diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 6b3fde67..471bef5b 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 [submodule "externals/asio"]
 	path = externals/asio
 	url = https://github.com/chriskohlhoff/asio.git
+[submodule "externals/flac"]
+	path = externals/flac
+	url = git://xiph.org/flac.git
diff --git a/externals/flac b/externals/flac
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..0e11f73e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/externals/flac
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 0e11f73eabd3544f59937d0a0d8e076d7c9c2d1d