Samsung fans please don't beat me, I have a tiny confession to make... I really really struggled to remember what the Samsung S5 was, and when I did remember I had actually confused it with the Samsung K5, luckily a search of our site set me straight.

That's my confession, I forgot the S5 existed but now I have a reason to remember it! According to our French compatriots over at GenerationMP3 the, now noted, Samsung S5 will soon be receiving a firmware update (1.50) which will all it to play FLAC encoded files!



This is like deja vu friends, just two days ago we brought you news that the Sandisk Sansa Clip had been updated to support Ogg Vorbis tracks and now Samsung is following suit with another open source codec! I think the DAP market is beginning to get a little bit exciting again!

I'm going to cross my fingers and hope this update will apply to more than just the S5, Samsung have a lot of models and a lot of fans who would greatly appreciate this extra format.

via GenerationMP3

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Looks like the update is out, in South Korea at least. Grab it from the Samsung site if you want FLAC goodness on your S5. Download Firmware