Sample FLAC 1MB File
FLAC — lossless compressed audio
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File details
| Format | FLAC |
| Extension | .flac |
| MIME type | audio/flac |
| Size | 1 MB |
| Exact bytes | 1,048,576 |
| Filename | TestFile-flac-1mb.flac |
| Format version | FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) 1.3 |
| Contents | 440 Hz sine tone, ~22 s; 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, stereo; FLAC lossless compression |
| Encoding | FLAC lossless; 44,100 Hz; 16-bit; stereo; LPC predictor, Golomb-Rice coded residuals |
What is a 1MB FLAC file useful for?
A 1 MB FLAC file provides approximately 22 seconds of lossless audio — the typical size for a high-quality music sample, an archival recording segment, or a vocal stem in a production workflow. Use it to test FLAC metadata reading (VORBIS_COMMENT blocks for title/artist tags), lossless-to-lossy transcoding pipelines (FLAC → AAC for streaming delivery), and to verify that your audio storage layer preserves FLAC files without re-encoding.
What's inside this file?
Generated by ffmpeg. A 440 Hz sine tone approximately 22 seconds long at 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, stereo. FLAC's LPC predictor on a pure sine wave achieves approximately 8:1 compression. The file contains a fLaC marker, STREAMINFO block, and audio frame data. The equivalent uncompressed WAV would be approximately 8 MB.
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curl -L "http://localhost:8000/files/flac/TestFile-flac-1mb.flac" \ -o TestFile-flac-1mb.flac
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