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  56                 All source code and binaries are freely available and distributed under <a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php">Open Source</a> licenses.  The codec libraries are distributed under Xiph.org's BSD license, and the plugins and command-line utilites (<span class="commandname">flac</span> and <span class="commandname">metaflac</span>) are distributed under the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.html">GPL</a>.  If you would like to redistribute parts or all of FLAC under different terms, <a href="mailto:jcoalson@users.sourceforge.net">contact Josh Coalson</a>.  (For more information, see the <a href="license.html">license page</a>.)
  57                 <ul>
  58                         <li>
  59                                 <b>Linux</b>
  60                                 <ul>
  61                                         <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&amp;package_id=12676">FLAC for Fedora Core 4</a></li>
  62                                         <li><a href="http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=flac&amp;searchon=names&amp;subword=1&amp;version=all&amp;release=all">FLAC 1.x Debian packages</a></li>
  63                                         <li>RPMs can be found on <a href="http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/soundapps.html">Planet CCRMA</a> and <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=flac">rpmfind.net</a></li>
  64                                 </ul>
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  67                                 <b>Mac OS X</b>
  68                                 <ul>
  69                                         <li><!-- <a href="http://www.danrules.com/macflac/"><a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15883"> --><a href="http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/MacFLAC.shtml">MacFLAC with installer and GUI front-end</a> (source code not available)</li>
  70                                         <li><a href="http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16458">FLACer</a> (source code not available)</li>
  71                                         <li><a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21952">xACT with installer and GUI front-end</a> (source code included)</li>
  72                                         <li><a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/flac">FLAC Fink package</a> for use with <a href="http://fink.sourceforge.net/">Fink</a></li>
  73                                         <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&amp;package_id=32318">FLAC for OS X (no installer)</a></li>
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  77                                 <b>Windows</b>
  78                                 <ul>
  79                                         <li><a href="http://cyberial.com/flacinstaller.asp">FLAC for Windows with installer</a> (<a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/flac/flac113a.exe?use_mirror=superb-west">alternate link</a>). <b>NOTE: </b>Several virus scanners are reporting that FLAC contains a trojan; this is a FALSE POSITIVE.  For more info see <a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/index.php?id=2&amp;backPID=2&amp;tt_news=14">here</a>, <a href="http://servicenews.symantec.com/cgi-bin/displayArticle.cgi?article=29991&amp;group=symantec.support.generic.virus_corporate.general&amp;tpre=ent">here</a>, <a href="http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=164312">here</a>.</li>
  80                                         <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&amp;package_id=12675">FLAC for Windows (tools only)</a></li>
  81                                 </ul>
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  84                                 <b>Other</b>
  85                                 <ul>
  86                                         <li><a href="http://amiga.sourceforge.net/">FLAC package for Amiga</a></li>
  87                                         <li><a href="http://freeware.sgi.com/">FLAC packages for IRIX</a>.</li>
  88                                         <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&amp;package_id=12841">FLAC for Solaris 2.7</a></li>
  89                                         <li>Unofficial port of the <a href="http://arisme.free.fr/ports/flac.php">FLAC libraries to Windows CE (WinCE)</a></li>
  90                                 </ul>
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  93                                 <b>Source code</b>
  94                                 <ul>
  95                                         <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478&amp;package_id=12677">FLAC full source code</a>; also includes documentation and build systems for Windows (MSVC++) and *nix,*BSD,OS/2,OS X (autotools)</li>
  96                                         <li><a href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/flac-cvsroot.tar.bz2">Nightly CVS tarball</a>; this is the actual CVS repository used for development</li>
  97                                 </ul>
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  99                         <li>
 100                                 <b>Older versions</b>
 101                                 <ul>
 102                                         <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13478">Older versions of FLAC</a> available from SourceForge</li>
 103                                 </ul>
 104                         </li>
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 118                 <b>NOTE: </b> these extras are not part of the FLAC project.  Most (except those marked [$]) are freely available but distributed under their authors' own terms.<br />
 119                 <br />
 120                 <b>NOTE: </b> make sure to check out the <a href="links.html">links page</a> for a large list of open-source software supporting FLAC.<br />
 121                 <br />
 122                 <b>GUI encoding/decoding front-ends:</b>
 123                 <ul>
 124                         <li>
 125                                 <b>Windows</b>
 126                                 <ul>
