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links
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

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