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# flac (Codec)
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This article describes the `flac` codec.
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For the linux `flac` package see the
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[flac package entry](./linux/flac_(package).md.
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`flac` - short for Free Lossless Audio Codec - is a [audio](./audio.md) codec
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without compression losses.
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## Tagging
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The following explains the most general tags in short.
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- `title` is the name of the music piece.
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- `artist` is the artist of the song - for classical music it is the composer.
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- `album` is the name of the album.
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- `tracknumber` is the number of the music piece in the album
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- `date` is the year of publication
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- `albumartist` is the artist that made the album
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- `discnumber` is the disc number of the music piece in the album
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- `genre` is the genre of the music piece
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- `totaldiscs` is the amount of discs of the album
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- `totaltracks` is the amount of tracks in the disc of the music piece
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- `front` is an image of the front cover
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- `performer` is used in classical music and defines the artist that
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played the piece. In audiobooks it can be used to signal the reader of the
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book.
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