# List of hardware and software that supports FLAC

This is a list of computer hardware and software which supports FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), a file format designed for lossless compression of digital audio.

## Hardware support
### Car devices

* Alpine CDE-163BT
* Alpine UTE-62BT
* Citroën DS5
* Hyundai Ioniq
* Hyundai Kona
* Kenwood KMM-100U
* Mercedes MBUX (Stereo and Surround)
* Nissan X-trail T3
* Peugeot 208 Blue Lion
* Pioneer Avic-4100 -> 8100NEX
* Pioneer DEH-X8700BH
* Power Acoustik PD-622NB
* Renault Espace
* SEAT León
* Sony MEX-N5100BT
* Sony MEX-XB100BT
* Sony XAV-AX1000
* Tesla Models S/3/X/Y

### DJ players

* Pioneer CDJ-2000nexus2
* Pioneer CDJ-TOUR1
* Pioneer XDJ-1000mk2
* Pioneer CDJ-3000
* Pioneer XDJ-RX3
* Pioneer XDJ-XZ (After firmware vers. 1.10)

### Active speakers

* Fenda F&D A140X, F&D A180X
* Logitech Z607 5.1

### Home audio AV receivers / amplifiers

* Bang and Olufsen BeoSound 5
* Denon AVR-1612, AVR-2313, AVR-3310, AVR-3808, AVR-4308, AVR-4310, AVR-4311, AVR-4520A, AVR-4810, AVR-5308, AVP-A1HDCI, AVR-X1000, AVR-X2000, AVR-X3000, AVR-X4000, NP-720AE*Escient
* Onkyo TX-8050, TX-SR309, TX-SR333, TX-NR535, TX-NR626, TX-NR636, TX-NR737, TX-NR838, TX-NR1030, TX-NR3030
* Pioneer SC-05, SC-07, SC-25, SC-27, SC-35, SC-37, SC-09TX, X-HM76B, XC-HM86
* Sonos 16-bit max.
* Sony's High-Res Audio Players
* Yamaha RX-A1000/A2000/A3000 AV Receiver, RX-V477, RX-V671, RX-V673 (RX-V773, RX-V671, RX-V673 – up to 96 kHz streaming and 192 kHz external link) AV Receivers, RX-V773, RX-V795, RX-V1067, RX-V2065 AV Receiver, RX-V2067, RX-V3067 AV Receivers

### Home media servers and clients

* Cambridge Audio CXN Network Player | Azur 851N Network Player
* Dvico TVIX HD M-6500, N1 (cafe), HD M-6600A/N Plus, HD M-7000
* Linn Klimax DS, Renew DS, Akurate DS, Majik DS and Sneaky Music DS
* Logitech Squeezebox and Transporter network music players from Logitech. Current products decode natively, old v1 units transcode to PCM on the server. (discontinued)
* Naim Audio HDX Hard Disk Player, NaimUniti, UnitiQute, DAC, NDX, UnitiServe
* Meridian Sooloos
* Pixel Magic Systems' HD Mediabox (with firmware 1.3.4 or higher)
* PS Audio Perfect Wave DAC + Bridge (Digital-to-Analog Converter/Digital Streamer)
* Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ HD, HDTV Network Media Player STAJ100
* T+A Music Player
* Western Digital WD TV HD based

### Portable handheld players

* Colorfly C3, C4, C10, C200
* Creative Zen X-Fi 2
* FiiO X Series
* iAudio (Cowon): A2, A3, 6, 7, F2, O2, M3, M5, X5, U3, U5, D2, D2+, S9, J3, X7 native support with newer firmware.
* iriver E200, E150, E100, E50, E30, Lplayer, SPINN, T8.
* Meizu M6 Mini Player, M3 Music Card
* PonoPlayer
* Rio Karma
* Samsung YP-U5 USB stick portable player
* Sandisk Clip Sport
* SanDisk Sansa Fuze, Clip (with updated firmware), Clip+, Fuze+, Clip Zip
* Teclast T29, T39, C260, C280, C290
* Transcend MP860, MP870
* TRAXMOD Open source, open hardware portable MMC/SD player
* Trekstor Vibez
* VEDIA A10, B6

