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  86         <P><A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/">PhatNoise</A> (makers of the <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplayers/index.php">PhatBox</A>, which also plays FLAC) just released their <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/products/homeplayer/index.php">Home Digital Media Player</A>.  It includes a DMS cartridge slot so you can pop out your FLAC tunes and pop 'em in your car.</P>
  87         <P>Slim Devices' new <A HREF="http://www.slimdevices.com/">Squeezebox</A>, the wireless follow-on to the SliMP3 networked audio player, is available and supports FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.</P>
  88         <P><A HREF="http://www.primussucks.com/">Primus</A> is offering soundboard recordings from 2003 Tour de Fromage in FLAC and MP3 on <A HREF="http://www.primuslive.com/">primuslive.com</A>.  More info <A HREF="http://blogcritics.org/archives/2003/10/23/135952.php">here</A> and <A HREF="http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2005669">here</A>.</P>
  89         <P>Independent record label <A HREF="http://magnatune.com/">Magnatune</A> is now <A HREF="http://forums.magnatune.com/read/messages?id=559079">offering their catalog in FLAC and Vorbis</A> in addition to MP3.</P>
  90         <P>Rio has announced a new portable, the <A HREF="http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=220&cat=53">Rio Karma</A>, which supports FLAC and Ogg Vorbis.</P>
  91         <P><A HREF="http://www.livephish.com/">livephish.com</A> is now offering recordings in FLAC format in addition to MP3.</P>
  92         <P><I>last updated 2003-Nov-19</I></P><!-- @@@ remember to update the date after changes -->
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 106                 <B><FONT SIZE="+2">what is FLAC?</FONT></B>
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 113                 FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec.  Grossly oversimplified, FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality.  This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see links to the right for supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file.
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 116                 FLAC is freely available and supported on most operating systems, including Windows, "unix" (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X, IRIX), BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga.  There are build systems for autotools, MSVC, Watcom C, and Project Builder.
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 119                 See the <A HREF="features.html">features page</A> for a complete list of features, or the <A HREF="comparison.html">comparison page</A> to see how FLAC compares with other lossless codecs.
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 122                 The FLAC project consists of:
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 126                 <LI>the stream format</LI>
 127                 <LI>reference encoders and decoders in library form</LI>
 128                 <LI><B><TT>flac</TT></B>, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files</LI>
 129                 <LI><B><TT>metaflac</TT></B>, a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files</LI>
 130                 <LI>input plugins for various music players</LI>
 131         </UL>
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 134                 When we say that FLAC is "Free" it means more than just that it is available at no cost.  It means that the specification of the format is fully open to the public to be used for any purpose (the FLAC project reserves the right to set the FLAC specification and certify compliance), and that neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding methods are covered by any known patent.  It also means that all the source code is available under open-source licenses.  It is the first truly open and free lossless audio format.
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 157                 Visit the <A HREF="download.html">download page</A> for links to the source code or pre-built binaries.
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 180                 The documentation is available online as well as in the distributions.  The general installation and usage documentation for <B><TT>flac</TT></B> and the plugins is <A HREF="documentation.html">here</A>.  For a detailed description of the FLAC format and reference encoder see the <A HREF="format.html">FLAC format page</A>.
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 203                 If you have an application that uses FLAC and would like it to be able to tag FLAC files with custom metadata, visit the <A HREF="id.html">registration page</A> to register an ID for your application.
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 230                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20031119">19-Nov-2003</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;PhatNoise's new Home Digital Media Player supports FLAC<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 231                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20031118">18-Nov-2003</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Slim's new 'Squeezebox' supports FLAC<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 232                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20031111">11-Nov-2003</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Primus offers live shows in FLAC<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 233                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20031013">13-Oct-2003</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Magnatune catalog available in FLAC<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 234                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20030811">11-Aug-2003</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;New Rio Karma supports FLAC<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 235                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20030623">23-Jun-2003</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;livephish.com offers FLAC shows<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 236                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20030209">09-Feb-2003</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;ReQuest adds FLAC support<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 237                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20030129">29-Jan-2003</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;FLAC joins Xiph.org!<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 238                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html#20030126">26-Jan-2003</A> :<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;Version 1.1.0 released<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 239                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="news.html">(all news)</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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 251                 <B>links</B>
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 256                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/flac/">SourceForge project page</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 257                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/flac">Freshmeat page</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 258                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><B>Hardware supporting FLAC:</B><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 259                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Home stereo:<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 260                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- <A HREF="http://www.request.com/us/">AudioReQuest</A> music servers<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 261                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/products/homeplayer/index.php">PhatNoise Home Digital Media Player</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 262                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- <A HREF="http://www.sonicblue.com/audio/rio/rio_receiver.asp">Rio Reciever</A> and Dell Digital Audio Receiver via <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/projects/rioplay/">RioPlay</A> client<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 263                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- <A HREF="http://www.slimdevices.com/">Squeezebox and SliMP3</A> networked audio players<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 264                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- Turtle Beach's <A HREF="http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audiotron/producthome.asp">AudioTron</A> via Bery Rinaldo's <A HREF="http://file-ext-map.sourceforge.net/">Samba VFS Module</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 265                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Car stereo:<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 266                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplayers/kenwood_music_keg.php">Kenwood Music Keg</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 267                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- <A HREF="http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplayers/index.php">PhatBox</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 268                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">Portable:<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 269                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- <A HREF="http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=220&cat=53">Rio Karma</A> portable<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 270                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><B>Communities supporting FLAC:</B><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 271                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.archive.org/">archive.org</A>, the Internet Archive:<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 272                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- <A HREF="http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.php">Live Music Archive</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 273                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- <A HREF="http://www.archive.org/audio/netlabels.php">Net Labels</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 274                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial">- <A HREF="http://www.archive.org/audio/collection.php?collection=opensource_audio">Open Source Audio</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 275                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://digitalsoundboard.net/">DigitalSoundboard.net</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 276                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://wiki.etree.org/">etree.org</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 277 <!-- no official FLAC support yet...
