<LI>There is a Windows GUI appropriately called <AHREF="http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/flac.htm">FLAC frontend</A>.</LI>
<LI><AHREF="http://www.monkeysaudio.com/">Monkey's Audio</A> can be fooled into supporting FLAC as an external encoder; <AHREF="documentation.html#monkey">here's how</A>. If you like it, be sure to ask Matt to add support for FLAC officially!</LI>
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<LI><AHREF="http://www.nostatic.org/grip/">Grip</A> is a great ripping and encoding front end and can be easily configured to use flac.</LI>