 127                                         <li><a href="http://www.legroom.net/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=Open_Source&amp;file=index&amp;page=software&amp;app=autoflac">AutoFLAC</a> for automated ripping and encoding to FLAC with EAC (ExactAudioCopy); also has a write mode for burning back to CD for an exact copy</li>
 128                                         <li><a href="http://www.dbpoweramp.com/">dBpowerAMP</a>, a swiss army knife that can convert and play many formats, including FLAC.</li>
 129                                         <li><a href="http://www.uninformative.com/flacattack/">Flacattack</a>: an all-in-one tool that works with ExactAudioCopy to encode a CD image to FLAC, embed the cuesheet, add ReplayGain, create lossy files, etc. all in a customizable directory structure.</li>
 130                                         <li><a href="http://www.rarewares.org/lossless.html">FLACdrop</a>, an Oggdrop-like frontend for Windows, or the even more versatile <a href="http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jfe1205/">oggdropXPd</a>.</li>
 131                                         <li><a href="http://members.home.nl/w.speek/flac.htm">FLAC frontend</a>, a Windows GUI, or the even more versatile <a href="http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/multi.htm">Multi frontend</a>.</li>
 132                                         <li><a href="http://www.vuplayer.com/other.htm">FLACTester</a>, can test a whole tree of FLAC files for errors and generate a report.</li>
 133                                         <li><a href="http://home.vxu.se/mdati00/frontah/">Frontah</a>, a new frontend to many codecs, including FLAC.  Still in beta but has good reviews.</li>
 134                                         <li><a href="http://www.germanixsoft.de/">GX::Transcoder</a></li>
 135                                         <li><a href="http://mareo.netfirms.com/">MAREO</a> is a "virtual" encoder that can be used with ExactAudioCopy to encode to multiple formats (including FLAC) at once while ripping.</li>
 136                                         <li><a href="http://www.monkeysaudio.com/">Monkey's Audio</a> can be fooled into supporting FLAC as an external encoder; <a href="documentation.html#monkey">here's how</a>.</li>
 137                                         <li><a href="http://www.unifront.boereck.de/">UniversalFront</a>, an encoding/decoding/transcoding GUI that is also scriptable.</li>
 138                                         <li><a href="http://music.yahoo.com/musicengine/">Yahoo! Music Engine</a></li>
 139                                 </ul>
 140                         </li>
 141                         <li>
 142                                 <b>Unix</b>
 143                                 <ul>
 144                                         <li><a href="http://www.nostatic.org/grip/">Grip</a> is a great ripping and encoding front end and can be easily configured to use flac.  See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1634089&amp;forum_id=5443">this message</a> on how to configure Grip for FLAC.</li>
 145                                         <li><a href="http://www.amb.org/xmcd/">xmcd</a> is a CD ripper with CDDB support as well as a player.</li>
 146                                 </ul>
 147                         </li>
 148                         <li>
 149                                 <b>Mac OS X</b>
 150                                 <ul>
 151                                         <li><a href="http://www.lexial.ca/alex/applescripts/iTunes_to_flac.html">iTunes-to-FLAC</a>, an AppleScript for converting between FLAC and WAVE/AIFF with tagging via iTunes.</li>
 152                                         <li><!-- <a href="http://www.danrules.com/macflac/"><a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15883"> --><a href="http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/MacFLAC.shtml">MacFLAC</a>, a FLAC distribution which also includes nice graphical front-end.</li>
 153                                         <li><a href="http://sbooth.org/Max/">Max</a>, a CD ripper and encoder that supports several formats including FLAC.</li>
 154                                         <li><a href="http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MediaRage.html">MediaRage</a>, for editing FLAC metadata (also supports Vorbis and other formats).</li>
 155                                         <li><a href="http://members.rogers.com/beamsplitter/">RipBeak</a> is a nice GUI encoding frond-end that supports FLAC as well as Vorbis and MP3.</li>
 156                                         <li><a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21952">xACT</a>, another FLAC distribution with a graphical front-end to FLAC and other formats.</li>
 157                                 </ul>
 158                         </li>
 159                         <li>
 160                                 <b>Pocket PC</b>
 161                                 <ul>
 162                                         <li>[$] <a href="http://www.gidluckmastering.com/live2496.html">Live2496</a>, a program that can record 24-bit audio up to 96kHz on a Pocket PC (using <a href="http://www.core-sound.com/">Core Sound's PDAudio interface</a>) can record directly to FLAC.</li>
 163                                 </ul>
 164                         </li>
 165                 </ul>
 166                 <b>CD burning:</b>
 167                 <ul>
 168                         <li>
 169                                 <b>Windows</b>
 170                                 <ul>
 171                                         <li><a href="http://www.burnatonce.com/">burnatonce</a>, a CD burning GUI that wraps around <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdrdao/">cdrdao</a> and <a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/cdrecord/">mkisofs</a>.</li>
 172                                         <li><a href="http://www.burrrn.net/?page_id=4">Burrrn</a> supports burning CDs from cuesheets directly from many formats, including FLAC, and supports most tag formats.</li>
 173                                         <li><a href="http://www.cdwave.com/">CD Wave</a>, a CD authoring tool that can read and write FLAC.</li>
 174                                         <li><a href="http://dbpoweramp.com/cdwriter.htm">dBpowerAMP CD Writer</a>.</li>
