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FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, originally developed by Josh Coalson. For more information on the format, see the [http://flac.sourceforge.net FLAC homepage at SourceForge]. FLAC is available as source code as well as executables for Windows, Linux, Mac, and several other operating systems. Plugins for a variety of media players have been developed. |
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, originally developed by Josh Coalson. For more information on the format, see the [http://flac.sourceforge.net FLAC homepage at SourceForge]. FLAC is available as source code as well as executables for Windows, Linux, Mac, and several other operating systems. Plugins for a variety of media players have been developed. |
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== Required Components == |
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There are two components to using FLAC inside MEDIA CENTER. One is the decoder, the other is the encoder. You can use either one or both. The encoder is used to make FLAC files while the decoder is used to play FLAC files and to tag files. |
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Currently, both J.River and scthom are supporting their own versions of the flac plugin. |
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Revision as of 21:25, 7 June 2010
FLAC Basics
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, originally developed by Josh Coalson. For more information on the format, see the FLAC homepage at SourceForge. FLAC is available as source code as well as executables for Windows, Linux, Mac, and several other operating systems. Plugins for a variety of media players have been developed.
Inclusion in MC12
Beginning with MC 12.0.331, a FLAC plugin is included. It is based on the scthom plugin, with the author's permission. The code was modified slightly due to differing compilers.
== Older versions
The FLAC plugins in older versions were not developed by J.River. The original decoder plugin was developed by Oblong, and later plugins (both decoder and encoder) were developed by scthom.
FLAC plug-ins for old versions were available from the mcplugins SourceForge page (both MC11 and MC12). Version 1 of the encoder and input plug-ins is for MC11, and version 2 is for MC12.