Chrome is Getting the Ability To Play FLAC (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday January 13, 2017 @04:00AM from the about-time dept.

Audiophiles are getting a new way to listen to one of the top formats for lossless music. From a report: Google has begun adding FLAC support to Chrome, and it should be rolling out to the masses very soon. FLAC support is already live in Chrome's beta build and it's live in the current version of Chrome OS, too. If you have local FLAC files or come across one on the web, the added support allows Chrome to open it up in a completely bare-bones music player that takes over the entire tab. It's not exactly elegant, but it works. And it means that Mac users with Chrome installed will have an easy way to play back FLAC files should they come across one. While there are plenty of apps that can handle FLAC -- VLC being a popular one -- no native macOS app is capable of it. Windows 10, on the other hand, includes native support.

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Re:VLC isn't a native macOS app? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-01-13 04:27 · Score: 3, Funny

A lot of Mac users don't like to use apps that are portable to other operating systems, they like feeling exclusive.
examples: Adium, Vienna, Delicious Library, Juice, Formulate Pro, The Unarchiver, Fugu, and Colloquy.
Masses of audiophiles rejoyce! by guacamole · 2017-01-13 05:24 · Score: 1, Funny

All 12 of them!
Re:Fucking useless by fph+il+quozientatore · 2017-01-13 06:57 · Score: 3, Funny

Dude, how can I make my Geocities home page without my favorite repeating MIDI background music?

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