Google Chrome 56 Adds Support For FLAC Music File Playback

[froggyboy604]

Google has finally added support for FLAC playback within the browser. What this means is that if you’d rather not download the file onto your computer and stream it, Chrome will be able to do that. However like we said, this feature was added to the Chrome 56 beta so unless you’re beta testing the browser, you’ll have to wait like everyone else for the final release to check it out.

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This is good news for people who need a FLAC music player, and use Google Chrome.

But, I feel most FLAC music file users would use a program like Winamp, VLC media player, or Foobar music player to listen to FLAC.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

Flac? Who would stream a flac file in the first place? That format is the highest and lossless mp3 format there is.

 

[froggyboy604]

Flac? Who would stream a flac file in the first place? That format is the highest and lossless mp3 format there is.

I think not many people will stream FLAC because it is not as common as .wav, and MP3, and the file size of a FLAC audio file is bigger.

Some people claim FLAC audio files sound as good as CD quality which is the most high quality popular audio format if you do not include Vinyl records which some people claim are the highest quality way of playing music if you have a good Vinyl record collection.

The FLAC player built-into Chrome will most likely be mainly used for opening FLAC music files which you downloaded from the internet, or you converted audio to FLAC files from physical discs like a CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray audio and movie disc.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I think not many people will stream FLAC because it is not as common as .wav, and MP3, and the file size of a FLAC audio file is bigger.

Some people claim FLAC audio files sound as good as CD quality which is the most high quality popular audio format if you do not include Vinyl records which some people claim are the highest quality way of playing music if you have a good Vinyl record collection.

The FLAC player built-into Chrome will most likely be mainly used for opening FLAC music files which you downloaded from the internet, or you converted audio to FLAC files from physical discs like a CD, DVD, or Blu-Ray audio and movie disc.

yeah, flac is so high in file size it would be hard to stream. Also it is the best, I have several on my phone music player and it sounds like the band is right next to me when playing it.

 

[froggyboy604]

yeah, flac is so high in file size it would be hard to stream. Also it is the best, I have several on my phone music player and it sounds like the band is right next to me when playing it.

Usually, you can pause the streaming file, and wait for the whole FLAC file to finish downloading before pressing play again. But, FLAC is best for offline playback.