Downloads

If you are not sure what to download, see Using FLAC for instructions and guides on playing FLAC files, ripping CDs to FLAC, etc. This section is for the official FLAC tools. See the extras section below for third-party tools that support or use FLAC.

All source code and binaries are freely available and distributed under Open Source licenses. The codec libraries are distributed under Xiph.org's BSD license, and the plugins and command-line utilites (flac and metaflac) are distributed under the GPL. (For more information, see the license page.)

• Source code: tarballs for stable and beta releases; also includes documentation and build systems for Windows (MSVC++) and *nix, *BSD, OS/2, OS X (autotools). You can also take a look at the Development git repository
• Linux: most distributions have a FLAC package, use the package manager to get FLAC. If not, try rpmfind.net or Debian's packages
• Windows: FLAC for Windows (the file flac-X.Y.Z-win.zip contains both command-line tools and libaries, in 32 and 64 bit).
• Mac OS X: FLAC tools for OS X from Homebrew.
• Older versions: Older versions.

Extras

NOTE: these extras are not part of the FLAC project. Most (except those marked [$]) are freely available but distributed under their authors' own terms. Check out the links page for an even larger list of software supporting FLAC.

GUI encoding/decoding front-ends:

• Cross-platform
  • Free Audio Converter, a free GUI audio file converter
  • Clementine, a music player with the ability to transcode to and from FLAC
• Windows
  • ExactAudioCopy, an accurate CD ripper that convert to FLAC out-of-the-box
  • foobar2000, a convinient audio player that can convert and tag FLAC
  • [$] dBpowerAMP, a swiss army knife that can convert and play many formats, including FLAC.
  • [$] MediaMonkey can organize, encode, decode, edit tags, and rip to FLAC and other formats.
  • audiotester, can test a whole tree of FLAC files for errors and corruption
  • CUETools, a suite of tools for lossless audio/CUE sheet format conversion and verification
• MacOS
  • XLD a nice GUI ripper/converter/burner
  • MacFLAC, a frontend to the official FLAC tools
  • Clementine, a music player with the ability to transcode to and from FLAC
  • xACT, a FLAC distribution with a graphical front-end to FLAC and other formats
• Unix
  • Amarok, a music player with transcoding and tagging functionality for KDE
  • k3b is a CD ripper and burner for KDE
  • grip, a CD ripper for GNOME

Players and plugins:

• Mobile
  • Android has native support for FLAC since 3.1
• Cross-platform
  • Clementine, a player that is able to transcode as well
  • VLC, plays about any format
  • Audacity, a sound editor
  • FLAC plays in pretty much any web browser, like Chrome, Firefox, Opera or Edge
• Windows
  • VUPlayer, Winamp, XBMC
  • DirectShow: Xiph's OpenCodec for encoding to/decoding from FLAC (as well as Ogg Vorbis/Speex/Theora)
  • Windows Media Player plays FLAC without any changes in Windows 10 and newer
• MacOS
  • Cog
• Unix
  • AlsaPlayer, MPlayer, Xine, xmcd