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Add to SafariWhen comparing Free Lossless Audio Codec vs MP3, the Slant community recommends Free Lossless Audio Codec for most people. In the question“What is the best audio codec for music” Free Lossless Audio Codec is ranked 2nd while MP3 is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose Free Lossless Audio Codec is:
The FLAC format is free to use and fully open source.
Question Ranking
Pros
Pro FOSS
The FLAC format is free to use and fully open source.
Pro Lossless
Retains all of the original audio data.
Pro Universal
Being a mature format, its compatibility is universal and its use is widespread.
Cons
Con Compatibility
Not (yet) compatible with many music player devices, primarily older ones.
Con Bitrate cap
According to its ISO standards, MP3 is not to be encoded at over 320kbps bitrate.
Con Lossy
Loses (a lot of) audio data to compression.
Con Inefficient compression
Its compression algorithms lacks behind AAC in terms of efficiency and loses more audio data at the same bitrate.
