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→Audio codecs
The '''Free Lossless Audio Codec''', abbreviated as FLAC, is, as the name suggests, an [[open source|open-source]] [[lossless]] digital [[audio codec]], and purports itself to be the fastest, most widely supported lossless audio codec<ref>http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html</ref>. FLAC has been incorporated under the banner of the [[Xiph.org Foundation]], along with [[Ogg Vorbis|Vorbis]], [[Speex]], [[Theora]] and others.
The '''Free Lossless Audio Codec''', abbreviated as FLAC, is, as the name suggests, an [[open source|open-source]] [[lossless]] digital [[audio codec]], and purports itself to be the fastest, most widely supported lossless audio codec<ref>http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html</ref>. FLAC has been incorporated under the banner of the [[Xiph.org Foundation]], along with [[Ogg Vorbis|Vorbis]], [[Speex]], [[Theora]] and others.
'''MP3''' (short for '''MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3''') is a set of audio decoding and encoding [[algorithm]]s created by Fraunhofer IIS in Germany, which can achieve high compression ratio with little loss in audio quality.
Although newer [[codec]]s can offer higher compression ratio or higher audio quality for a given ratio, MP3 has remained popular due to its near-universal compatibility.
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