FLAC wordt over de hele wereld gebruikt en het is opensource, dus ik zie niet in wat er niet universeel aan is. Ik zie ook veel meer FLAC dan WAVE voorbij komen op bijvoorbeeld Soulseek, eMule en Bittorrent, om één overduidelijke reden: de kwaliteit blijft hetzelfde, maar het kost minder schijfruimte en bandbreedte. Processorkracht voor het decoderen van FLAC is tegenwoordig het probleem niet meer op de gemiddelde computer.
The Beatles have released 14 re-mastered albums in 24-bit FLAC on a themed USB drive.
The Eagles' latest album Long Road Out Of Eden has also been released in FLAC format (including the deluxe edition).
The European Broadcasting Union has adopted FLAC for distribution of audio over its Euroradio network.
Als dat niet universeel is weet ik het ook niet meer.
editten met de meestgebruikte programma's.
Uitspraak van verwijderd op zondag 7 november 2010 om 01:22:
Goed voor transport van hoogwaardig materiaal over internet en op draagbare media met beperkte opslagruimte en archivering.
Dus niet voor bewerking (daar hebben we WAVE voor).

Afspelen kan tegenwoordig ook met ieder fatsoenlijk programma (Winamp, Foobar, Mediamonkey, etc).
Lijstje van software met FLAC-ondersteuning:
A large and growing list of software supports the FLAC format. This list is a sample of open-source software supporting FLAC. Some of the most popular non-free software can be found on the download page in the extras section.
Audio encoders/decoders/converters/taggers:
* BonkEnc: Windows CD ripper, audio encoder and converter
* EasyTAG versatile tagger
* Entagged, a Java audio file tagger
* etree-scripts: command-line tools for verifying, tagging, converting, and burning lossless audio files
* FLAC frontend (Windows GUI)
* Flac-Jacket: a set of scripts for creating FLAC files and an HTML index
* FLACTAG: tags single album FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets using data from the MusicBrainz service
* MacFLAC Mac OS X FLAC distribution
* MediaCoder converts between many audio and video formats.
* MP3FS, a read-only FUSE filesystem which can transcode FLAC to MP3 on the fly
* rawrec/rawplay recording/playback tools
* sonice FLAC to Vorbis transcoder
* Split_wav WAV+CUE splitter
* Tag comprehensive tagger (frontend available)
* XLD (X Lossless Decoder), a Universal Binary command-line decoder for Mac OS X
Audio editors:
* Cooledit FLAC filter
* shntool
Audio players/servers:
* abcde (A Better CD Encoder)
* AlsaPlayer
* Amarok
* Aqualung, a Linux player
* aTunes
* AudioPlayer51: specialized for playing FLAC with CUE sheets
* Beep Media Player
* Boss Ogg: Audio client/server
* Cynthiune: a music player for Mac OS X and GNUstep
* DisOrder: a multi-user software jukebox
* flac-tools: includes flac123 player
* GiantDisc: Linux jukebox + Palm remote
* JReceiver servlet-based audio server
* Media Center FLAC plugins
* MPD, Music Player Daemon
* MPlayer
* Mpxplay, a DOS player
* Muine: a music player for GNOME
* Musik: an open-source, cross-platform multimedia player and library
* MythTV: Linux PVR and more
* Play, a versatile open-source player/music manager for OS X that supports FLAC and Ogg FLAC
* ripperX: X-based ripper/encoder
* Soepkip TNG music playing daemon + web interface
* Symbian OggPlay, an audio player for Symbian OS phones
* Thomer's Music Vault: a Linux music server
* VideoLAN client
* Xine multimedia player
* xmcd: X CD player
* XMMS: X MultiMedia System
CD ripping/burning:
* Arson: KDE ripper/burner
* AutoFLAC: automated ripping and encoding to FLAC with EAC (ExactAudioCopy); also has a write mode for burning back to CD for an exact copy
* CDex: ripper for Windows can rip to FLAC via external command
* crip: console ripper/encoder/tagger
* Flacattack: an all-in-one tool that works with EAC (ExactAudioCopy) to encode a CD image to FLAC, embed the cuesheet, add ReplayGain, create lossy files, etc. all in a customizable directory structure
* grip: ripper for Linux can rip to FLAC via external command
* K3B: CD/DVD creator for Linux
* MAREO multi-format encoder for EAC
* Max, a CD ripper and encoder for OS X
* Omni Encoder, a graphical multi-format encoder for EAC
* rip command-line ripper/encoder
* RipIT, a console-based front-end to several ripping and encoding tools
* VortexBox, an easy-to-install music server/jukebox OS
* Wack, the successor to Flacattack which can encode to multiple formats at once
Organizers:
* Ampache, a PHP-based tool for managing, updating and playing files via a web interface
* aTunes
* GNUpod includes on-the-fly FLAC conversion to iPod
* MPEG Audio Collection
* netjukebox, a web-based Winamp/httpQ media jukebox
* prokyon3, a Qt-based music manager and tag editor
* Rhythmbox, music management application for GNOME
Plugins, developer tools and libraries:
* audiere, a high-level audio API
* Audio::FLAC perl module
* Audio::FLAC::Decoder perl module
* CoreFLAC: FLAC DirectShow filters
* DirectShow filters for encoding to/decoding from FLAC and Ogg FLAC (as well as Ogg Vorbis/Speex/Theora).
* DirectShow filters by Madshi for decoding from FLAC.
* FLACDotNet, a .NET wrapper around libFLAC
* getID3(): a PHP4 script for extracting metadata
* Jaudiotagger Java audio tagging library
* GStreamer streaming media framework
* jFLAC: Java native FLAC decoder
* J-Ogg Java libraries for Ogg decoding
* libfishsound: API for decoding and encoding audio data using Xiph.Org codecs (FLAC, Speex and Vorbis)
* MediaXW includes FLAC DirectShow filter
* MMIOFLAC, Multimedia IOProc for OS/2
* Ptarmigan media parser for XML
* SDL_sound audio add-on to SDL
* WMP Tag Support Extender plugs in to Windows Media Player to allow access to FLAC tags
* XiphQT component for Quicktime/iTunes that supports Ogg FLAC playback
Scientific, Audio Analysis:
* HASAS HydroAcoustical Signal Analysis System