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.