[NeObliviscaris]

Does anyone know how to do this, I have tried to convert the flac files to mp3, wav and m4a with no luck

wud prefer to keep it lossless

 

[RAQemUP]

Have you tried using the music converter in dBpoweramp?

 

[iriverdude]

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wud prefer to keep it lossless

Can the ipod actually play 24 bit 96khz files? If it can't you'll want to downsample to whatever the ipod supports.

 

[Calexico]

I don't think it can. I have Bon Iver's Blood Bank in 24/96 ALAC and it doesn't transfer onto my iPod.

 

[NeObliviscaris]

dbpoweramp wont convert it to anything it keeps having an error, how can i downsample to alac?

 

[xaval]

Can you convert to WAV as is and then from WAV to ALAC?

dBPoweramp sometimes doesn´t like certain files for no apparent reason... I use mainly ogg/flac and sometimes it just refuses to convert! I have to resort to other converters to get the job done

Edit: I use Goldwave sometimes and it can play with up to 24/192 rez so you should be good to go here, but you need WAV/FLAC first since it can´t do with ALAC.
Also, this is a bit far fetched but, what's the file size? If it's larger than 4 gigs you'll NTFS drive for it.

 

[krmathis]

The iPod's don't support a sampling rate higher than 48Khz. They support a bit depth of 24-bit though.
In short, you need to down-sample to ex. 24-bit/48Khz.

Can't comment on applications though, as I am not that familiar with MS Windows.

 

[JOR]

24/96 FLAC files will transfer and play with no problem on an ipod running Rockbox.

 

[Bonthouse]

Yeah, and if you take a look at his sig you'd see that he has an iPod Classic (un-rockbox-able).
My guess would be that you first downsample it to 48Khz, and then convert it to ALAC with dbPowerAmp

 

[chongy5]

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Originally Posted by JOR /img/forum/go_quote.gif 24/96 FLAC files will transfer and play with no problem on an ipod running Rockbox.

Unfortunately OP doesn't have an iPod that supports Rockbox.

 

[krmathis]

Quote:

Originally Posted by JOR /img/forum/go_quote.gif 24/96 FLAC files will transfer and play with no problem on an ipod running Rockbox.

Ok, but Rockbox don't support the iPod Classic which the OP have...

Welcome to Head-Fi!

 

[frsp_1]

You can convert to AIFF without much loss. Unfortunately, you are going to have at least a bit of loss as you need to down sample to 48Khz/16bit but that is strictly a limitation of the iPod...

1. In iTunes preferences, under the "General" tab, click "Import Settings"
2. In the "Import Settings" dialog box, select "AIFF Encoder" from the 'Import Using' drop-down. Then select "Custom" from the 'Settings' drop down.
3. In The "AIFF Encoder" dialog box select "48.000 kHz" from 'Sample Rate' drop down, select "16 bit" from 'Sample Size' drop down and select "Stereo" from 'Channels' drop down.
4. click "OK" to close the 'AIFF Encoder' dialog
5. click "OK" to close the 'Import Settings' dialog
6. click "OK" to close the iTunes preferences dialog

select your 24/96 songs in your iTunes music library, right click the selection and select "Create AIFF versions" from the drop-down menu...
after churning away for a moment, you should have AIFF versions of your 24/96 songs that can be added to your iPod.