flac123

flac-tools consists of flac123, a command-line program for playing FLAC audio files.

Download

Latest stable release: flac123-0.0.11.tar.gz Older releases are here.

Requires: libao, FLAC
Fedora users will need to install the libao-devel and flac-devel RPMs.

Tested on Ubuntu 7.0.4, FreeBSD 6.2, Mac OS 10.4.9 (with Macports 1.442).

Example

This is a screenshot of the Grip application configured to rip FLAC files. The resulting .flac files can be played with flac123 or the xmms plugin that comes with the baseline FLAC distribution. The Grip encoder command-line is set to:

-V -T "TITLE=%n" -T "ALBUM=%d" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%t" -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "GENRE=%G" -T "DATE=%y" -o %m %w

and the encoder file format is set to:

~/mp3-incoming/%A - %d/%a - %t - %n.flac

News

10 July 2007: Version 0.0.11 released. Bug fixes and FLAC 1.1.4 support.
08 May 2005: Version 0.0.9 released. SIGINT plays next track.
25 Feb 2005: Version 0.0.8 released. Fixed bug with 8 bit samples.
04 Mar 2004: Version 0.0.7 released. Supports gapless playback.

The objective of flac123 is to create a program that can be used in "remote" mode with the irmp3 project.

Please provide feedback via the help, bug, and feature request forums.