Since its inception, the digital audio industry has not experienced a particular lack of formats that were used to store and reproduce it. Of course, the average MP3 player is best known to the average user, but to this day it is being pressed by other, better and more modern codecs.
Currently, one of the most common among music lovers is the FLAC format. Its distinguishing feature is a special compression algorithm, in which almost no quality loss occurs., «» , . Hi-End, .
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This codec includes Streaminfo metadata packets, frames, and four FLAC bytes. First there are bytes that act as the identifier of the entire stream, after which metadata is decoded, followed by the compressed sound itself. The metadata itself and the audio stream are constantly alternating among themselves. In addition, the incoming data stream is divided into blocks, after which they are independently encoded.After encoding, they are compressed, they are "stacked" in frames. Even better, the FLAC format involves the use of blocks of different sizes, which allows you to maintain excellent sound quality.
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