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iPod Flac to Apple Lossless?

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MajereXYU

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May 11, 2005
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Does anyone know of a good piece of Software to convert .FLAC audio files to Apple Lossless Codec?

Basically, if I could get iTunes to play Flac, I could convert them using iTunes but the Quicktime Component that was supposed to let me import Flac I found does not seem to work...

Anyone have any suggestion?
 
I'd use xAct to convert flac to aiff, then iTunes to convert aiff to Apple lossless. (iTunes offers the option to convert files to your default import encoding selection.)
 
Thanks! I will look into this!

Seems like it would be the best option since it is lossless as well and natively played by iTunes.

But then again, I could always keep the files in .aiff format.

Does aiff take more disk space than AAC Lossless? Also, can iPods play aiff?
 
Then I'll heat up my Cores and start some encodin'!

Thanks a bunch for the info.

By the way, Xact looks solid (and it's freeware to boot).
 
I used to use XACT — until I found XLD link

Try it, I highly recommend it.

It converts from .Flac to apple lossless or anyone of a lot of formats in one step, so you can just import the Apple loosless file dierctly into iTunes.

PS. And it is freeware.
 
arkitect said:
I used to use XACT — until I found XLD link

Try it, I highly recommend it.

It converts from .Flac to apple lossless or anyone of a lot of formats in one step, so you can just import the Apple loosless file dierctly into iTunes.

PS. And it is freeware.
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Ok so, I donwloaded that XLD, but, it doesn't work

When I convert a file, it works, then when I ope then converted file (say I converted one of my ALAC files to an MP3) the song is like 3 seconds long.

What do I do?
 
sou1 so1di3r said:
ok I got MAX and it works great for MP3, but when I try to convert from FLAC to ALAC, it just starts and then says error...:confused:
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That's odd -- I'd post this question (with more specific details) on the forums over at sbooth.org (the Max website). I use exactly this configuration (flac -> apple lossless) for ripping my cd's on a linux workstation and then converting to apple lossless for archival and listening to with iTunes. The folks over there will definitely be able to help you get it going.
 
For the original posters purposes (flac to applelossless) I'd use XLD. (Even though I do occasionally use xACT for other stuff).

A one step process that handles files in bulk, will keep tags in tact, and even do high resolution files (24/192 etc) while keeping it purely lossless. If you would like it can spit out the results in an iTunes directory structure (just set the file format to something like "%A/%T/%n %t" from memory).

If you're confident the original was tagged to your liking, you can get it to immediately add to the iTunes library. But I generally prefer dragging the files in myself once I know its all organised the way I like it.

Also if you are, or ever become, a member of a community that likes a certain type of breakfast or has a title that consists of the beginning of a question. They will accept the .log files created by xld when ripping physical media when they assess the quality of your rip.
 
I use Audiofile Engineering's Fidelia to play FLAC files, then go through sBooth's MAX to convert to ALAC for iTunes/iPod/iPhone. Max has album cover support through Amazon and tagging which I like, and it seems a tad more friendly than XLD.

PS Fidelia seems cheaper on the Mac App Store.
 
... or just use the official FLAC tools to convert .flac to .wav and then iTunes to convert from .wav to .m4a.
 
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