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	<P>FLAC 1.0.2 is out.  The bug that was causing some of the plugins to crash sporadically has been fixed.  That is all.  See <A HREF="news.html#20011203">here</A> for details.</P>
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	FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec.  Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless.  The FLAC project consists of:
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		<LI>the stream format</LI>
		<LI><B><TT>libFLAC</TT></B>, which implements reference encoders and decoders</LI>
		<LI><B><TT>flac</TT></B>, a command-line wrapper around libFLAC to encode and decode .flac files</LI>
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		"Free" means that the specification of the stream format is in the public domain (the FLAC project reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any patent.  It also means that the source for libFLAC is available under the <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.html">LGPL</A> and the sources for flac and the plugins are available under the <A HREF="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html">GPL</A>.
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		FLAC compiles on many platforms: most Unixes (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X), Windows, and OS/2.  There are build systems for autoconf/automake, MSVC, Watcom C, and Project Builder.
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		The documentation is available online as well as in the distributions.  The general installation and usage documentation for flac and the plugins is <A HREF="documentation.html">here</A>.  For a detailed description of the FLAC format and reference encoder see the <A HREF="format.html">FLAC format page</A>.
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		I developed FLAC because no audio compression format I could find did everything I needed.  Since I couldn't mash them all together (most are closed-source), I solidified all my requirements (now the FLAC <A HREF="goals.html">goals</A>) and wrote the first implementation.  I intended to open-source it from the beginning for two reasons: 1) so that people who knew more about audio compression than me could help improve it; and 2) I wanted to give something back to the OS community, whose huge body of work I rely on so much.
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		So I started the FLAC project on SourceForge as soon as I had a relatively complete first implementation.  Now I'm the maintainer of the FLAC project.  You can get in touch with me about it through the <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=13478">mailing list</A> or <A HREF="mailto:jcoalson@users.sourceforge.net">directly</A>
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		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20011203">03-Dec-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Version 1.0.2 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20010128">28-Jan-2001</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;FLAC gets FASTER for version 0.6<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/flac/">SourceForge project page</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/flac">Freshmeat page</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.firstpr.com.au/audiocomp/lossless/">First Principles</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><B>S/W that uses FLAC:</B><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/misc/abcde-flac.tar.gz">Patch</A> for <A HREF="http://lly.org/~rcw/abcde/page/">abcde</A> (A Better CD Encoder)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.baudline.com/">Baudline</A> signal analyzer<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/flac.htm">FLAC frontend</A> (Windows GUI)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://flac-tools.sourceforge.net/">flac-tools</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.gstreamer.net/">GStreamer</A> streaming media framework<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://rawrec.sourceforge.net/">rawrec/rawplay</A> recording/playback tools<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.icculus.org/SDL_sound/">SDL_sound</A> audio add-on to SDL<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://shnutils.etree.org/shntool/modules/format_flac.c">Patch</A> for <A HREF="http://shnutils.etree.org/shntool/">shntool</A> (<A HREF="http://shnutils.etree.org/shntool/modules/flac-README">README</A>)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.lammerts.org/software/soepkiptng/">Soepkip TNG</A> music playing daemon + web interface<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.cyclooctane.com/sonice/">sonice</A> FLAC to Vorbis transcoder<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.lameb.fsnet.co.uk/">Split_wav</A> WAV+CUE splitter<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</A> Cross-Platform Audio Editor<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://smurf.sourceforge.net/">Smurf</A> Sound Font Editor<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
		<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://cdwave.com/">CD Wave</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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