---
name: "flac123"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "flac123"
version: "0.0.9-3"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/flac123"
---

# flac123(1)

a command-line flac player

## NAME

flac123 - a command-line flac player

## SYNOPSIS

**flac123** \[*options*\] *files*...

## DESCRIPTION

**flac123** is the only component of flac-tools at this time. It is a command-line player for the FLAC format, an open format for losslessly compressing audio data. **flac123** is heavily based upon mpg321 by Joe Drew \<drew@debian.org\>

flac-tools aims to be a complete set of tools for playing and manipulating audio files stored the the FLAC format.

## OPTIONS

- **-d, --driver=STRING**

  Set libao output driver (oss, esd, arts, macosx, etc). Default is oss.

- **-w, --wav=FILENAME**

  Send output to wav file (use --wav=- and -q for stdout).

- **-R, --remote**

  Set remote mode for programmatic control.

- **-q, --quiet**

  Suppress text output.

- **-?, --help**

  Show summary of options.

- **--usage**

  Display brief usage message.

## SEE ALSO

[**mpg321**(1)](/mpg321/1.md), [**ogg123**(1)](/ogg123/1.md). **\<http://flac-tools.sourceforge.net/\>**\

## AUTHOR

flac123 was written by Jake Angerman \<kerneljake@hotmail.com\>.

This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann \<daniel.baumann@panthera-systems.net\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).