Section 80 Flac

[Henrietta Naughton]

Materialin the underlying sections mostly refers to FLAC3D. However, same or equivalent concepts, derivations, examples, and results are applied to FLAC2D (as it operates under the assumption of plane-strain which is a subset of full 3D analysis). Topics or descriptions specific to FLAC2D are explicitly stated where applicable.

The theoretical formulation for FLAC is described in the first section, Theoretical Background. This includes an overview of the explicit finite volume method and the numerical implementation in FLAC.

The following section, Zone Joints, describes the FLAC zone joint logic. Zone joints can be used as alternatives to interfaces, representing two-sided joints on which sliding and separation can occur.

I've written a script to "normalize" all my FLAC files by stripping unneeded tags, padding tracknumber/discnumber, removing pictures, etc. As part of the normalization process, my script re-compresses the FLAC file to level 8. Since re-compressing an already level-8 FLAC is pointless and time consuming, I want a way to know if the audio of the FLAC file has been changed since my last compression (I don't want to use file modification time because changing the metadata would change this as well). Is there an easy way to get the MD5 hash or something of the FLAC audio section so I can quickly check if it's been altered? Thanks!

I think it would be good to introduce an additional section in Tools/Options/Tags to handle FLAC files separately: So one could more easily specify which kind of tags should be read/written/removed.

This would be especially neat since I currently use Mp3tag and a batch Export to replay-gain my whole collection (which replay-gains album-oriented, auto-distinguishing between MP3, OGG, and FLAC). It would be great if I could go through all FLAC files before and re-tag those to FLAC tags only that might be mis-tagged using ID3v2.

What I want to do is have that 16-bit part of the stream actually be 24-bit (superfluous 0s) and have the whole stream behave as 24-bit but I cannot seem to find a way to have my exported audio behave this way (exporting as 24-bit does not solve it). Any help or advice on why this happens and what I can do to have this audio appear as a consistent 24-bit stream would be greatly appreciated.

I realize there is absolutely no benefit (in terms of quality) from introducing superfluous 0s to a 16-bit stream to make it 24-bit but the point was to have a consistent bit depth throughout the stream file since the rest of the stream is 24-bit.

Based on the data I got from Eac3to when it identified the audio, it seems like Audacity is trying to create a smaller file size by maintaining the 16-bit part of the stream as 16-bit instead of allowing superfluous 0s to be introduced to make the whole stream 24-bit. It reminded me of variable framerates in video files. I realize this probably sounds like a bug with Eac3to but it does make me wonder how exactly Audacity handles the export of a project that has both 16-bit and 24-bit audio when it is being told to export it as a 24-bit flac file.

Audacity uses the official FLAC encoding library. It passes the audio data to the library, then lets the encoder do its thing.

For exact details about how the FLAC encoder works you would probably be better asking the guys at Xiph: FLAC - What is FLAC?

@Gale

They are both LPCM streams which I converted to FLAC then imported into Audacity. I open the 24-bit stream first then I open the 16-bit stream and I copy the missing section that I wish to have in the former stream in order to have my audio sync.

Eac3to converted it from LPCM to FLAC as it is easy for me to script this when I deal with *.m2ts files (containers) on blurays. A sample of the 16/24-bit clip can be found here. The 16-bit stream lasts from 0 to 1840ms inclusive, the rest is 24-bit for this sample.

I have provided some samples used to create the earlier track (the 16bit and 24bit tracks) at the bottom of this post; these samples were made in Eac3to. To reproduce that track from above, I copied 0 to 1840ms (inclusive) from the 16bit track and pasted it overtop of the 0 to 1840ms section (inclusive) of the 24-bit track.

This registration is entered into the [webcodecs-codec-registry]. It describes, for FLAC, the (1) fully qualified codec strings, (2) the codec-specific EncodedAudioChunk [[internal data]] bytes, (3) the AudioDecoderConfig.description bytes, (4) the values of EncodedAudioChunk [[type]], and (5) the codec-specific extensions to AudioEncoderConfig.

The registration is not intended to include any information on whether a codec format is encumbered by intellectual property claims. Implementers and authors are advised to seek appropriate legal counsel in this matter if they intend to implement or use a specific codec format. Implementers of WebCodecs are not required to support the FLAC codec.

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at

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