00audio
FLAC
Free Lossless Audio Codec
FLAC compresses audio losslessly to roughly half its WAV size — bit-for-bit identical when decoded. It is the format of choice for archiving CD rips and for hi-res music stores.
- Extension
- .flac
- MIME type
- audio/flac
01 Convert FLAC to something else
03 Related formats
Opening a .flac file
If you landed here because something handed you a .flac file and
nothing on your machine will open it, converting it to a format you already have a
reader for is usually faster than installing new software. Every conversion above runs
in this browser — the file is not uploaded, so it works on a locked-down work machine
and on a file you are not allowed to send anywhere.