FLAC 1.1.3 Beta Released
FLAC 1.1.3 Beta has been released and includes a number of welcome changes and improvements. One of the most exciting additions is the support for a picture metadata block which will enable cover art to be used. There is also a variety of improvements to aid in recovery from corruption. For an entire list of changes visit the Changelog link below. More details to come on what these changes will mean for FLAC users.
- Improved compression with no impact on format or decoding speed.
- Much better recovery for corrupted files as well improved -F option for recovering corrupt metadata
- Better multichannel support
- Speaker assignments and channel orders for 3-6 channels
- New PICTURE metadata block for storing things like cover art.













