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Below are some brands that offer devices supporting the FLAC format.

Home stereo:
Marantz	Sonos	B&O	Integra
Denon	NAD	Onkyo	Pioneer
Cambridge Audio	Yamaha	Panasonic VIERA	Samsung
Sony	LG	Naim audio	Popcorn Hour
OPPO Digital	Dune HD	Olive	ReQuest
Mede8er	Synology	QNAP	A.C. Ryan
Netgear	Western Digital	Seagate	Boxee
	ASUS	Fritz!box
Car audio:
Citroën	Kenwood	JVC	Clarion
Tesla	Pioneer

Portable/Handheld:
Android 3.1+ devices	RIM BlackBerry	Cowon	Creative ZEN	HiFiMAN
Sandisk Sansa	TrekStor	iRiver	Archos	Latte

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.

Individual artists

• The Beatles
• Bruce Springsteen
• Dave Matthews Band
• Metallica
• My Morning Jacket
• Nine Inch Nails
• Phish
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• They Might Be Giants
• Umphrey's McGee
• Widespread Panic

Labels and Stores

• 2L - the Nordic Sound
• 4AD
• 7digital
• Accidtech.com
• Acousence
• Analekta
• Alphabasic
• ATO Records
• Baboom
• Bandcamp
• Bleep.com
• Boomkat
• Burning Shed
• B&W Society of Sound
• CDBaby
• Deutsche Grammophon
• DigitalSoundboard.net
• digital-tunes
• eClassical
• Experimedia
• Fast Atmosphere
• FestivaLink.net
• FretTunes
• Gimell Records
• Good Old Games
• GubeMusic
• HDtracks
• Indie Royale
• Indietorrent
• Klicktrack
• Linn Records
• LiveDownloads
• LivePhish.com
• Loudr
• Magnatune
• Matador Records Store
• Merge Records
• MunckMusic
• MusicZeit
• Naimlabel
• Nonesuch records
• nyctaper
• PONO
• Pristine Classical
• Psymbolic
• Qobuz
• RareNoiseRecords
• Records on Ribs
• Rough Trade Store
• SomaRecords.com
• Universal Music
• WiMP
• XL Records
• Zunior.com

Communities:

• archive.org, the Internet Archive:
  • Live Music Archive
  • Net Labels
  • Open Source Audio
• The Avant Garde Project
• etree.org
• Miller Center of Public Affairs: 33 years of presidential recordings
• Montreal Sound Map

A large and growing list of software supports the FLAC format. This list is a sample of software supporting FLAC. The most popular software can be found on the download page in the extras section as well.

Independent third-party format implementations

• Flake, which was in turn the basis for the FFmpeg encoder implementation. The FFmpeg decoder implementation is independent as well
• FLACCL, formerly FLACUDA, is a FLAC encoder that uses openCL to speed up encoding
• Audiocogs FLAC.js, an implementation of a decoder fully written in Javascript, loosely based on the FFmpeg decoder implementation

Audio encoders/decoders/converters/taggers:

• Free Audio Converter, a free GUI audio file converter and CD ripper
• mp3tag - A free tag editor which supports editing tags, autotagging from online databases, cover art, and more.
• EasyTAG versatile tagger
• Entagged, a Java audio file tagger
• etree-scripts: command-line tools for verifying, tagging, converting, and burning lossless audio files
• FLAC frontend (Windows GUI)
• Flac-Jacket: a set of scripts for creating FLAC files and an HTML index
• FLACTAG: tags single album FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets using data from the MusicBrainz service
• MacFLAC Mac OS X FLAC distribution
• FLACer for Mac OS X
• MP3FS, a read-only FUSE filesystem which can transcode FLAC to MP3 on the fly
• rawrec/rawplay recording/playback tools
• XLD a nice GUI ripper/converter/burner

Audio editors:

• plugin for Adobe Audition (alternate plugin here)
• shntool
• Audacity, a sound editor

Audio players/servers:

• AlsaPlayer
• Amarok
• Aqualung, a Linux player
• aTunes
• Beep Media Player
• DisOrder: a multi-user software jukebox
• flac-tools: includes flac123 player
• JReceiver servlet-based audio server
• Media Center FLAC plugins
• MPD, Music Player Daemon
• MPlayer
• Muine: a music player for GNOME
• MythTV: Linux PVR and more
• Play, a versatile open-source player/music manager for OS X that supports FLAC and Ogg FLAC
• ripperX: X-based ripper/encoder
• Symbian OggPlay, an audio player for Symbian OS phones
• VideoLAN client
• Xine multimedia player
• xmcd: X CD player
• XMMS: X MultiMedia System

CD ripping/burning:

• abcde (A Better CD Encoder)
• CDex: ripper for Windows can rip to FLAC via external command
• Exact Audio Copy (EAC) - The official download ships with FLAC
• Free Audio Converter, a free GUI audio file converter and CD ripper
• grip, a CD ripper for GNOME
• K3B: CD/DVD creator for Linux
• Max, a CD ripper and encoder for OS X
• rip command-line ripper/encoder
• VortexBox, an easy-to-install music server/jukebox OS
• XLD a nice GUI ripper/converter/burner

Organizers:

• Ampache, a PHP-based tool for managing, updating and playing files via a web interface
• aTunes
• GNUpod includes on-the-fly FLAC conversion to iPod
• MPEG Audio Collection
• netjukebox, a web-based Winamp/httpQ media jukebox
• prokyon3, a Qt-based music manager and tag editor
• Rhythmbox, music management application for GNOME

Plugins, developer tools and libraries:

• audiere, a high-level audio API
• FLAC perl modules
• FLAC DirectShow encoding and decoding filters
• FLACDotNet, a .NET wrapper around libFLAC
• getID3(): a PHP script for extracting metadata
• Jaudiotagger Java audio tagging library
• GStreamer streaming media framework
• jFLAC: Java native FLAC decoder
• J-Ogg Java libraries for Ogg decoding
• libfishsound: API for decoding and encoding audio data using Xiph.Org codecs (FLAC, Speex and Vorbis)
• MediaXW includes FLAC DirectShow filter
• MMIOFLAC, Multimedia IOProc for OS/2
• Ptarmigan media parser for XML
• SDL_sound audio add-on to SDL
• WMP Tag Support Extender plugs in to Windows Media Player to allow access to FLAC tags
• XiphQT component for Quicktime/iTunes that supports Ogg FLAC playback

Scientific, Audio Analysis:

• HASAS HydroAcoustical Signal Analysis System