Sample FLAC 5MB File
FLAC — lossless compressed audio
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Download 5MB FLAC5 MBTestFile-flac-5mb.flac
File details
| Format | FLAC |
| Extension | .flac |
| MIME type | audio/flac |
| Size | 5 MB |
| Exact bytes | 5,242,880 |
| Filename | TestFile-flac-5mb.flac |
| Format version | FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) 1.3 |
| Contents | 440 Hz sine tone, ~2 min; 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, stereo; FLAC lossless compression |
| Encoding | FLAC lossless; 44,100 Hz; 16-bit; stereo; LPC + Golomb-Rice; seekable frame structure |
What is a 5MB FLAC file useful for?
A 5 MB FLAC file provides approximately 2 minutes of lossless audio — the typical size for a music track stem, a radio spot master, or a high-quality field recording. Use it to test that your audio pipeline correctly identifies FLAC as a lossless format and applies a different processing path than MP3 (e.g., storing the original FLAC for archival while transcoding to AAC for streaming), and to benchmark FLAC decode throughput for real-time transcoding pipelines.
What's inside this file?
Generated by ffmpeg. A 440 Hz sine tone approximately 2 minutes long at 44.1 kHz, 16-bit, stereo. FLAC LPC compression on the sine content achieves ~8:1 vs uncompressed PCM. At this duration the file contains multiple FLAC frame groups, each independently decodable — FLAC's frame structure allows seeking to any frame without decoding from the start.
Download via curl
curl -L "http://localhost:8000/files/flac/TestFile-flac-5mb.flac" \ -o TestFile-flac-5mb.flac
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