[flac-dev] FLAC is now formally specified in RFC 9639

[Jim Gray]

Thanks!  And congrats, Martijn, for your work and success on this!
Jim------------------------

On Thu, 26 December 2024 at 11:36 AM, Martijn van Beurden
<mvanb1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Sorry for completely forgetting to inform the mailing list about this.
> It has been too quiet here lately.
>
> Anyway, RFC 9639 has been published, specifying the Free Lossless
> Audio Codec (FLAC) format. See
>
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9639
> (https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9639)
> https://xiph.org/flac/2024/12/19/rfc-9639-published.html
> (https://xiph.org/flac/2024/12/19/rfc-9639-published.html)
>
> Although FLAC has had a specification document since 2000 and an
> open-source reference implementation filling in the details, this
> document should formally specify the format, such that implementers
> don’t have to look at the reference source code or browse the mailing
> list archives for details.
>
> This publication doesn’t change the FLAC format except explicitly
> adding support for 32-bit audio and adding restrictions to
> accommodate, see here for details.
>
> The main benefit this publication brings is that it should make
> writing a new FLAC decoder implementation from scratch much easier. It
> also provides assurance for archives wanting to use the FLAC format
> that their files remain decodable in the far future, in case FLAC ever
> becomes obsolete and its implementations unusable.
>
> Many thanks for all who participated in improving this document.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Martijn van Beurden
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