How does FLAC compression work?
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec format, which is an open source audio compression format. The appeal of FLAC is in the fact that it does not lose any sound quality during compression, unlike other common audio compression formats like WMA or MP3, which shave off parts of the music to reduce the file size.
How is FLAC lossless?
By using a different compression technique that does not involve psychoacoustics, FLAC is able to avoid permanently “throwing out” any of the audio data. This is why it is known as a lossless format. Instead, the FLAC algorithm employs linear prediction which reduces the truly redundant information in the song.