This is a list of computer hardware and software which supports FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), a file format designed for lossless compression of digital audio.
Although some software supports FLAC natively "out of the box", some require installation of a third-part FLAC filter or plug-in.
| Name | Description | Platform | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | Mac OS X | Linux | ||
| Adobe Audition | Does not natively support FLAC but can use a third-party filter. | Yes[25] | No | No |
| aTunes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| ALLPlayer | Yes | No | No | |
| Audacious | No | No | Yes | |
| Audacity | Possible since version 1.2.5.[26]
Full support since 2.0.0[27] |
Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cakewalk SONAR | Producer Edition version 7 and later. | Yes | No | No |
| CDex | Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. | Yes | No | No |
| Easy Media Creator | Yes | No | No | |
| Exact Audio Copy | Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. | Yes | No | No |
| FFmpeg | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| foobar2000 | With external encoder | Yes | No | No |
| fre:ac | Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GoldWave | Yes | No | No | |
| GOM Player | Yes | No | No | |
| Grip | Grip is a CD-player and CD-ripper for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built-in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). | No | No | Yes |
| JetAudio | Yes | No | No | |
| Juce | Yes | Yes | No | |
| JRiver Media Center | Since version 12.0.3xx | Yes | No | No |
| Media Go | Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. | Yes | No | No |
| MediaCoder | Yes[citation needed] | No | No | |
| MediaMonkey | Yes | No | No | |
| MusicBee | Via flac.exe that is shipped with MusicBee and available separately at flac.sourceforge.net | Yes | No | No |
| Nero Burning ROM | With optional external filter plug-in. | Yes | No | No |
| REAPER | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Sound Forge | Version 9 and later | Yes | No | No |
| Vegas Pro 8, Vegas Pro 9 | Yes | No | No | |
| Toast Titanium | Beginning with version 7 | No | Yes | No |
| Total Recorder | Standard and Professional editions | Yes | No | No |
| VLC media player | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| WaveLab | Added in version 7.1 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Winamp | Since 5.35 uses Flake.[28] Versions before 5.54 generate an incorrect MD5 checksum.[29] | Yes | No | No |
| Windows Media Player | Added in Windows 10. Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. | Yes | No | No |
| XMedia Recode | Yes | No | No | |
| Yahoo! Music Jukebox | Yes | No | No | |
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FLAC is natively supported on IOS 11, including all "iDevices", but only via the Files (Apple) app or iCloud Drive. iTunes does not support FLAC, with Apple only offering native support for their own similar ALAC lossless audio format. Third-party applications are available in the App Store which enable FLAC playback.
Jailbroken iOS devices could play it through the applications from Cydia.[citation needed]
As with their iOS operating system, Apple's iTunes software on macOS cannot natively playback FLAC audio files. One exception to this is with the use of a third-party software plug-in, which currently allows iTunes software to playback a small percentage of Ogg-based FLAC files. Computers that run on the MacOS High Sierra operating can play Flac files via QuickTime Player. Older versions require third-party non-iTunes media players in order to playback FLAC files, or to encode into FLAC files.
Native support for FLAC was added to the Android operating system starting from the 3.1 'Honeycomb' update.[31] The feature came about after much public discussion on Android's Google Code development site.[32] However, FLAC support is limited to .FLAC files as Android does not support decode inside of other file containers (such as MP4 and MKV).[33]
Prior to the Android 3.1 update, Samsung included native support on over 32 Android devices, including their Galaxy line of phones.[21] In addition, other prior Android device users could only (and still today) resort to using third-party applications (apps) available for Android such as PowerAMP, andLess, Astro Player or otherwise alternatively turn to installing custom system ROMs such as CyanogenMod. Note that some of these third-party applications, especially PowerAMP, decode FLAC and other formats using FFmpeg and therefore do not rely on the operating system to provide that functionality.
The Windows Mobile operating system is able to support playback of FLAC files through the use of plugins or third-party applications such as TCMP and others.[34] On Windows Phone 7 (WP7) there is no FLAC support available in the default Zune media player[35][36] though playback is supported in third-party applications like a Flac Player.[37] Similar goes for Windows Phone 8.
Microsoft Windows 10 supports FLAC decoding in Windows Media Player and other software that uses Windows platform APIs for audio decoding.[38]