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This is a list of computer hardware and software which supports FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), a file format designed for lossless compression of digital audio.

Hardware support

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Car devices

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  • Alpine CDE-163BT
  • Alpine UTE-62BT
  • Citroën DS5
  • Hyundai Ioniq
  • Hyundai Kona
  • Kenwood KMM-100U
  • Nissan X-trail T3
  • Peugeot 208 Blue Lion
  • Pioneer Avic-4100 -> 8100NEX
  • Pioneer DEH-X8700BH
  • Power Acoustik PD-622NB
  • Renault Espace
  • SEAT León
  • Sony MEX-N5100BT
  • Sony MEX-XB100BT
  • Sony XAV-AX1000
  • Tesla Models S/X/3/Y

DJ players

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Portable stereo / boombox

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Active speakers

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Home audio AV receivers / amplifiers

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  • Bang and Olufsen BeoSound 5[5]
  • Denon AVR-1612, AVR-2313, AVR-3310, AVR-3808, AVR-4308, AVR-4310,[6] AVR-4311, AVR-4520A, AVR-4810, AVR-5308, AVP-A1HDCI, AVR-X1000,[7] AVR-X2000, AVR-X3000, AVR-X4000, NP-720AE[8]*Escient[9]
  • Onkyo TX-8050, TX-SR309, TX-SR333, TX-NR535, TX-NR626, TX-NR636, TX-NR737, TX-NR838, TX-NR1030, TX-NR3030
  • Pioneer SC-05, SC-07, SC-25, SC-27, SC-35, SC-37, SC-09TX, X-HM76B, XC-HM86
  • Sonos 16-bit max.
  • Sony's High-Res Audio Players[10]
  • Yamaha RX-A1000/A2000/A3000 AV Receiver, RX-V477, RX-V671, RX-V673 (RX-V773, RX-V671, RX-V673 – up to 96 kHz streaming and 192 kHz external link) AV Receivers, RX-V773, RX-V795, RX-V1067, RX-V2065 AV Receiver, RX-V2067, RX-V3067 AV Receivers

Home media servers and clients

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  • Cambridge Audio CXN Network Player | Azur 851N Network Player
  • Dvico TVIX HD M-6500, N1 (cafe), HD M-6600A/N Plus, HD M-7000
  • Linn Klimax DS, Renew DS, Akurate DS, Majik DS and Sneaky Music DS
  • Logitech Squeezebox and Transporter network music players from Logitech. Current products decode natively, old v1 units transcode to PCM on the server. (discontinued)
  • Naim Audio HDX Hard Disk Player,[11] NaimUniti, UnitiQute, DAC, NDX, UnitiServe
  • Meridian Sooloos
  • Pixel Magic Systems' HD Mediabox (with firmware 1.3.4 or higher)
  • PS Audio Perfect Wave DAC + Bridge (Digital-to-Analog Converter/Digital Streamer)
  • Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ HD, HDTV Network Media Player STAJ100
  • T+A Music Player[12]
  • Western Digital WD TV HD based

Portable handheld players

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Smartphones and tablets

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  • Archos 5 Internet Tablet
  • Archos Internet Media Tablets[19]
  • Nokia N900, Nokia N9[20]
  • BlackBerry Playbook Tablet, BlackBerry 10 smartphones
  • Most Android devices with a compatible third-party player, such as Apollo or "VLC". Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  • Samsung Wave series
  • Windows Mobile 6.5 or earlier with compatible third-party software player.
  • Windows Phone devices running Windows 10 Mobile (Windows Phone 7/8 may vary).
  • Jolla series of smartphones

Blu-ray / DVD / USB players

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  • LG UBKM9, UBK90, UBK80 (Blu-ray players with USB port)
  • OPPO Digital BDP-93 & BDP-95 and BDP-103 & BDP-105 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Players, and UDP-203 & UDP-205 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Players
  • Panasonic BDP-BD77, BDT500[22]
  • Roku Ultra (media player)
  • Samsung HT-H4500R[23]
  • Sony BDP-S1200, BDP-S3200, BDP-S4200, BDP-S5200[24]

Portable handheld recorders

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  • Olympus LS-P4

Unsorted

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  • Embedded Waveplayer Module with FLAC level 0–2 support, MIDI and serial interface

Software support

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Encoding

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Although some software supports FLAC natively "out of the box", some require installation of a third-part FLAC filter or plug-in.

