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Headphoneus Supremus
Hey friend, your probably using ALAC because your on an iphone, me 2! I discovered that by using an app called Tuneshell I can play flac without converting to ALAC on my phone. I use Ifunbox(if your on a mac) to drag and drop the flac files to the Tuneshell folder, although the app also has a clunky wifi transfer procedure. Finally I use Jriver music management software on my mac so I don't have to use iTunes at all, in fact I've uninstalled iTunes. So happy now! =P FYI, I phone can play up to 24bit/48khz flac files. Now I can just go with the original copies of my flac files and don't have to maintain two copies of every file, one alac and one flac. No more alac for me! =P Also no jailbreaking required.
To keep the thread on track - I love my K10s!
Actually, I chose ALAC for lossless ripping via iTunes. I use Audirvana on both home and office Macs. I sync with my iPhone and set to auto compress to AAC since I don't have enough storage space for lossless. I don't really listen to my music via iPhone much. For portable I manually copy all of my lossless files to my AK240 and then use a utility to convert iTunes playlists to M3U files and copy them over to the AK240 root directory. I do the same manual sync for my office laptop since I no longer use Double Twist. Thanks for the info, I should just get off iTunes and convert everything to FLAC.