%general-entities; ]> FLAC is an audio CODEC similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed without losing any information. Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download size: &flac-size; Estimated Disk space required: &flac-buildsize; Estimated build time: &flac-time; , , and Install FLAC by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr libFLAC uses a function from the math library but is not linked with libm. Simply adding -lm to LIBS variable in the relevant Makefile corrects this problem. sed -i "s/^LIBS = /LIBS = -lm/" src/libFLAC/Makefile Continue with the installation: make && make install The FLAC package contains flac, metaflac, libFLAC, libFLAC++, libOggFLAC, libOggFLAC++ and libxmms-flac. flac is a command-line utility for encoding, decoding and converting FLAC files. metaflac is a program for listing, adding, removing, or editing metadata in one or more FLAC files. These libraries provide native FLAC and Ogg FLAC C/C++ APIs for programs utilizing FLAC. libxmms-flac is a plugin for XMMS.