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		The links page is the place for all things FLAC.  The 
#hardwarehardware  section lists the home stereo, car stereo, and portable devices that support the FLAC format.  The #musicmusic  section has links to artists, labels, and legal trading/sharing sites that offer works encoded in FLAC.  The #softwaresoftware  section is a loosely categorized list of http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.phpopen-source software  that supports the FLAC format.  Some of the most popular (some non-free) software can be found on the download page in the download.html#extrasextras section .
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
		
		
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		Below is a list of devices that support the FLAC format.  So far we only have experience with the Rio Reciever.  Manufacturers, if you would like your product reviewed here, feel free to 
mailto:jcoalson@users.sourceforge.netsend a unit .
	
	
		
Home stereo:	
	
		
http://www.request.com/us/AudioReQuest  music servers		
Digital Techniques' "iStereo" http://www.digitaltechniques.com/M300A_Overview.htmlM300A Digital Music Player 		
Escient's http://www.escient.com/FireBall servers (E2-40/160/300, DVDM-300) , networked home stereo components with hard-drives		
http://www.hermstedt.com/english/hifidelio/hifidelio.htmlHifidelio , a wireless home stereo component		
Meda Systems' http://www.medainc.com/Bravo servers 		
The http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/show_floor/product_locator/product_details.asp?prodid=5181MS300 Music Server  by McIntosh Laboratory		
http://www.phatnoise.com/products/homeplayer/index.phpPhatNoise Home Digital Media Player 		
http://www.mock.com/receiver/Rio Reciever  and Dell Digital Audio Receiver via http://sourceforge.net/projects/rioplay/RioPlay  or http://www.reza.net/rio/rrr.htmlRRR  clientsThis little device is a hacker's dream.  There are several open source clients available and since it boots its Linux distro over NFS you can write your own client.  They're not made anymore but you can still find them on ebay.		
http://www.rokulabs.com/Roku Soundbridge 		
http://www.skipjam.com/SkipJam 's networked audio/video devices		
http://www.slimdevices.com/Squeezebox and SliMP3  networked audio players		
Turtle Beach's http://www.turtlebeach.com/site/products/audiotron/producthome.aspAudioTron  via Bery Rinaldo's http://file-ext-map.sourceforge.net/Samba VFS Module 		
http://www.z500series.com/Zensonic Z500 Networked DVD Media Player 	
	
	
		
Car stereo:	
	
		
http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplayers/kenwood_music_keg.phpKenwood Music Keg 		
http://www.phatnoise.com/products/digitalmediaplayers/index.phpPhatBox 	
	
	
		
Portable/Handheld:	
	
		
http://www.jetaudio.com/products/iaudio/m3/iAUDIO M3 		
http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/shop/_templates/item_main_Rio.asp?model=220&cat=53Rio Karma 	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
		
		
music		
	
	
	
	
	
		Several labels and artists have adopted FLAC as a distribution format for their works, offering them for sale or free download online.  And many online trading communities that share legal, band-sanctioned recordings of live shows distribute them in FLAC format.  These are just some of them.
	
	
		
Artists	
	
		
http://www.bucketheadslivewedges.com/Buckethead 		
http://www.charliehunter.com/news/main.htmCharlie Hunter 		
http://www.c2b3live.com/Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains 		
http://stores.musictoday.com/store/dept.asp?band_id=1&dept_id=2640Dave Matthews Band 		
http://www.livemetallica.com/Metallica 		
http://www.livephish.com/Phish 		
http://www.primuslive.com/Primus 	
	
	
		
Labels and Stores	
	
		
http://www.aliveaudio.net/AliveAudio 		
http://www.atorecords.com/ATO Records  ( http://stores.musictoday.com/store/dept.asp?dept_id=2654&band_id=154Store )		
http://digitalsoundboard.net/DigitalSoundboard.net 		
http://www.disclogic.com/DiscLogic 		
http://www.edmdigital.com/catalog/index.php?ref=13EDM Digital 		
http://fastatmosphere.com/Fast Atmosphere 		
http://magnatune.com/Magnatune 		
http://www.mindawn.com/Mindawn 		
http://morganleahrecords.commorgan leah records 		
http://stores.musictoday.comMusictoday 		
http://www.opsound.org/Opsound 	
	
	
		
Venues:	
	
		
The http://www.livebonnaroo.com/catalog.htmlBonnaroo Music Festival 	
	
	
		
Communities:	
	
		
http://www.archive.org/archive.org , the Internet Archive:
		
			
http://www.archive.org/audio/etree.phpLive Music Archive 			
http://www.archive.org/audio/netlabels.phpNet Labels 			
http://www.archive.org/audio/collection.php?collection=opensource_audioOpen Source Audio 		
		
		
http://www.dxdt.org/archive/dxdt.org 		
http://wiki.etree.org/etree.org 		
The http://www.furthurnet.org/Furthur Network 	
	
	
	
	
	
	
	
		
		
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		A large and growing list of software supports the FLAC format.  This list is a sample of 
http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.phpopen-source software  supporting FLAC.  Some of the most popular non-free software can be found on the download page in the download.html#extrasextras section .
	
