FLAC and OGG explained
FLAC compresses audio losslessly, typically to about half the size of WAV. Decompressed, it is bit-for-bit identical to the original — the compression is mathematical, not perceptual.
OGG here means Ogg Vorbis, a royalty-free lossy codec that predates Opus. It is competitive with AAC and remains common in games.
- Where FLAC files come from
- Hi-fi music libraries and archival rips of physical media.
- Where OGG is used
- Game audio, Spotify's older streams and open-source projects.