FLAC

• Company: Xiph
• Website: http://flac.sourceforge.net/
• Samples: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/lossless/ (luckynight.flac)

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Sometimes it also serves as its own container format and sometimes it is encapsulated in Ogg files. It has a prediction model that is very similar to the one used by Shorten.

References

• HydrogenAudio wiki entry for FLAC
• Wikipedia article on FLAC
• digitalpreservation.gov entry on FLAC