



is home to other free compression formats such as Vorbis, Theora, Speex and Opus. On 29 January 2003, the Xiph.Org Foundation and the FLAC project announced the incorporation of FLAC under the banner. Version 1.0 was released on 20 July 2001. The bit-stream format was frozen when FLAC entered beta stage with the release of version 0.5 of the reference implementation on 15 January 2001. Development was started in 2000 by Josh Coalson.
