FLAC should be and stay an open format. The source code is all either LGPL'd or GPL'd.
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FLAC should be lossless. This seems obvious but lossy compression seems to creep into every audio coder. This goal also means that flac should stay archival quality and be truly lossless for all input. Testing of releases should be thorough.
FLAC should be lossless. This seems obvious but lossy compression seems to creep into every audio codec. This goal also means that flac should stay archival quality and be truly lossless for all input. Testing of releases should be thorough.
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FLAC should yield respectable compression, on par or better than other lossless coders.
FLAC should yield respectable compression, on par or better than other lossless codecs.
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FLAC should allow at least realtime decoding on even modest hardware.