<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /></head><body><div data-crea="font-wrapper" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; direction: ltr"><div style="font-family: Sans Serif; font-size: 16px"></div>Thanks! And congrats, Martijn, for your work and success on this!<br><div><div data-crea="font-wrapper"><div data-crea="font-wrapper"><br></div><div data-crea="font-wrapper">Jim</div><div data-crea="font-wrapper">------------------------</div></div></div><br><br><div data-anchor="reply-title">On Thu, 26 December 2024 at 11:36 AM, Martijn van Beurden <mvanb1@gmail.com> wrote:</div><blockquote><div>Hi all,<br><br>Sorry for completely forgetting to inform the mailing list about this.<br>It has been too quiet here lately.<br><br>Anyway, RFC 9639 has been published, specifying the Free Lossless<br>Audio Codec (FLAC) format. See<br><br><a target="_blank" href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9639" class="external">https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9639</a><br><a target="_blank" href="https://xiph.org/flac/2024/12/19/rfc-9639-published.html" class="external">https://xiph.org/flac/2024/12/19/rfc-9639-published.html</a><br><br>Although FLAC has had a specification document since 2000 and an<br>open-source reference implementation filling in the details, this<br>document should formally specify the format, such that implementers<br>don’t have to look at the reference source code or browse the mailing<br>list archives for details.<br><br>This publication doesn’t change the FLAC format except explicitly<br>adding support for 32-bit audio and adding restrictions to<br>accommodate, see here for details.<br><br>The main benefit this publication brings is that it should make<br>writing a new FLAC decoder implementation from scratch much easier. It<br>also provides assurance for archives wanting to use the FLAC format<br>that their files remain decodable in the far future, in case FLAC ever<br>becomes obsolete and its implementations unusable.<br><br>Many thanks for all who participated in improving this document.<br><br>Kind regards,<br><br>Martijn van Beurden<br>_______________________________________________<br>flac-dev mailing list<br><a target="_blank" href="mailto:flac-dev@xiph.org" class="external">flac-dev@xiph.org</a><br><a target="_blank" href="http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev" class="external">http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev</a></div></blockquote></div></body></html>