 175                                         <li>[$] <a href="http://www.nero.com/">Nero</a> (as a <a href="http://neroplugins.cd-rw.org/">plugin</a>); allows you to burn FLAC files directly to audio CDs.</li>
 176                                 </ul>
 177                                 <b>Mac OS X</b>
 178                                 <ul>
 179                                         <li>[$] Roxio's <a href="http://www.roxio.com/en/products/toast/index.jhtml">Toast 7 Titanium</a> supports encoding to FLAC and CD/DVD burning from FLAC.</li>
 180                                 </ul>
 181                         </li>
 182                         <li>
 183                                 <b>Unix</b>
 184                                 <ul>
 185                                         <li><a href="http://arson.sourceforge.net/">Arson</a>, a front-end to various CD burning and ripping tools.</li>
 186                                 </ul>
 187                         </li>
 188                 </ul>
 189                 <b>Players and plugins:</b>
 190                 <ul>
 191                         <li>
 192                                 <b>Windows</b>
 193                                 <ul>
 194                                         <!-- case's page disappeared, use temporary links
 195                                         <li><a href="http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/files/cool_flac.zip">Cooledit FLAC filter</a> (source code <a href="http://www.saunalahti.fi/cse/files/cool_flac_src.zip">here</a>).</li>
 196                                         -->
 197                                         <li>[$] <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/main.html">Adobe Audition a.k.a. CoolEdit</a> (as a <a href="http://www.vuplayer.com/other.htm">plugin</a>, alternate plugin by Case <a href="http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=20145">here</a>)</li>
 198                                         <li><a href="http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/">Apollo</a> (as a <a href="http://koti.welho.com/hylinen/apollo/Plug-ins.html">plugin</a>)</li>
 199                                         <li><a href="http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dbpoweramp.htm">dbPowerAMP</a> (as a <a href="http://www.dbpoweramp.com/codec-central-flac.htm">plugin</a>)</li>
 200                                         <li>DirectShow: <a href="http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">Illiminable's DirectShow filters</a> for encoding to/decoding from FLAC and Ogg FLAC (as well as Ogg Vorbis/Speex/Theora).</li>
 201                                         <li>DirectShow: <a href="http://corecodec.org/projects/coreflac">CoreFLAC</a>: DirectShow filters for encoding to/decoding from FLAC.</li>
 202                                         <li><a href="http://www.foobar2000.org/">foobar2000</a> (as a <a href="http://www.foobar2000.org/components.html#foo_flac">plugin</a>)</li>
 203                                         <li>[$] <a href="http://www.jrmediacenter.com/">Media Center</a>/<a href="http://www.mediajukebox.com/">Media Jukebox</a> (as <a href="http://mcplugins.sourceforge.net/">plugins</a>).  Source code is available.</li>
 204                                         <li><a href="http://www.phsoft.nl/">Mp3CoolPlay-X</a> (as a <a href="http://www.phsoft.nl/?id=flacplginf">plugin</a>)</li>
 205                                         <li><a href="http://www.quinnware.com/">Quintessential Player</a> (as a <a href="http://www.quinnware.com/list_plugins.php?plugin=126">plugin</a>)</li>
 206                                         <li><a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html">VLC</a></li>
 207                                         <li><a href="http://www.vuplayer.com/vuplayer.htm">VUPlayer</a></li>
 208                                         <li><a href="http://www.winamp.com/">Winamp</a> has native FLAC support</li>
 209                                         <li>Windows Media Player, using either the <a href="http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/">Illiminable</a> or <a href="http://corecodec.org/projects/coreflac">CoreFLAC</a> DirectShow filters, and FLAC tag support with <a href="http://wmptagext.sourceforge.net/">WMP Tag Support Extender</a> (<a href="http://www.losslessaudioblog.com/?p=40">guide</a>)</li>
 210                                         <li><a href="http://un4seen.com/xmplay.html">XMPlay</a> (as a <a href="http://un4seen.com/download.cgi?xmp-flac">plugin</a>)</li>
 211                                         <li><a href="http://music.yahoo.com/musicengine/">Yahoo! Music Engine</a></li>
 212                                 </ul>
 213                         </li>
 214                         <li>
 215                                 <b>Mac OS X</b>
 216                                 <ul>
 217                                         <li><a href="http://cogosx.sourceforge.net/">Cog</a></li>
 218                                         <li><a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/cynthiune/">Cynthiune</a> music player</li>
 219                                         <li><a href="http://arcticlounge.com/maltx/">MacAmp Lite X</a></li>
 220                                         <li><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/steve_bryan/Personal12.html">PureMusic Audio Player</a></li>
 221                                         <li><a href="http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html">VLC</a></li>
 222                                         <li><a href="http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/">XiphQT</a> component for Quicktime/iTunes that supports Ogg FLAC</li>
 223                                 </ul>
 224                         </li>
 225                         <li>
 226                                 <b>Java</b>
 227                                 <ul>
 228                                         <li><a href="http://jflac.sourceforge.net/">jFLAC</a>: a Java native-FLAC decoder library and player application.</li>
 229                                         <li><a href="http://www.j-ogg.de/">J-Ogg</a>: Java libraries for Ogg decoding, including Ogg FLAC.</li>
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