FLAC on 6th Gen ipoD??

[Malakei]

Hi there, does anyone know of any firmware or software loadings for the 6th gen ipod for FLAC support?? I much prefer FLAC to 320mp3 and am curious if this will ever be supported on my ipod

 

[fatman711]

I don't think you can right now as rockbox isn't compatible with the 6gs...yet

 

[Calexico]

You could transcode to ALAC if you want.

 

[Malakei]

his the apple lossless codec any good?? also what program would be the best to do this with and how much time does it take on avg per song/album?

 

[Malakei]

soo annoying, maybe someone will switch me there 5.5G 80g for my 6th gen :/

 

[Malakei]

oh and one other thing im using pc not mac i believe MAX is the program of choice for mac but i dont know if its for pc as well someone gimmie a hint

 

[roebeet]

To confirm, 6G (and 7G) iPod classics are not Rockboxable, and may never be. And FLAC is not supported on the OF.

As for ALAC conversion, I don't have an answer - I strictly use FLAC. Sorry!

 

[mambo5]

hmmmm i too am curious about playing flac on high capacity portable players.

Any other flac playing players with monster storage capacity, like 80gb?

 

[Singapura]

I've converted all my FLAC files to ALAC with DBAmp. There's no noticable difference between the two lossless codecs.

 

[roebeet]

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Originally Posted by mambo5 /img/forum/go_quote.gif hmmmm i too am curious about playing flac on high capacity portable players. Any other flac playing players with monster storage capacity, like 80gb?

I know Cowon and Archos offer 80+ GB players (the Archos 5 and the Cowon A3 come to mind. The Archos 5 has a recent firmware update to accept FLAC / Vorbis). If Rockbox is your thing, there are few options except to mod an iRiver / Gigabeat / iPod 5G to accept a larger drive.

 

[Zarathustra19]

iPod won't support FLAC, and Rockbox isn't even working on it seriously. Your only real bet is to transcode to ALAC using something like DBpoweramp.

 

[PeterDLai]

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Originally Posted by Singapura /img/forum/go_quote.gif I've converted all my FLAC files to ALAC with DBAmp. There's no noticable difference between the two lossless codecs.

... as there shouldn't be! They're both lossless formats!

 

[krmathis]

6G iPod and FLAC are not possible.
Cause the Apple firmware don't support FLAC, and 3rd. party firmware like Rockbox don't support the 6G iPod.

As several others above I recommend you convert your FLAC files to Apple Lossless. Besides dbpoweramp I am not aware of any MS Windows application allowing you to do the direct transcode.

 

[edart]

Free studio manager converts beetween many formats!

 

[Kicksonrt66]

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Originally Posted by PeterDLai /img/forum/go_quote.gif ... as there shouldn't be! They're both lossless formats!

I've never used Apple, but noticeable differences in other lossless formats can include tagging and whether/how well they do random seeks.
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