Free Lossless Audio Codec, a lossless compressed audio format.
| 0x00000000 | 664C6143 | fLaC | 'fLaC' stream marker |
FLAC compresses audio with no quality loss — typically to 50–70% of the original — making it the choice for archival rips and audiophile libraries. Files begin with the ASCII marker 'fLaC'.
Have a file that might be FLAC? Identify it with the File Type Identifier — it reads the magic number locally, nothing is uploaded. Or browse all formats.