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FLAC to apple lossless? possible?

post #1 of 13
10/22/10 at 1:25pm
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Hi i recently purchased an ipod touch and was wondering if theres an easy and free way to convert FLAC to apple lossless or if thats even possible?  would just converting it to 320 be better? i rather not because i like me my lossless.  any help would be greatly appreciated.

if this is an absolutely stupid question i apologize lol

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post #2 of 13
10/22/10 at 1:33pm

You can try this? 

 

http://www.dekorte.com/projects/shareware/SoundConverter/

 

I haven't tried it myself but it was one of many results from google... lmgtfy...

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post #3 of 13
10/22/10 at 1:37pm

windows use dBpoweramp with plugin for m4a (apple lossless,) mac XLD is great.  

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post #4 of 13
10/22/10 at 2:43pm
Thread Starter 

thanks! ill look into both.

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post #5 of 13
10/22/10 at 6:03pm

+1 for DBpoweramp

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post #6 of 13
10/22/10 at 6:41pm

What media player do you normally use for playing your FLAC files?

 

One strategy you could try is to convert a few albums to WMA-Losselss.  Import those files in iTunes (iTunes for Windows will read in and then transcode WMA-Lossless).  Then have iTunes transcode the WMA-Lossless to MP3 (or AAC) to put on the iPod Touch.

 

I haven't tried that configuration myself.  But should work, and worth a quick experiment.  WMA-Lossless is much more Windows friendly than trying to do ALAC on Windows.

 

I use J River Media Center and have J River convert my FLAC files to MP3 (Lame -V0) when syncing to my iPod Classic.  I actually prefer putting high quality lossy on a portable rather than lossless.  And trying to do ALAC on Windows is just too much of a PITA just for a stupid little iPod.

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post #7 of 13
10/22/10 at 7:06pm

FLAC2Mac converts flac files to Apple Lossless.  I've had good results with it.

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post #8 of 13
1/19/11 at 3:38pm
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windows use dBpoweramp with plugin for m4a (apple lossless,)


 

Definitely this. the batch converter is great

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post #9 of 13
1/19/11 at 4:57pm

Windows: dBpoweramp
Mac: XLD

Used to use dBpoweramp but changed to XLD when I got a Mac. XLD is dead simple, drag and drop the FLAC files and they get converted to ALAC almost instantly. I don't remember how hard dBpoweramp was to use but I am sure it isn't much different. Hope this helps!


Edited by coolguyalex - 2/12/11 at 4:00pm
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post #10 of 13
1/19/11 at 4:59pm

+3 dBPoweramp

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post #11 of 13
1/20/11 at 1:51am

Ive been using dbpoweramp for the last 2-3 years with no problems

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post #12 of 13
1/20/11 at 7:16pm

I too believe in dBpowerAMP and it's wonderful batch converter. It's so easy it's almost fun. Not only that, but you can use the added bonus features to do additional processing during the conversion (like adding replay gain to each file). Oh, but it costs money. :(

 

Best $38 I've spent.....

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post #13 of 13
1/20/11 at 9:27pm

Xrecode is a free alternative to dBPowerAmp.

 

http://xrecode.com/

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