10 KB FLAC sample

A FLAC file of exactly 10,240 bytes. It is a valid Free Lossless Audio Codec file, generated by this site. Compare its checksum and test it with the parser used by your application. Use it wherever you need a 10 KB sample, test or dummy FLAC file.

sample-flac-10kb.flac

10 KB10,240 bytes

Download 10 KB FLAC

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Type: audio/flac
SHA-256: 233f4f0804e9396f9ccf2ed2366eb92b026a4fd2d6521b700680fcd699267958
Delivery: Created in your browser from static generator assets (how it works).

What is in this file

1 FLAC frames (0.1 s) of a synthesised musical phrase that repeats every eight seconds. The samples are stored verbatim, so the audio decodes bit for bit to the matching WAV data. 2 bytes of a standard PADDING metadata block bring the file to the exact size.

Duration	0.1 s
Sample rate	44,100 Hz
Channels	2 (stereo)
Bit depth	16-bit
Block size	4,096 samples
Encoding	Verbatim subframes (lossless, not compressed)
Tags	Vorbis comment (title, artist, album)

First bytes of the file

The first 64 bytes of sample-flac-10kb.flac as a hex dump: offset, bytes, then the same bytes as text. The FLAC signature is 66 4C 61 43.

00000000  66 4c 61 43 00 00 00 22  10 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 |fLaC..."........|
00000010  00 00 0a c4 42 f0 00 00  09 d2 dc 5b 55 a0 61 00 |....B......[U.a.|
00000020  5f 89 74 22 b7 44 a7 aa  de c9 04 00 00 78 19 00 |_.t".D.......x..|
00000030  00 00 53 61 6d 70 6c 65  54 65 73 74 46 69 6c 65 |..SampleTestFile|

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Where 10 KB matters

A 10,240-byte file that still arrives in the first round trip of a new connection. These are the default limits a file of this size is useful for testing:

System	Limit	Note
TCP initial congestion window	About 14.6 KB (10 segments)	A 10 KB response fits in the first flight of packets; the 25 KB sample does not.
nginx and Apache request headers	8 KB per header line by default	Data this large must go in the request body.
webpack asset modules	8 KB by default	Assets over the threshold are emitted as files instead of data URIs.

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Use this file for

Checking email size handling
Checking transcoding to MP3, AAC or Opus
Verifying duration and tag reading

Testing notes for FLAC

Cover art lives in the metadata, so a three-minute song can carry several megabytes before its first audio frame.
Some tagging tools put an ID3 tag in front of the stream. The signature then no longer sits at byte 0, and a strict parser rejects a file that most players accept.

FLAC format reference

Technical details

File name	sample-flac-10kb.flac
Format	FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec)
Extension	.flac
MIME type	audio/flac
Size	10,240 bytes (10 KB)
Kind	Binary
Signature	66 4C 61 43
SHA-256	233f4f0804e9396f9ccf2ed2366eb92b026a4fd2d6521b700680fcd699267958
Created	2026-10-23
Validation	See the listed size and SHA-256. Small downloads are checked in the browser; verify streamed downloads manually. A hash match does not prove parser compatibility.
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated in your browser by this site's generator; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Audio

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Questions about this file

Is this file exactly 10 KB?: Yes. It is 10,240 bytes, which is 10 KB in the binary units that operating systems and server limits use (1 KB = 1,024 bytes).
What is inside the 10 KB FLAC file?: 1 FLAC frames (0.1 s) of a synthesised musical phrase that repeats every eight seconds. The samples are stored verbatim, so the audio decodes bit for bit to the matching WAV data. 2 bytes of a standard PADDING metadata block bring the file to the exact size.
What audio is on the FLAC samples?: A short synthesised musical phrase that repeats, as 16-bit stereo at 44,100 Hz. It was generated by code for this site and is free of any music copyright.

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