libFLAC(3) C Library Functions libFLAC(3)NAME
FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec
DESCRIPTION
FLAC an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio
is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to
how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression
because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back
compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home
stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file.
FLAC stands out as the fastest and most widely supported lossless audio
codec, and the only one that at once is non-proprietary, is unencum‐
bered by patents, has an open-source reference implementation, has a
well documented format and API, and has several other independent
implementations.
FLAC supports tagging, cover art, and fast seeking. FLAC is freely
available and supported on most operating systems, including Windows,
"unix" (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X, IRIX), BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga.
To access the API documentation, you must install the developer version
of the package.
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/lib/libFLAC.so
FLAC shared library
/usr/share/doc/flac-1.2.1
Location of developer documentation
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │codec/flac │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Interface stability │Volatile │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOlibvorbis(3),
libspeex(3)NOTES
Written by Jerry Tan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2009.
SunOS 5.11 25 Feb 2009 libFLAC(3)
