In this era of technology, we will come up with new things every day. At one time our phone was just a VGA camera. Today the Sony IMX camera is available on the mobile phone. Today our smartphone is a factory of thousands of features! Many of these features, as we know, are also unknown. Many of our smartphones now support Dolby, HiFi supports. If your smartphone supports 24-bit / 192kHz audio, you can easily get the soundtrack music service, play FLAC music.
What is FLAC
The short form of English Free Lossless Audio Codec is FLAC. Maybe you have understood a bit by the name of it! FLAC is a type of audio codec where all types of songs and music are kept without any type of lose or rip. It is completely different from the kind of audio format we have ever heard (such as MP3, VBR, ACC) or music. In ordinary audio formats, the pitch, dimension (high, middle, lower), treble etc. are reduced in many areas to reduce the size of the music or the size of the music. But in the case of FLAC you will hear a song or music that is prepared in the studio while maintaining it, in almost the same quality. Rather, it will be a lot more entertaining than the ordinary MP3, you will lost by hearing more deeper tone. Note here that the free audio media is discovered by Xiph.Org.
History of FLAC
After the MP3 audio codec was discovered in 1993, there was a radical change in the music world. Audio ripping starts at a lower resolution. As a result, this audio format became very popular. Then the internet was a golden deer, because in CDs or floppy disks, the format of the audio ripping started everywhere. But when the Internet came into the 21st century, when the Internet was a bit easier to use on the earth, when large-scale storage devices and smartphones began to arrive, people started giving priority to volume or size to quality. In such a case, in 2001, the audio format was discovered by the creators of the Xiph.Org Foundation, Jash Kovalan and Eric de Castro Lopeo, all creators of music. Although it was not so popular due to many obstacles at the beginning, the time began to move as slowly, the format started to be very popular. FLAC is one of the popular audio formats or codecs for millions of music fans from around the world to working with big music organizations, musicians and music engineers. Time to time, this audio codec has gained popularity in the 3rd world countries like us.
Pono Player, a high-end FLAC device
Some common features of FLAC
Lossless:
As mentioned earlier, the main feature of FLAC music is that there is no compromise with the music in the field of ripping. As a result, all the features or qualities of the construction are preserved in this FLAC. In a simple MP3 format where a song or music is made in 16 bits, a song or music is created at FLAC music format at least 24 bits. So FLAC is much more lousy than the normal MP3 format.
Differences between FLAC and MP3
Fast
FLAC is much faster than ordinary MP3 format. Dynamic and relatively recent codec is created in algorithm, and in this case you can experience fast music which is rich in FLAC music.
Hardware support
Generally the hardware that you need to run the normal MP3, in comparison to that, a good quality hardware needs to run FLAC files. Because of being relatively heavy, in this case, a good quality device is also required to run FLAC. To get good music experience, you need a good quality device. Besides, high quality hi-fi headphones are also needed for the highest level of experience.
Flexible metadata
Because of a lot of richness, you can change your metadata here as per your wish. Besides, this format is easily stream able. Anyone can bring it to the desired resolution by editing it. But for this it is also important to be a composer.
Open source
Due to being open source, there is no legal issue with the music format. Its popularity is increasing day by day for storage, CD ripping and burning.
How to play FLAC music
Usually the default music player of the smartphone does not support the FLAC file format. In order to play the FLAC file, you will have to download a music player that supports an FLAC file. Now let's talk about ways to run FLAC in different OS's.
Android
There is nothing to worry about. Playing FLAC music is the easiest to play in Android. Any android version above Android Honeycomb (3.1) natively supports the FLAC file codecs. If your phone's music player does not support this file format then you can easily download a music player that supports this file format from the Google Play Store. Most paid music players support this file format. Besides, the player will find the Player Pro, Bubble UPnP etc.
iOS
The default player of iOS does not support the FLAC file format. Because of this there are iTunes complications. If you want FLAC Player, Media Connect, Capriccio, these players can download FLAC music easily from the Apple Store.
Windows
The default music player of Windows operating system 10 supports FLAC music play.
Future of FLAC music
Today, the popularity of FLAC music is increasing day by day. Now a good quality smartphone is everyone’s hand. The mobile phone with the necessary hardware to run this music is near the purchasing ability of the people. Now many smartphones support 24-bit / 192kHz audio. In this case you only need a good quality ( Hi-Res) Headphones.
Since the FLAC has studio-level features, so many music fans are moving towards this format every day. Besides, if you want to convert a simple MP3 file to another, you'll lose more of its pitch level. But it is not possible in FLAC. Therefore, there is no comparison of FLAC to perform various types of music tests.
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