flac-compat32: flac-compat32 (Free Lossless Audio Codec) flac-compat32: flac-compat32: FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec. Grossly oversimplified, flac-compat32: FLAC is similar to MP3, but lossless. "Free" means that the flac-compat32: specification of the stream format is in the public domain, and that flac-compat32: neither the FLAC format nor any of the implemented encoding/decoding flac-compat32: methods are covered by any patent. It also means that the sources for flac-compat32: libFLAC and libFLAC++ are available under the LGPL and the sources for flac-compat32: flac, metaflac, and the plugins are available under the GPL. flac-compat32: flac-compat32: FLAC was developed by Josh Coalson.