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FLAC codec support for <audio> and WebAudio.

Category

Multimedia

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 56)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Enables support for the FLAC audio codec within the FLAC and Ogg containers for the HTML5 <audio> tag and WebAudio's decodeAudioData() API.

Standards & signals

• Specification: https://xiph.org/flac/format.html
• Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: Positive
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=93887

Docs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC https://xiph.org/flac/ogg_mapping.html https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioContext/decodeAudioData

Samples: http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/

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