[Callous]

Hey guys, I'm sure this has been asked before, but for the life of me, I cannot find an answer through the search function.

I have a whole ton of FLAC, and am thinking of getting a bit of it on my iPod via Apple Lossless. What is the ideal program for converting FLAC to ALAC?

Thanks everyone.

 

[tpc41]

I usually use foobar to convert them into wav files, then import them into itunes, then use itunes to convert the wav files to alac. Im sure there must be a program that can do the file conversion directly, but this has been working well for me now.

 

[M3NTAL]

cdex cd to wav then itunes to alac - that is how I do it. or cdex flac to wav then itunes to alac

 

[M3NTAL]

CDex | Open Source Digital Audio CD Extractor with more than 32,000,000 downloads

 

[scompton]

Don't you loose tagging when you convert to WAV?

 

[HipHopScribe]

I believe dbpoweramp can go directly from FLAC to ALAC.

 

[Tokenganjaclan]

XLD

 

[Callous]

Thanks everyone, going to try out a few different methods and see which suits me best.

Quote:

Originally Posted by scompton /img/forum/go_quote.gif Don't you loose tagging when you convert to WAV?

Yeah, realized that once I got through a few albums. Method works perfect, except all tagging is lost.

 

[scompton]

What's needed is a way to export tags, convert, and import them. It may exist, I don't know that much about tagging software. I use iTunes for the most part to edit tags.

 

[omendelovitz]

Quote:

Originally Posted by HipHopScribe /img/forum/go_quote.gif I believe dbpoweramp can go directly from FLAC to ALAC.

x2 - it is assanine to use any other converter, especially when dbpoweramp processes batch files w/o restriction in its freeware version.

 

[krmathis]

I find Max to be perfect for this task.
* Easy to set up.
* Free (open source).
* Transfers metatags.
* Great UI (imo).

 

[graben]

x3 dbpoweramp, easy and fast

 

[donunus]

x4 dbpoweramp multi cpu support too

 

[Agent Kang]

I remember Dbpoweramp having problems with alac files skipping tracks in ipod. Has this issue been addressed and corrected?

 

[jonathanjong]

x2 Max. Max is awesomeness is a small package. Not just transfers metatags, you can batch add them too.