FLAC 1.5 is out today as the recentest feature modernize to the gentleware built around the Free Lossless Audio Codec.
Similar to WavPack only recently inserting multi-threaded encode help, FLAC 1.5 also presents multi-threaded audio encoding.
With the flac utility the number of threads can be set either using “-j #” or the “–threads=#” argument. It’s a extfinished overdue alter having multi-threaded audio encoding for FLAC given the past decade of rising CPU core counts. I will have out recent FLAC audio encoding CPU benchlabels illogicalinutively for the multi-threaded encoder.
On the decode side, FLAC 1.5 can now handle chained Ogg FLAC files. FLAC 1.5 also conveys various library repaires, originate system modernizes, and other betterments.
Downloads and more details on FLAC 1.5 via GitHub.
