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FLAC Support Coming to Chrome 56, Firefox 51


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FLAC support coming to Chrome, Firefox

 

Two major browsers makers, Mozilla and Google, are adding support for the FLAC audio format this month, with the releases of Firefox 51 and Chrome 56.

FLAC is an acronym that stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, a file format for storing audio data with no data loss.

 

The format is well known among music lovers, who often prefer to listen to music files stored in FLAC format due to the higher sound quality that these files provide.

For many years, the downside to using FLAC files on the web was their huge size, with streaming providers opting for smaller audio file formats, such as MP3, WAV, and others.

 

But as bandwidths have grown all over the world, both streaming providers and browser makers are now turning their sights to FLAC in order to improve their quality of service.

FLAC support to be added in Firefox, Chrome by the end of the month

The first browser vendor to announce FLAC support was Mozilla. Since the end of August, Mozilla engineers have been working hard on adding FLAC support to Firefox.

Their end goal is Firefox 51, set for an official release on January 23. FLAC support has already arrived in Firefox Nightly and Beta versions, and the feature is expected to launch as initially planned.

 

The latest browser maker to add FLAC support is Google, who recently started adding basic FLAC support in the desktop version of Chrome 56, expected to launch on January 31.

 

According to a feature request spotted by 9to5Google, Chrome users had been asking for FLAC support since as early as 2011. ChromeOS already features FLAC support, so adding it to the Chrome browser now seems a trivial task.

 

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Again, not sure what took them so long for this.

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