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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

libFLAC (3lib)

Name

libFLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec

Synopsis

Please see following description for synopsis

Description

libFLAC(3lib)                 Interface Libraries                libFLAC(3lib)



NAME
       FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec

DESCRIPTION
       FLAC  an  audio format 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 just like you would an
       MP3 file.

       FLAC supports tagging, cover art, and  fast  seeking.  FLAC  is  freely
       available  and  supported on most operating systems, including Windows,
       Linux, *BSD, Solaris, and OS X.

FILES
       The following files are provided by this library:

       /usr/lib/libFLAC.so             FLAC 32-bit shared library

       /usr/lib/64/libFLAC.so          FLAC 64-bit shared library

       /usr/lib/pkgconfig/flac.pc      pkg-config(1)  file  for  FLAC   32-bit
                                       shared library

       /usr/lib/64/pkgconfig/flac.pc   pkg-config(1)   file  for  FLAC  64-bit
                                       shared library

       /usr/share/doc/flac-1.3.1       Location of developer documentation


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |   ATTRIBUTE VALUE     |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Availability   | codec/flac            |
       +---------------+-----------------------+
       |Stability      | Pass-through volatile |
       +---------------+-----------------------+

SEE ALSO
       flac(1), metaflac(1), pkg-config(1), libvorbis(3lib), libspeex(3lib)

NOTES
       Written by Jerry Tan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2009.


       Source code for open source software components in Oracle  Solaris  can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source        was         downloaded         from          http://down-
       loads.xiph.org/releases/flac/flac-1.3.1.tar.gz.



Solaris 11.4                      7 Apr 2017                     libFLAC(3lib)