Name Description Platform
Windows Mac OS X Linux
Adobe Audition Does not natively support FLAC but can use a third-party filter. Yes[25] No No
aTunes Yes Yes No
ALLPlayer Yes No No
Audacious No No Yes
Audacity Possible since version 1.2.5.[26]

Full support since 2.0.0[27]

Yes Yes Yes
Cakewalk SONAR Producer Edition version 7 and later. Yes No No
CDex Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. Yes No No
Easy Media Creator Yes No No
Exact Audio Copy Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. Yes No No
FFmpeg Yes Yes Yes
foobar2000 With external encoder Yes No No
fre:ac Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. Yes Yes Yes
GoldWave Yes No No
GOM Player Yes No No
Grip Grip is a CD-player and CD-ripper for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built-in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). No No Yes
JetAudio Yes No No
Juce Yes Yes No
JRiver Media Center Since version 12.0.3xx Yes No No
Media Go Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. Yes No No
MediaCoder Yes[citation needed] No No
MediaMonkey Yes No No
MusicBee Via flac.exe that is shipped with MusicBee and available separately at flac.sourceforge.net Yes No No
Nero Burning ROM With optional external filter plug-in. Yes No No
REAPER Yes Yes No
Sound Forge Version 9 and later Yes No No
Vegas Pro 8, Vegas Pro 9 Yes No No
Toast Titanium Beginning with version 7 No Yes No
Total Recorder Standard and Professional editions Yes No No
VLC media player Yes Yes Yes
WaveLab Added in version 7.1 Yes Yes No
Winamp Since 5.35 uses Flake.[28] Versions before 5.54 generate an incorrect MD5 checksum.[29] Yes No No
Windows Media Player Added in Windows 10. Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. Yes No No
XMedia Recode Yes No No
Yahoo! Music Jukebox Yes No No

Decoding

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Ripping

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OS packaged software

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Apple

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iOS

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FLAC is natively supported on IOS 11, including all "iDevices", but only via the Files (Apple) app or iCloud Drive. iTunes does not support FLAC, with Apple only offering native support for their own similar ALAC lossless audio format. Third-party applications are available in the App Store which enable FLAC playback.

Jailbroken iOS devices could play it through the applications from Cydia.[citation needed]

macOS

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As with their iOS operating system, Apple's iTunes software on macOS cannot natively playback FLAC audio files. One exception to this is with the use of a third-party software plug-in, which currently allows iTunes software to playback a small percentage of Ogg-based FLAC files. Computers that run on the MacOS High Sierra operating can play Flac files via QuickTime Player. Older versions require third-party non-iTunes media players in order to playback FLAC files, or to encode into FLAC files.

Android

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Native support for FLAC was added to the Android operating system starting from the 3.1 'Honeycomb' update.[31] The feature came about after much public discussion on Android's Google Code development site.[32] However, FLAC support is limited to .FLAC files as Android does not support decode inside of other file containers (such as MP4 and MKV).[33]

Prior to the Android 3.1 update, Samsung included native support on over 32 Android devices, including their Galaxy line of phones.[21] In addition, other prior Android device users could only (and still today) resort to using third-party applications (apps) available for Android such as PowerAMP, andLess, Astro Player or otherwise alternatively turn to installing custom system ROMs such as CyanogenMod. Note that some of these third-party applications, especially PowerAMP, decode FLAC and other formats using FFmpeg and therefore do not rely on the operating system to provide that functionality.

Microsoft

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The Windows Mobile operating system is able to support playback of FLAC files through the use of plugins or third-party applications such as TCMP and others.[34] On Windows Phone 7 (WP7) there is no FLAC support available in the default Zune media player[35][36] though playback is supported in third-party applications like a Flac Player.[37] Similar goes for Windows Phone 8.

