MacOS and Windows included these as Apple and Microsoft purchased appropriate licenses to use MP3 technology in their products. The license terms made it a dodgy act to encode music in MP3 format or to play that music without the proper licenses.
To legally use FLAC required a license from the Franhoffer Institute and payment of royalties. Their work is an response to the Franhoffer Institute’s patents and license fees surrounding the original MPEG work occurring at several university research institutes and in industry. The developers have a deep commitment to the digital storage and playback of music for enjoyment and for commerce. We’ll look at the motivation behind FLAC, the tools used to turn a CD into FLAC encoded tracks, and how to get the tools.įLAC is the free (as in liberty) audio lossless codec developed by the XIPH Foundation, a Greek pun on HiFi. In this article, the moocher describes how he transfers CD to FLAC to play using Roon Labs Roon Player.
The Moocher is a music collector with a growing CD and record collection.
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