Hi Product Hunt! 👋

I'm the creator of FISO (FLAC ISO), and I'm happy to share this project with you today.

FISO actually started as a personal project, created primarily to meet my own needs. I wanted a simple way to preserve entire audio CDs in a single file, keeping the original track structure, metadata, and artwork while benefiting from lossless FLAC compression.

I originally built it for my own use, without any particular intention of sharing it publicly. But as the project evolved, I thought it might also be useful to others, so I decided to make it available to everyone today.

Alongside the format, I created FISO Explorer, a free and open-source application for Windows, macOS, and Linux that makes it easy to create, explore, play, verify, and extract FISO images.

My hope is that FISO might eventually find its way into other audio applications, which is why I've made the format specification and source code openly available on GitHub.

This is an independent project, and I certainly don't claim to have reinvented audio archiving or created the perfect solution. It's simply something I wanted for myself, and I thought it was worth sharing.

I'm genuinely interested in all kinds of feedback, whether positive or negative. If you find the idea useful, have suggestions, notice technical limitations, or feel that something could be approached differently, I'd really appreciate hearing your thoughts.

Constructive criticism is just as welcome as encouragement. I'm always open to learning and improving the project.

Thank you for taking the time to discover FISO! 🙏

🔗 https://github.com/Real-Pandawan/fiso