[uzziah]

how do i get my flac tracks to aac for itunes and my new ipod shuffle?

course i want to keep a copy of flac

 

[blessingx]

Trick is keeping the tags. Try DBPoweramp Music Converter.

Supposedly the shuffle has some problems occasionally with non-iTunes/QT encoded AACs. If you run into any problems use DBPowerAmp to go FLAC to WMA lossless, then use iTunes (on Windows) to automatically convert to WMA lossless to AAC.

 

[uzziah]

by "tags" do you mean the names of the songs? i've never understood that term.

i use foobar myself, but it doesn't seem there is an AAC converter

 

[blessingx]

iTunes/iPod uses tags for display titles, artist, track number, etc. and if you have it keep your iTunes collection 'organized' it will rename your files to correspond to the tags.

Other systems use tags for display only or completely ignores them (or has no real standard for some codecs). It's a bit of the database versus file tree structure. Depending on what you use for FLAC playback, it could use tags or not. You may not even have them in the files (in which case iTunes would populate song title from track, but wouldn't know album or artist name). It's always best to have complete tag info in your files if possible.

 

[Andrew_WOT]

FLAC site http://flac.sourceforge.net/links.html#hardware states that iPod support FLAC format via rockbox firmware upgrade. Might be better than converting to AAC.

 

[uzziah]

ah, no thanks. this is the shuffle too. don't think it supports rockbox. not that it would matter, i need a lossy format anyway for space