OS 10.4 or higher)
OS Packaged Software
Apple
iOS
FLAC is not natively supported on the iOS platform, including all "iDevices". This is especially true of iTunes software on such devices, where FLAC is not supported, with Apple only offering native support for their own similar ALAC lossless audio format. Third party applications are available in the App Store which enable FLAC playback. Jailbroken iOS devices could play it through the applications from Cydia.
OS X
As with their iOS operating system, Apple's iTunes software on OS X cannot natively playback FLAC audio files. One exception to this is with the use of a third-party software plug-in, which currently allows iTunes software to playback a small percentage of Ogg-based FLAC files. Computers that run on the OS X operating system require third-party non-iTunes media players in order to playback FLAC files, or to encode into FLAC files.
Android
Native support for FLAC was added to the Android operating system starting from the 3.1 'Honeycomb' update. The feature came AbOUT after much public discussion on Android's Google Code development site.
Prior to the Android 3.1 update, Samsung included native support on over 32 Android devices, including their Galaxy line of phones. In addition, other prior Android device users could only (and still today) resort to using third-party applications (apps) available for Android such as PowerAMP or andLess or otherwise alternatively turn to installing custom system ROM's such as CyanogenMod. It is good to note that some of these third-party applications, especially PowerAMP, are decoding FLAC and other formats with the use of FFmpeg thereby not needing any reliance on the operating system itself.
Microsoft
The Windows Mobile operating system is able to support playback of FLAC files through the use of plugins or third-party applications such as TCMP and others. On Windows Phone 7 (WP7) there is no FLAC support available in the default Zune media player.
Others
Built-in support
- TRAXMOD Open source, open hardware portable MMC/SD player supports 44.1 kHz/16-bit stereo FLAC playback.
- Onkyo TX-NR906 Supports 16 bit/24 bit at 44.1 kHz/48 kHz/96 kHz Mono & Stereo FLAC files through external USB with metatag display support.
- Pioneer SC-05, SC-07, SC-25, SC-27, SC-35, SC-37 and SC-09TX support via external USB (network support verified)
- Denon AVP-A1HDCI, AVR-4810, AVR-4310, AVR-4311, AVR-3310, AVR-5308, AVR-4308, AVR-3808 AV Receivers
- Yamaha RX-V2065 AV Receiver, RX-A1000/A2000/A3000 AV Receiver, RX-V1067, RX-V2067, RX-V3067 AV Receivers
- Meridian Sooloos
- Escient
- iAudio (Cowon): A2, A3, 6, 7, F2, O2, M3, M5, X5, U3, U5, D2, D2+, S9, J3, X7 native support with newer firmware.
- PhatBox Hard Drive based in car Digital Media Player from PhatNoise
- Rio Karma
- SanDisk Sansa Fuze, Clip (with updated firmware), Clip+, Fuze+, Clip Zip
- Squeezebox and Transporter network music players from Logitech. Current products decode natively, old v1 units transcode to PCM on the server.
- Sonos 16bit max.
- Meizu M6 Mini Player, M3 Music Card
- VEDIA A10, B6
- Pixel Magic Systems' HD Mediabox (with firmware 1.3.4 or higher)
- Embedded Waveplayer Module with FLAC level 0-2 support, MIDI and serial interface
- Teclast T29, T39, C260, C280, C290
- Trekstor Vibez
- T+A Music Player
- PS Audio Perfect Wave DAC + Bridge (Digital to Analog Converter/Digital Streamer)
- Linn Klimax DS (Digital Stream): Digital Music Player
- Linn Renew DS: Digital Music Player
- Linn Akurate DS: Digital Music Player
- Linn Majik DS: Digital Music Player
- Linn Sneaky Music DS: Digital Music Player
- iriver E200, E150, E100, E50, E30, Lplayer, SPINN.
- Archos 5 Internet Tablet
- Archos Internet Media Tablets
- Naim Audio HDX Hard Disk Player, NaimUniti, UnitiQute, DAC, NDX, UnitiServe
- Samsung YP-U5
- Creative Zen X-Fi 2
- WD TV
- Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ HD, HDTV Network Media Player STAJ100
- Samsung Droid Charge
- Samsung Epic 4G
- Samsung Exhibit 4G
- Samsung Fascinate
- Samsung Galaxy K
- Samsung Galaxy Note
- Samsung Galaxy R
- Samsung Galaxy S
- Samsung Galaxy S Plus
- Samsung Galaxy S II
- Samsung Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch
- Samsung Galaxy S II LTE
- Samsung Galaxy S2 Mini
- Samsung Galaxy SL
- Samsung Galaxy Tab
- Samsung Galaxy U
- Samsung Infuse 4G
- Samsung Mesmerize
- TVIX HD M-6500, N1 (cafe), HD M-6600A/N Plus, HD M-7000
- Nokia N900, Nokia N9
- OPPO Digital BDP-93 & BDP-95 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Players
After-market
- Nintendo Wii when running the Wii homebrew app MPlayerWii or MPlayer CE or WiiMC
- Apple TV, Plex, XBMC Media Center or Boxee
- iPod: 1st through Classic generation, iPod mini and 1st/2nd generation iPod nano (not the shuffle, 3rd gen nano, or touch), using third party Rockbox firmware
- Nearly all other Rockbox-compatible DAPs, including the iriver and Gigabeat (Toshiba) range of devices, plus the aforementioned iPods
- Sound Devices 7-Series Professional Audio Recorders with "badger" firmware update (v.2.24)
- Sony PlayStation Portable when running the homebrew LightMP3 application.
- Samsung YP-P3, YP-Q1, YP-Q2, YP-U5, YP-S5 (with upgraded firmware available from Samsung website)
- FLAC playback is possible on mobile devices or phones based on Windows Mobile, or Symbian OS with either S60, Series 80 or Series 90 UI platforms, can run the free open source media player application OggPlay. Also LCG Jukebox from Lonely Cat Games is able to play FLAC audio on Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile devices.
- Android operating system devices are capable of playing FLAC since version 3.1 Others may also support it by replacing the device's firmware with the third-party CyanogenMod ROM, which can play back FLAC. Otherwise users could simply opt to use a third-party supported application for Android such as PowerAMP, andLess, RockPlayer or Meridian Media Player. Such players can even recognize the tags after using Extended Media Scanner.
- Rockbox open source firmware for multiple portable audio players
External links
- GSMArena Phone Finder: all phones & tablets with FLAC support
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