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flac (Codec)

This article describes the flac codec. For the linux flac package see the [flac package entry](./linux/flac_(package).md.

flac - short for Free Lossless Audio Codec - is a audio codec without compression losses.

Tagging

The following explains the most general tags in short.

  • title is the name of the music piece.
  • artist is the artist of the song - for classical music it is the composer.
  • album is the name of the album.
  • tracknumber is the number of the music piece in the album
  • date is the year of publication
  • albumartist is the artist that made the album
  • discnumber is the disc number of the music piece in the album
  • genre is the genre of the music piece
  • totaldiscs is the amount of discs of the album
  • totaltracks is the amount of tracks in the disc of the music piece
  • front is an image of the front cover
  • performer is used in classical music and defines the artist that played the piece. In audiobooks it can be used to signal the reader of the book.