Flac in iTunes?
Jun 29, 2006 at 2:10 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 19
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I was wondering if i can get flac files to be played/decoded by the iTunes program? It would save a step in converting the flac files to apple lossless using dbpoweramp
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Jun 29, 2006 at 5:15 PM Post #3 of 19
iTunes will not play FLAC files natively, some conversion is needed. Dbpoweramp is the easiest way I have found. I sure wish that iTunes would support FLAC natively, but I don't see it happening.
 
Jan 19, 2007 at 4:40 PM Post #4 of 19
bump. they've added FLAC support in the latest release...one should be able to listen to FLAC files in itunes now...will check on this later today.
 
Jan 19, 2007 at 6:39 PM Post #5 of 19
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Originally Posted by kugino /img/forum/go_quote.gif
bump. they've added FLAC support in the latest release...one should be able to listen to FLAC files in itunes now...will check on this later today.


For Windows, I have version 7.0.2.16, which iTunes says is the latest version. It does not support FLAC. I tried.
 
Jan 19, 2007 at 7:11 PM Post #6 of 19
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Originally Posted by kugino /img/forum/go_quote.gif
bump. they've added FLAC support in the latest release...one should be able to listen to FLAC files in itunes now...will check on this later today.


XiphQT support the FLAC codec. But only when placed in a Ogg container, not the native FLAC container.
 
Jan 19, 2007 at 7:15 PM Post #7 of 19
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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif
XiphQT support the FLAC codec. But only when placed in a Ogg container, not the native FLAC container.


Which, sadly, is not Native Flac support. In fact, it's really no help at all - I can just keep using dbpoweramp to transcode FLAC to ALAC. I want NATIVE FLAC support, damnit!
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Jan 19, 2007 at 8:26 PM Post #8 of 19
maybe you could try using something other than itunes (although if you are on a mac, I admit there are not too many other options).
 
Jan 19, 2007 at 9:13 PM Post #9 of 19
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Originally Posted by Ross1 /img/forum/go_quote.gif
maybe you could try using something other than itunes (although if you are on a mac, I admit there are not too many other options).


No interest in that. I have 200GB of music in Apple Lossless format.
 
Jan 20, 2007 at 3:17 AM Post #10 of 19
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Originally Posted by krmathis /img/forum/go_quote.gif
XiphQT support the FLAC codec. But only when placed in a Ogg container, not the native FLAC container.


shoot! well, sorry for the "tease"...i thought it was native support. i have my music in ALAC as well, but i thought it might help all you windows users with FLAC files...oh well.
 
Jan 20, 2007 at 2:34 PM Post #11 of 19
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Originally Posted by kugino /img/forum/go_quote.gif
shoot! well, sorry for the "tease"...i thought it was native support. i have my music in ALAC as well, but i thought it might help all you windows users with FLAC files...oh well.


And if they ever do native support, it will be helpful! I rip in ALAC, but there is a lot of stuff I download in FLAC, so it would sure be handy to just leave all that stuff in FLAC. Ah well, someday...
 
Jan 20, 2007 at 4:14 PM Post #12 of 19
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Originally Posted by Skylab /img/forum/go_quote.gif
And if they ever do native support, it will be helpful! I rip in ALAC, but there is a lot of stuff I download in FLAC, so it would sure be handy to just leave all that stuff in FLAC. Ah well, someday...


What is FLAC?
What is ALAC?
Is FLAC/ALAC the same as Apple Lossless?
Has Apple come out with an update to allow one to use FLAC/ALAC on an iMac?
 
Jan 20, 2007 at 4:25 PM Post #13 of 19
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