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[14] [15] As FLAC compresses losslessly, the decoded waveform is identical to the waveform before encoding. For two-channel stereo, the encoder may choose to joint-encode the audio. The channels are transformed into a side channel, which is the difference between the two input channels, and a mid channel, the sum of the two input channels.
Native support for FLAC was added to the Android operating system starting from the 3.1 'Honeycomb' update. [31] The feature came about after much public discussion on Android's Google Code development site. [32] However, FLAC support is limited to .FLAC files as Android does not support decode inside of other file containers (such as MP4 and ...
Linear pulse-code modulation (LPCM, generally only described as PCM) is the format for uncompressed audio in media files and it is also the standard for CD-DA; note that in computers, LPCM is usually stored in container formats such as WAV, AIFF, or AU, or as raw audio format, although not technically necessary.
Lossless audio coding formats such as FLAC and Apple Lossless are sometimes available, though at the cost of larger files. Uncompressed audio formats, such as pulse-code modulation (PCM, or .wav), are also sometimes used. PCM was the standard format for Compact Disc Digital Audio (CDDA).
Audio file icons of various formats. An audio file format is a file format for storing digital audio data on a computer system. The bit layout of the audio data (excluding metadata) is called the audio coding format and can be uncompressed, or compressed to reduce the file size, often using lossy compression.
Plex, for all supported platforms either through the platform player or PlexAmp [17] Qlab, for OS X; Quod Libet, multi-platform. Rhythmbox, for Linux; Winamp, supports gapless playback for MP3, M4A/AAC, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files (since version 5.3). Windows Media Player, has supported gapless ripping and playback of WMA since Windows Media 9 ...
The 'Music' category is merely a guideline on commercialized uses of a particular format, not a technical assessment of its capabilities. For example, MP3 and AAC dominate the personal audio market in terms of market share, though many other formats are comparably well suited to fill this role from a purely technical standpoint.
The Xiph.Org Foundation is a nonprofit organization that produces free multimedia formats and software tools. It focuses on the Ogg family of formats, the most successful of which has been Vorbis, an open and freely licensed audio format and codec designed to compete with the patented WMA, MP3 and AAC.