 278                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.furthurnet.com/">Furthur Network</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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 280                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.livephish.com/">livephish.com</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 281                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://magnatune.com/">Magnatune</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 282                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><B>Software supporting FLAC:</B><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 283                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.php">abcde</A> (A Better CD Encoder)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 284                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://alsaplayer.org/">AlsaPlayer</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 285                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://arson.sourceforge.net/">Arson</A>: KDE ripper/burner<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 286                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://search.cpan.org/~daniel/Audio-FLAC-0.5/lib/Audio/FLAC.pm">Audio::FLAC</A> perl module<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 287                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://bossogg.sourceforge.net/">Boss Ogg</A>: Audio client/server<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 288                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><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>)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 289                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://corecodec.org/projects/coreflac">CoreFLAC</A>: FLAC DirectShow filters<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 290                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://bach.dynet.com/crip/index.html">crip</A>: console ripper/encoder/tagger<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 291                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://easytag.sourceforge.net/">EasyTAG</A> versatile tagger<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 292                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/flac.htm">FLAC frontend</A> (Windows GUI)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 293                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://flac-tools.sourceforge.net/">flac-tools</A>: includes flac123 player<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 294                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://getid3.sourceforge.net/">getID3()</A>: a PHP4 script for extracting metadata<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 295                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.giantdisc.com/">GiantDisc</A>: Linux jukebox + Palm remote<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 296                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.gstreamer.net/">GStreamer</A> streaming media framework<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 297                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://hasas.sourceforge.net/">HASAS</A> HydroAcoustical Signal Analysis System<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 298                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.j-ogg.de/">J-Ogg</A> Java libraries for Ogg decoding<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 299                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://jreceiver.sourceforge.net/">JReceiver</A> servlet-based audio server<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 300                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.danrules.com/macflac/">MacFLAC</A> Mac OS X FLAC distribution<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 301                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://mareo.netfirms.com/">MAREO</A> multi-format encoder for EAC<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 302                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://mediaxw.sourceforge.net/">MediaXW</A> includes FLAC DirectShow filter<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 303                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/MMIOMP3/">MMIOFLAC</A>, Multimedia IOProc for OS/2<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 304                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://musicpd.sourceforge.net/">MPD</A>, Music Player Daemon<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 305                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://mac.sourceforge.net/">MPEG Audio Collection</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 306                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/">MPlayer</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 307                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.mythtv.org/">MythTV</A>: Linux PVR and more<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 308                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://ptarmigan.sourceforge.net/">Ptarmigan</A> media parser for XML<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 309                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://rawrec.sourceforge.net/">rawrec/rawplay</A> recording/playback tools<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 310                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.rhythmbox.org/">Rhythmbox</A>, music management application for GNOME<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 311                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://rip.sourceforge.net/">rip</A> command-line ripper/encoder<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 312                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.icculus.org/SDL_sound/">SDL_sound</A> audio add-on to SDL<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 313                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://shnutils.etree.org/shntool/">shntool</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 314                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.lammerts.org/software/soepkiptng/">Soepkip TNG</A> music playing daemon + web interface<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 315                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.cyclooctane.com/sonice/">sonice</A> FLAC to Vorbis transcoder<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 316                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.lameb.fsnet.co.uk/">Split_wav</A> WAV+CUE splitter<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 317                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/html/tag.html">Tag</A> comprehensive tagger (<A HREF="http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/tag.htm">frontend</A> available)<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 318                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.videolan.org/">VideoLAN</A> client<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 319                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://xine.sourceforge.net/">Xine</A> multimedia player<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 320                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.xmms.org/">XMMS</A>: X MultiMedia System<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 321 <!-- not released yet...
 322 -->
 323 <!-- no official FLAC support yet...
 324                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</A> Cross-Platform Audio Editor<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 325                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://swami.sourceforge.net/">Swami</A>: Sound font editor<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 326                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.rm-r.net/~meff/otto2/">otto2</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 327                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://cdwave.com/">CD Wave</A><BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
 328 -->
 329 <!-- not open source yet...
 330                 <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#EEEED4"><SMALL><FONT FACE="Lucida,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial"><A HREF="http://www.baudline.com/">Baudline</A> signal analyzer<BR></FONT></SMALL></TD></TR>
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