Yamaha RX-A1000/A2000/A3000 AV Receiver, RX-V477, RX-V671, RX-V673 (RX-V773, RX-V671, RX-V673 – up to 96 kHz streaming and 192 kHz external link) AV Receivers, RX-V773, RX-V795, RX-V1067, RX-V2065 AV Receiver, RX-V2067, RX-V3067 AV Receivers
Home media servers and clients
Cambridge Audio CXN Network Player | Azur 851N Network Player
Dvico TVIX HD M-6500, N1 (cafe), HD M-6600A/N Plus, HD M-7000
Linn Klimax DS, Renew DS, Akurate DS, Majik DS and Sneaky Music DS
Logitech Squeezebox and Transporter network music players from Logitech. Current products decode natively, old v1 units transcode to PCM on the server. (discontinued)
Naim Audio HDX Hard Disk Player,[12] NaimUniti, UnitiQute, DAC, NDX, UnitiServe
Grip is a CD-player and CD-ripper for the GNOME desktop. It has the ripping capabilities of cdparanoia built-in, but can also use external rippers (such as cdda2wav).
FLAC is natively supported on IOS 11, including all "iDevices", but only via the Files (Apple) app or iCloud Drive. iTunes does not support FLAC, with Apple only offering native support for their own similar ALAC lossless audio format. Third-party applications are available in the App Store which enable FLAC playback.
As with their iOS operating system, Apple's iTunes software on macOS cannot natively playback FLAC audio files. One exception to this is with the use of a third-party software plug-in, which currently allows iTunes software to playback a small percentage of Ogg-based FLAC files. Computers that run on the MacOS High Sierra operating can play Flac files via QuickTime Player. Older versions require third-party non-iTunes media players in order to playback FLAC files, or to encode into FLAC files.
Android
Native support for FLAC was added to the Android operating system starting from the 3.1 'Honeycomb' update.[32] The feature came about after much public discussion on Android's Google Code development site.[33] However, FLAC support is limited to .FLAC files as Android does not support decode inside of other file containers (such as MP4 and MKV).[34]
Prior to the Android 3.1 update, Samsung included native support on over 32 Android devices, including their Galaxy line of phones.[22] In addition, other prior Android device users could only (and still today) resort to using third-party applications (apps) available for Android such as PowerAMP, andLess, Astro Player or otherwise alternatively turn to installing custom system ROMs such as CyanogenMod. Note that some of these third-party applications, especially PowerAMP, decode FLAC and other formats using FFmpeg and therefore do not rely on the operating system to provide that functionality.
Microsoft
The Windows Mobile operating system is able to support playback of FLAC files through the use of plugins or third-party applications such as TCMP and others.[35] On Windows Phone 7 (WP7) there is no FLAC support available in the default Zune media player[36][37] though playback is supported in third-party applications like a Flac Player.[38] Similar goes for Windows Phone 8.
Microsoft Windows 10 supports FLAC decoding in Windows Media Player and other software that uses Windows platform APIs for audio decoding.[39]
Android operating system devices are capable of playing FLAC since version 3.1[45] Others may also support it by replacing the device's firmware with the third-party CyanogenMod ROM, which can play back FLAC. Otherwise users could simply opt to use a third-party supported application for Android such as PowerAMP, andLess, RockPlayer or Meridian Media Player. Such players can even recognize the tags after using Extended Media Scanner. Example of this include HTC HD2 running third-party Android software.
Rockbox open source firmware for multiple portable audio players