Microsoft Windows 10 supports FLAC decoding in Windows Media Player and other software that uses Windows platform APIs for audio decoding.[38]

After-market / FLAC support with modding

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  • Nintendo Wii when running the Wii homebrew app MPlayerWii[39] or MPlayer CE or WiiMC[40]
  • Apple TV, Plex, XBMC Media Center or Boxee
  • iPod: 1st through Classic generation, iPod mini and 1st/2nd generation iPod nano (not the shuffle, 3rd gen nano, or touch), using third party Rockbox firmware
  • Nearly all other Rockbox-compatible DAPs, including the iriver and Gigabeat (Toshiba) range of devices, plus the aforementioned iPods
  • Sound Devices 7-Series Professional Audio Recorders with "badger" firmware update (v.2.24)[41]
  • Sony PlayStation Portable when running the homebrew LightMP3 application.[42]
  • Samsung YP-P3, YP-Q1, YP-Q2, YP-U5, YP-S5 (with upgraded firmware available from Samsung website)
  • FLAC playback is possible on mobile devices or phones based on Windows Mobile, or Symbian OS with either S60, Series 80 or Series 90 UI platforms, can run the free open source media player application OggPlay.[43] Also LCG Jukebox from Lonely Cat Games is able to play FLAC audio on Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile devices.
  • Android operating system devices are capable of playing FLAC since version 3.1[44] Others may also support it by replacing the device's firmware with the third-party CyanogenMod ROM, which can play back FLAC. Otherwise users could simply opt to use a third-party supported application for Android such as PowerAMP, andLess, RockPlayer or Meridian Media Player. Such players can even recognize the tags after using Extended Media Scanner. Example of this include HTC HD2 running third-party Android software.
  • Rockbox open source firmware for multiple portable audio players

References

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  2. ^ "Pioneer DJ: All specifications & features".
  3. ^ "Pioneer DJ XDJ-1000MK2: All specifications & features".
  4. ^ "Logitech Z607 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers with Bluetooth".
  5. ^ "Bang and Olufsen BeoSound 5". Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  6. ^ "DENON UK – AVR-4310". Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  7. ^ "DENON UK – AVR-X1000". Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  8. ^ "DENON UK – Network Audio Player with AirPlay". Archived from the original on 24 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  9. ^ "Supported Digital Music Formats & Tagging Requirements" (PDF). Escient. p. 2. Retrieved 27 January 2008.
  10. ^ "Sony High-Resolution Audio products page". Retrieved 10 June 2014.
  11. ^ "Naim Audio HDX". 19 May 2014.
  12. ^ "T+A E-Series Music-Player". Retrieved 27 January 2008.
  13. ^ H.264-HD Encoder Core
  14. ^ "iRiver E100".
  15. ^ "Samsung". Retrieved 8 October 2009.
  16. ^ "Sansa Fuze updated to support Ogg and FLAC". Retrieved 18 October 2008.
  17. ^ "Sansa Clip Firmware 01.01.30 Released". Retrieved 18 October 2008.
  18. ^ anythingbutipod.com: SanDisk Sansa Clip+ Plus Review
  19. ^ "Archos 5 and Archos 7 – Firmware Changes". Update.archos.com. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
  20. ^ "N9". Retrieved 16 January 2012.
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  22. ^ "Home". 12 January 2012.
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  25. ^ vuplayer.com. "Cool Edit / Adobe Audition file filters". Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  26. ^ Audacity development team (30 October 2006). "Audacity 1.3.2 a 1.2.5 released". Retrieved 19 January 2010.
  27. ^ Audacity development team (14 March 2012). "Release notes 2.0.0". Audacity Wiki. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
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  29. ^ "Winamp & Shoutcast Forums - View Single Post - FLAC Tester". 28 May 2008.
  30. ^ "Latest in Tech › the Core Media Player". Archived from the original on 8 October 2011. Retrieved 15 November 2011.
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  32. ^ "Issue 1461 – android – FLAC file support enhancement request". code.google.com. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
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  38. ^ Copper, Daniel (27 November 2014). "Windows 10 will play your .MKV and .FLAC files all on its own". Engadget. Retrieved 28 November 2014.
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  40. ^ "WiiBrew Wiki entry for WiiMC". Retrieved 25 February 2011.
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  42. ^ "File Details-LightMP3-v1.7.1-(FLAC-bugfix)-PSP-Homebrew-Applications". Dl.qj.net. 13 March 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
  43. ^ Leif H. Wilden. "Symbian OggPlay". Symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 24 March 2009.
  44. ^ "Supported media formats".
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