Hi all, Sorry for completely forgetting to inform the mailing list about this. It has been too quiet here lately.
Anyway, RFC 9639 has been published, specifying the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) format. See https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9639 https://xiph.org/flac/2024/12/19/rfc-9639-published.html Although FLAC has had a specification document since 2000 and an open-source reference implementation filling in the details, this document should formally specify the format, such that implementers don’t have to look at the reference source code or browse the mailing list archives for details. This publication doesn’t change the FLAC format except explicitly adding support for 32-bit audio and adding restrictions to accommodate, see here for details. The main benefit this publication brings is that it should make writing a new FLAC decoder implementation from scratch much easier. It also provides assurance for archives wanting to use the FLAC format that their files remain decodable in the far future, in case FLAC ever becomes obsolete and its implementations unusable. Many thanks for all who participated in improving this document. Kind regards, Martijn van Beurden _______________________________________________ flac-dev mailing list flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
