This format is well suited e.g. for compressing important archive data without loosing any quality - for more info (including player plug-ins), see http://flac.sourceforge.net/.
Note: The FLAC format does not natively support storing loop points and root keys, but there is "--keep-foreign-metadata" method that it will use to save a .WAV-style "smpl"-chunk with this data.
Features:
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