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The links page is the place for all things FLAC. The hardware section lists the home stereo, car stereo, and portable devices that support the FLAC format. The music section has links to artists, labels, and legal trading/sharing sites that offer works encoded in FLAC. The software section is a loosely categorized list of open-source software that supports the FLAC format. Some of the most popular (some non-free) software can be found on the download page in the extras section.

hardware

Below is a list of devices that support the FLAC format. So far we only have experience with the Rio Reciever. Manufacturers, if you would like your product reviewed here, feel free to send a unit.

Home stereo:

- AudioReQuest music servers
- Digital Techniques' "iStereo" M300A Digital Music Player
- Escient's FireBall servers (E2-40/160/300, DVDM-300), networked home stereo components with hard-drives
- Hifidelio, a wireless home stereo component
- Meda Systems' Bravo servers
- The MS300 Music Server by McIntosh Laboratory
- PhatNoise Home Digital Media Player
- Rio Reciever and Dell Digital Audio Receiver via RioPlay or RRR clients
  This little device is a hacker's dream. There are several open source clients available and since it boots its Linux distro over NFS you can write your own client. They're not made anymore but you can still find them on ebay.
- Roku Soundbridge
- SkipJam's networked audio/video devices
- Squeezebox and SliMP3 networked audio players
- Turtle Beach's AudioTron via Bery Rinaldo's Samba VFS Module
- Zensonic Z500 Networked DVD Media Player

Car stereo:

- Kenwood Music Keg
- PhatBox

Portable/Handheld:

- iAUDIO M3
- Rio Karma

music

Several labels and artists have adopted FLAC as a distribution format for their works, offering them for sale or free download online. And many online trading communities that share legal, band-sanctioned recordings of live shows distribute them in FLAC format. These are just some of them.

Artists

- Buckethead
- Charlie Hunter
- Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains
- Dave Matthews Band
- Metallica
- Phish
- Primus

Labels and Stores

- AliveAudio
- ATO Records (Store)
- DigitalSoundboard.net
- DiscLogic
- EDM Digital
- Fast Atmosphere
- Magnatune
- Mindawn
- morgan leah records
- Musictoday
- Opsound

Venues:

- The Bonnaroo Music Festival

Communities:

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

software

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
- Flacattack: 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.
- 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
- Musik: an open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and library
- 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
- RipIT, a console-based front-end to several ripping and encoding tools

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
- DirectShow filters for encoding to/decoding from FLAC and Ogg FLAC (as well as Ogg Vorbis/Speex/Theora).
- 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

Copyright (c) 2004,2005 Josh Coalson