### Smartphones and tablets

* Archos 5 Internet Tablet
* Archos Internet Media Tablets
* Nokia N900, Nokia N9
* BlackBerry Playbook Tablet, BlackBerry 10 smartphones
* Most Android devices with a compatible third-party player, such as Apollo or "VLC". Retrieved 22 February 2016.
** Samsung Droid Charge, Galaxy S II Epic 4G Touch, Exhibit 4G, Fascinate, Infuse 4G, Mesmerize
** Samsung Galaxy Note, R, S, S Plus, S II, S II LTE, S III, Samsung Galaxy W, SL, Tab, U and all later models running Android 3.1 or later
** LG Optimus G, LG G2, LG G3, LG G4, LG V10, LG G5, LG V20
** Sony Xperia Z series, Sony Xperia X, XA, XA1
** All Android devices with Android 3.1 or later
* Samsung Wave series
* Windows Mobile 6.5 or earlier with compatible third-party software player.
* Windows Phone devices running Windows 10 Mobile (Windows Phone 7/8 may vary).
* Jolla series of smartphones

### Blu-ray / DVD / USB players

* LG UBKM9, UBK90, UBK80 (Blu-ray players with USB port)
* OPPO Digital BDP-93 & BDP-95 and BDP-103 & BDP-105 Universal Network 3D Blu-ray Disc Players, and UDP-203 & UDP-205 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc Players
* Panasonic BDP-BD77, BDT500
* Roku Ultra (media player)
* Samsung HT-H4500R
* Sony BDP-S1200, BDP-S3200, BDP-S4200, BDP-S5200

### Portable handheld recorders

* Olympus LS-P4

### Unsorted

* Embedded Waveplayer Module with FLAC level 0–2 support, MIDI and serial interface

## Software support
### Encoding

Although some software supports FLAC natively "out of the box", some require installation of a third-part FLAC filter or plug-in.
| Name | Description | Platform | Platform | Platform |
| Name | Description | Windows | Mac OS X | Linux |
| Adobe Audition | Does not natively support FLAC but can use a third-party filter. | Yes | No | No |
| aTunes | | Yes | Yes | No |
| ALLPlayer | | Yes | No | No |
| Audacious | | No | No | Yes |
| Audacity | Possible since version 1.2.5. Full support since 2.0.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cakewalk SONAR | Producer Edition version 7 and later. | Yes | No | No |
| CDex | Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. | Yes | No | No |
| Easy Media Creator | | Yes | No | No |
| Exact Audio Copy | Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. | Yes | No | No |
| FFmpeg | Own implementation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| foobar2000 | With external encoder | Yes | No | No |
| fre:ac | Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| GoldWave | | Yes | No | No |
| GOM Player | | Yes | No | No |
| Grip | Grip is a CD-player and CD-ripper for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built-in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav). | No | No | Yes |
| JetAudio | | Yes | No | No |
| Juce | | Yes | Yes | No |
| JRiver Media Center | Since version 12.0.3xx | Yes | No | No |
| Media Go | Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. | Yes | No | No |
| MediaCoder | | Yes | No | No |
| MediaMonkey | | Yes | No | No |
| MusicBee | Via flac.exe that is shipped with MusicBee and available separately at flac.sourceforge.net | Yes | No | No |
| Nero Burning ROM | With optional external filter plug-in. | Yes | No | No |
| REAPER | | Yes | Yes | No |
| Sound Forge | Version 9 and later | Yes | No | No |
| Vegas Pro 8, Vegas Pro 9 | | Yes | No | No |
| Toast Titanium | Beginning with version 7 | No | Yes | No |
| Total Recorder | Standard and Professional editions | Yes | No | No |
| VLC media player | | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| WaveLab | Added in version 7.1 | Yes | Yes | No |
| Winamp | Since 5.35 uses Flake. Versions before 5.54 generate an incorrect MD5 checksum. | Yes | No | No |
| Windows Media Player | Added in Windows 10. Can rip directly from CD to FLAC file. | Yes | No | No |
| XMedia Recode | | Yes | No | No |
| Yahoo! Music Jukebox | | Yes | No | No |

