FLAC

Download Source:	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/flac/flac-1.3.0.tar.gz

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Introduction to FLAC

FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. It's an audio format similar to Ogg Vorbis (libvorbis) and MP3 (LAME), but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality.

Naturally, because FLAC is lossless it does not compress as well as Vorbis or MP3 (which are lossy), but unlike Vorbis and MP3, FLAC-encoded files can be safely converted into other audio codecs (including Vorbis and MP3) - precisely because no data was lost when the file was converted into FLAC in the first place. As such, even if you don't have the disk space to have your audio files in FLAC for normal use, FLAC works quite well for archiving them. That way you can convert them into whatever audio codec you may need in the future. Of course, if you do have the disk space, FLAC works as well as - or even better than - Vorbis and MP3 when it comes to audio playback.

Project Home Page: http://flac.sourceforge.net/

Dependencies

Optional

• libogg
• XMMS
• NASM
• DocBook Utils
• Doxygen
• Valgrind

Non-Multilib

Configure and compile the package:

LIBS=-lm ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make 

Install the package:

make install

Multilib

32Bit

Configure and compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD32}" LD="ld ${LD_BUILD32}" USE_ARCH=32 \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH32}" LIBS=-lm ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make 

Install the package:

make install

N32

Configure and compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILDN32}" CXX="g++ ${BUILDN32}" LD="ld ${LD_BUILDN32}" USE_ARCH=n32 \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATHN32}" LIBS=-lm ./configure --prefix=/usr \
    --libdir=/usr/lib32 &&
make 

Install the package:

make install

64Bit

Configure and compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" LD="ld ${LD_BUILD64}" USE_ARCH=64 \
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${PKG_CONFIG_PATH64}" LIBS=-lm ./configure --prefix=/usr \
    --libdir=/usr/lib64 &&
make 

Install the package:

make install