%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ 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 Valgrind Install FLAC by running the following commands: LIBS=-lm ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install If you run the make check tests, it will take a very long time (about 38 SBUs) and use about 80 MB of disk space. LIBS=-lm ./configure --prefix=/usr: libFLAC uses a function from the math library but is not linked with libm. Passing the environment variable to configure satisfies this dependency. 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.