### Ripping
## OS packaged software
### Apple
#### iOS

FLAC is natively supported on IOS 11, including all "iDevices", but only via the Files (Apple) app or iCloud Drive. iTunes does not support FLAC, with Apple only offering native support for their own similar ALAC lossless audio format. Third-party applications are available in the App Store which enable FLAC playback.
Jailbroken iOS devices could play it through the applications from Cydia.

#### macOS

As with their iOS operating system, Apple's iTunes software on macOS cannot natively playback FLAC audio files. One exception to this is with the use of a third-party software plug-in, which currently allows iTunes software to playback a small percentage of Ogg-based FLAC files. Computers that run on the MacOS High Sierra operating can play Flac files via QuickTime Player. Older versions require third-party non-iTunes media players in order to playback FLAC files, or to encode into FLAC files.

### Android

Native support for FLAC was added to the Android operating system starting from the 3.1 'Honeycomb' update. The feature came about after much public discussion on Android's Google Code development site. However, FLAC support is limited to .FLAC files as Android does not support decode inside of other file containers (such as MP4 and MKV).
Prior to the Android 3.1 update, Samsung included native support on over 32 Android devices, including their Galaxy line of phones. In addition, other prior Android device users could only (and still today) resort to using third-party applications (apps) available for Android such as PowerAMP, andLess, Astro Player or otherwise alternatively turn to installing custom system ROMs such as CyanogenMod. Note that some of these third-party applications, especially PowerAMP, decode FLAC and other formats using FFmpeg and therefore do not rely on the operating system to provide that functionality.

### Microsoft

The Windows Mobile operating system is able to support playback of FLAC files through the use of plugins or third-party applications such as TCMP and others. On Windows Phone 7 (WP7) there is no FLAC support available in the default Zune media player though playback is supported in third-party applications like a Flac Player. Similar goes for Windows Phone 8.
Microsoft Windows 10 supports FLAC decoding in Windows Media Player and other software that uses Windows platform APIs for audio decoding.

## After-market / FLAC support with modding

* Nintendo Wii when running the Wii homebrew app MPlayerWii or MPlayer CE or WiiMC
* Apple TV, Plex, XBMC Media Center or Boxee
* iPod: 1st through Classic generation, iPod mini and 1st/2nd generation iPod nano (not the shuffle, 3rd gen nano, or touch), using third party Rockbox firmware
* Nearly all other Rockbox-compatible DAPs, including the iriver and Gigabeat (Toshiba) range of devices, plus the aforementioned iPods
* Sound Devices 7-Series Professional Audio Recorders with "badger" firmware update (v.2.24)
* Sony PlayStation Portable when running the homebrew LightMP3 application.
* Samsung YP-P3, YP-Q1, YP-Q2, YP-U5, YP-S5 (with upgraded firmware available from Samsung website)
* FLAC playback is possible on mobile devices or phones based on Windows Mobile, or Symbian OS with either S60, Series 80 or Series 90 UI platforms, can run the free open source media player application OggPlay. Also LCG Jukebox from Lonely Cat Games is able to play FLAC audio on Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile devices.
* Android operating system devices are capable of playing FLAC since version 3.1 Others may also support it by replacing the device's firmware with the third-party CyanogenMod ROM, which can play back FLAC. Otherwise users could simply opt to use a third-party supported application for Android such as PowerAMP, andLess, RockPlayer or Meridian Media Player. Such players can even recognize the tags after using Extended Media Scanner. Example of this include HTC HD2 running third-party Android software.
* Rockbox open source firmware for multiple portable audio players