FLAC 1.5 introduces multi-threaded audio encoding capabilities, allowing users to specify thread count through command-line arguments and supporting chained Ogg FLAC files decoding. The update addresses a long-standing need for parallel processing in FLAC encoding, considering the trend of increasing CPU core counts.

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