Any good program to convert other lossless files to apple lossless?

[nutkicker]

I have a lot of .ape, .flac, .tta, wavpack, and wav files that i want to convert to apple lossless so that I can play it on my ipod. Besides dbpoweramp and itunes, what other program can convert all those to apple lossless?

 

[ljs]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think foobar can do the job.

 

[Mher6]

Pardon me if I'm hijacking your thread (I'm trying not to), but does anyone know of a program to encode FLAC > mp3? I'm sure there's a program out there that does FLAC > mp3 and apple lossless, as well as many other formats.

 

[Bastet]

Mher6: foobar definitely can do FLAC -->mp3 conversions. But I doubt that it can do ALAC encodings natively. Apple lossless is a bit tricky concerning encoding w/o some sort of native Apple software I think.
The only way to get it to encode ALAC would be this one but you do still need to have ITunes installed for that.
dBPowerAmp is probably your best choice.

 

[grawk]

quicktime pro with appropriate plugins

 

[vranswer]

DBPoweramp does convert ALAC to FLAC, but I haven't tried it the other way. If you do that, you may have to use iTunes to do a second step ALAC->ALAC conversion.

My Meizu M6 will not play FLACs converted by DBPoweramp from ALAC format. I have to take the extra step of running a same-file conversion using Foobar, as in FLAC->FLAC. The resulting files play fine. May just be a quirk with the M6, but thought it was relevant to discussion.

 

[scompton]

foobar: flac or whatever to aiff
itunes: aiff to alac

I was looking for the same thing and most of what I read on Hydrogen Audio and the foobar web site implied that anything working with alac can have problems, since it is a closed.

 

[scompton]

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Originally Posted by grawk /img/forum/go_quote.gif quicktime pro with appropriate plugins

Where do you get plugins for quicktime pro? The reviews for quicktime pro from PC users on the Apple web site are pretty bad. They're mostly about converting video, but I would be afraid of some of the same conversion problems with audio.

 

[sinsiang]

If you have a mac, then it's very easy use http://www.sbooth.org/Max/. The alac will be like ripping cds from itunes as it uses core audio in mac to rip.

siang

 

[ywd]

I just convert to WAV then use itunes.

 

[Skylab]

DBPoweramp will transcode FLAC>ALAC. It actually has to "launch" iTunes in order to do it, but it's very simple, and very effective (and of course it's lossless transcoding). Better than converting to WAV because you don't lose ID3 tags.