[Agent Kang]

Since iTunes does not support FLAC, I always have to go through the trouble of converting my FLAC into ALAC, which is both cumbersome and a waste of precious hard drive space.

I'm seriously considering converting and storing all my music into apple lossless. Anyone else here use Apple Lossless as their format of choice?

 

[Redo]

Nope, but I don't have any need for iTunes either. When I did use iTunes, I had my FLAC collection backed up to mp3 that iTunes could use.

 

[Agent Kang]

So do you use Rockbox or a different DAP?

 

[roastpuff]

I use it because I have an iPod and a Macbook Pro - and I'm too lazy to use EAC etc.

ALAC does just as good, I think.

 

[ken36]

I have a Mac and I use itunes and Apple lossless. I have never used any other codec, because I'm not smart enough to try anything else. Also, I'm pretty happy.

 

[Redo]

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Originally Posted by Agent Kang /img/forum/go_quote.gif So do you use Rockbox or a different DAP?

I use neither. My computer is hooked up via digital coax to my receiver which has outdoor speakers hooked up to Speakers B. I like a good interface for family and friends to control the music outside, so I used to use iTunes. I now use Windows Media Center since installing Vista, both are based on my mp3 backup (I have album art for my entire music collection).

 

[grawk]

I use mac and alac, and use Max to convert when I have flac files to convert or cds to rip.

 

[Agent Kang]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redo /img/forum/go_quote.gif I use neither. My computer is hooked up via digital coax to my receiver which has outdoor speakers hooked up to Speakers B. I like a good interface for family and friends to control the music outside, so I used to use iTunes. I now use Windows Media Center since installing Vista, both are based on my mp3 backup (I have album art for my entire music collection).

I'm completely happy with FLAC for my home rig, since I use a squeezebox as a transport hooked up via digital coax to my Kora Hermes II.

It's my music listening on-the-go that's causing me headaches.

 

[Pangaea]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ken36 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have a Mac and I use itunes and Apple lossless. I have never used any other codec, because I'm not smart enough to try anything else. Also, I'm pretty happy.

Could not have said it any better.

 

[Quaddy]

its a pesonal choice, i used to keep flac and alac side by side, then i went all alac and then went all flac!

i now like the control over the compression level and fine tuning the tracks with flac

but i reckon i'm about due to go back to alac!

 

[BigSurSpoon]

To me, there really wasn't any difference. But I just went with ALAC because I have an iPod. Worked out perfectly.

 

[Agent Kang]

Is there a way to covert directly from FLAC to ALAC? Right now, the only method of conversion that I know of is FLAC->WMV->ALAC, but doing this means bye-bye to metadata.

 

[BigSurSpoon]

Well, the files have to be uncompressed to be recompressed, so I think you're stuck. dbpoweramp converts from FLAC to ALAC in 1 click, but there is the conversion to wav in there too. I'm not sure if the metadata is preserved though..

 

[Caribou679]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agent Kang /img/forum/go_quote.gif Is there a way to covert directly from FLAC to ALAC? Right now, the only method of conversion that I know of is FLAC->WMV->ALAC, but doing this means bye-bye to metadata.

You can use:

1-the search engine of Head-Fi

2-EAC
3-DBpowerAmp

regards,

 

[immtbiker]

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/

then click on dBpoweramp Music Converter. Does everything and does it fast. One month trial and then, less than $30.

I took a great deal of files stored in .flac for my Transporter and converted them into .alac for my iMod.

It converts an album's worth from flac into alac in less than 30 seconds and they should be of equal quality.

No muss, no fuss! Stress free.

Also, forget about iTunes and use a free drag and drop program.

Drive space is cheap and getting cheaper or just delete your alacs from your hard drive when you finish transfering them.
You can reconvert them again if something ever goes wrong with your source.