	
		
Audio encoders/decoders/converters/taggers:	
	
		
http://easytag.sourceforge.net/EasyTAG  versatile tagger		
http://entagged.sourceforge.net/Entagged , a Java audio file tagger		
http://etree-scripts.sourceforge.net/etree-scripts : command-line tools for verifying, tagging, converting, and burning lossless audio files		
http://www.uninformative.com/flacattack/Flacattack : 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.		
http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/flac.htmFLAC frontend  (Windows GUI)		
http://www.danrules.com/macflac/MacFLAC  Mac OS X FLAC distribution		
http://rawrec.sourceforge.net/rawrec/rawplay  recording/playback tools		
http://www.cyclooctane.com/sonice/sonice  FLAC to Vorbis transcoder		
http://www.lameb.fsnet.co.uk/Split_wav  WAV+CUE splitter		
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~cse/html/tag.htmlTag  comprehensive tagger ( http://home.wanadoo.nl/~w.speek/tag.htmfrontend  available)	
	
	
		
Audio editors:	
	
		
		
http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?showtopic=20145&Cooledit FLAC filter 		
http://www.etree.org/shnutils/shntool/shntool 	
	
	
		
Audio players/servers:	
	
		
http://www.hispalinux.es/~data/abcde.phpabcde  (A Better CD Encoder)		
http://alsaplayer.org/AlsaPlayer 		
http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/Aqualung , a Linux player		
http://bossogg.sourceforge.net/Boss Ogg : Audio client/server		
http://flac-tools.sourceforge.net/flac-tools : includes flac123 player		
http://www.giantdisc.com/GiantDisc : Linux jukebox + Palm remote		
http://jreceiver.sourceforge.net/JReceiver  servlet-based audio server		
http://www.monsterfang.com/MCinFLAC/Media Center FLAC plugin 		
http://musicpd.sourceforge.net/MPD , Music Player Daemon		
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer 		
http://musik.berlios.de/Musik : an open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and library		
http://www.mythtv.org/MythTV : Linux PVR and more		
http://ripperx.sourceforge.net/ripperX : X-based ripper/encoder		
http://www.lammerts.org/software/soepkiptng/Soepkip TNG  music playing daemon + web interface		
http://www.thomer.com/musicvault/Thomer's Music Vault : a Linux music server		
http://www.videolan.org/VideoLAN  client		
http://xine.sourceforge.net/Xine  multimedia player		
http://www.amb.org/xmcd/xmcd : X CD player		
http://www.xmms.org/XMMS : X MultiMedia System	
	
	
		
CD ripping/burning:	
	
		
http://arson.sourceforge.net/Arson : KDE ripper/burner		
http://bach.dynet.com/crip/index.htmlcrip : console ripper/encoder/tagger		
http://mareo.netfirms.com/MAREO  multi-format encoder for EAC		
http://rip.sourceforge.net/rip  command-line ripper/encoder		
http://www.suwald.com/ripit/ripit.htmlRipIT , a console-based front-end to several ripping and encoding tools	
	
	
		
Organizers:	
	
		
http://www.blinkenlights.ch/cgi-bin/fm.pl?get=ipodGNUpod  includes on-the-fly FLAC conversion to iPod		
http://mac.sourceforge.net/MPEG Audio Collection 		
http://www.rhythmbox.org/Rhythmbox , music management application for GNOME	
	
	
		
Developer tools and libraries:	
	
		
http://audiere.sourceforge.net/audiere , a high-level audio API		
http://search.cpan.org/~daniel/Audio-FLAC-0.8/FLAC.pmAudio::FLAC  perl module		
http://search.cpan.org/author/DANIEL/Audio-FLAC-Decoder-0.2/Decoder.pmAudio::FLAC::Decoder  perl module		
http://corecodec.org/projects/coreflacCoreFLAC : FLAC DirectShow filters		
http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/DirectShow filters  for encoding to/decoding from FLAC and Ogg FLAC (as well as Ogg Vorbis/Speex/Theora).		
http://getid3.sourceforge.net/getID3() : a PHP4 script for extracting metadata		
http://www.gstreamer.net/GStreamer  streaming media framework		
http://jflac.sourceforge.net/jFLAC : Java native FLAC decoder		
http://www.j-ogg.de/J-Ogg  Java libraries for Ogg decoding		
http://mediaxw.sourceforge.net/MediaXW  includes FLAC DirectShow filter		
http://math.berkeley.edu/~roconnor/MMIOMP3/MMIOFLAC , Multimedia IOProc for OS/2		
http://ptarmigan.sourceforge.net/Ptarmigan  media parser for XML		
http://www.icculus.org/SDL_sound/SDL_sound  audio add-on to SDL	
	
		
Scientific, Audio Analysis:	
	
		
http://hasas.sourceforge.net/HASAS  HydroAcoustical Signal Analysis System	
	
	
	
	
	
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