Short for Free Lossless Audio Codec, FLAC is an open source audio codec with little compression and little audio loss. Because of the lower compression, FLAC files are much larger than lossy files, such as an MP3 file. However, they will sound identical to the source media.

Codec, Computer abbreviations, Lossless, Sound terms

  • Sound card help and support.
  • The official FLAC website.