FLAC 1.5 is the latest update for the popular Free Lossless Audio Codec software, finally introducing multi-threaded audio encoding. This much-needed feature allows users to set the number of threads using simple commands. The update also includes the ability to handle chained Ogg FLAC files, along with various fixes and improvements. With rising CPU core counts over the past decade, the addition of multi-threaded encoding is a welcome change. Stay tuned for new FLAC audio encoding CPU benchmarks to be released soon. Check out the latest version of FLAC 1.5 on GitHub for downloads and more information.
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