muitommy Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 i dunno if people in insanelymac will be insane about lossless audio and feel loyal to itunes lol, if you're not itunes hardcore, you could really feel free to try any one of these players .."Play" or "Cog", but if you do, here is a remedy to help you handle lossless FLAC. Hoping that there will be a way to handle ape too since those are very common in emule ________________________________________________________________________________ _________________ What we’re gonna do is get iTunes to play FLAC files natively. That way, we can convert them right within iTunes to Apple Lossless for playback on iPods, preserving all the tags and bypassing the stupid .AIFFs. That is good. So, here we go. From HERE ................... Okay. So next time you want to convert your FLACs, just go through steps 7 to 10 and you should be good. It is somewhat semi-automatic due to the necessary step of running Set to OggS, but still beats the longass way I had to do it.Oh, and in step 9, you can set the encoder to MP3 or AAC instead of Apple Lossless. In the guide I kind of assumed that if you got FLAC files, you are probably an audio maniac like me and find the quality of MP3s atrocious.Enjoy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
theotherone Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 Man, what a bunch of mess! Using FLAC in iTunes is as easy as downloading MAX (free as in beer), drag your FLAC Files to it, click "convert" and in a few seconds you have APPLE Losless or MP3 or whatever you like which you can then drag to iTunes... Thats it, so why bother with this incompatible stuff, just leave flac out of iTunes and your files move back and forth between iTunes and iPod. MAX is a godsend, don't forget to donate while you there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/#findComment-669116 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted March 16, 2008 Author Share Posted March 16, 2008 well, i'm only concerning about a direct drag and drop ... the XLD is good and quite the same too, you agree? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/#findComment-669161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
netkas Posted March 16, 2008 Share Posted March 16, 2008 damn, missreading, void post Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/#findComment-669175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starálfur Posted December 13, 2009 Share Posted December 13, 2009 why bother with incompatible stuff? i don't really feel like converting 500GB worth of .flac files Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/#findComment-1357870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fb* Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Use foobar2000 with WINE Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/#findComment-1360000 Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertadam Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 just use fluke and play flac natively Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/#findComment-1361048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerky18 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 VLC also works.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/#findComment-1452859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buster3312 Posted April 21, 2010 Share Posted April 21, 2010 Yea VLC works fine VLC also works.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/#findComment-1452861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANARCHiNTOSH Posted April 29, 2010 Share Posted April 29, 2010 yeah fluke never worked for me, i just use VLC Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/#findComment-1458301 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Binary Arbiter Posted May 14, 2010 Share Posted May 14, 2010 Thanks for this! I am working on my first hackintosh, but my entire music collection is in FLAC. I already dealt with hacking Windows to use FLAC and this will simplify my woes with OSX. Thanks again! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/93878-an-easy-way-to-handle-flac-lossless-audio-in-itunes/#findComment-1467971 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts