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Limits RegistryJosh Coalson began FLAC in 2000, froze the bitstream with version 0.9 in March 2001 and released FLAC 1.0 on 20 July 2001. Typically reducing CD audio to 50-60% of its size with bit-exact reconstruction, FLAC is now maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation and supported natively by Windows, Android, iOS and macOS.
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Josh Coalson began FLAC in 2000, froze the bitstream with version 0.9 in March 2001 and released FLAC 1.0 on 20 July 2001. Typically reducing CD audio to 50-60% of its size with bit-exact reconstruction, FLAC is now maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation and supported natively by Windows, Android, iOS and macOS.
The year the first stable version of FLAC, the most widely used open lossless audio codec, was released.
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Limits Registry. LR-FLAC-1-0-RELEASE. Release of FLAC 1.0 lossless audio codec. 2026.