What is FLAC?
Free Lossless Audio Codec
A lossless audio format that compresses without quality loss — about half the size of WAV.
Advantages
- Lossless
- Smaller than WAV
- Open standard
Limitations
- Larger than MP3/AAC
- Not playable on all devices
Best used for
Archiving and high-fidelity music libraries.
- Extensions
- .flac
- MIME type
- audio/flac
- Compression
- Lossless
Free FLAC tools
Audio ConverterConvert audio between MP3, WAV, OGG, AAC, and M4A.MP3 ConverterConvert audio files to MP3.FLAC ConverterConvert audio to lossless FLAC.AAC ConverterConvert audio to AAC.Add Audio to VideoAdd or replace the soundtrack of a video with an audio file.FLAC to MP3Convert lossless FLAC audio to MP3.