FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified,
FLAC is 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) just like you would an MP3 file.
FLAC is freely available and supported on most operating systems,
including Windows, "unix" (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X, IRIX), BeOS,
OS/2, and Amiga. There are build systems for autotools, MSVC, Watcom C, and
Project Builder.
Click the follwing link to go to the FLAC homepage: http://flac.sourceforge.net/index.html
For Mp3CoolPlay-X you need a decoder plugin to get FLAC support, when downloaded
you have to copy the dll files contained in the package to the 'decoders'
directory found in your Mp3CoolPlay-X installation folder. Mp3CoolPlay-X will
load the decoders automaticly and you are able to play FLAC encoded files
just as any other format supported by Mp3CoolPlay-X. Remember that you need
at least Mp3CoolPlay-X version 2.9 for this decoder plugin to work.
Click here
to download the FLAC decoder plugin for Mp3CoolPlay-X
