iTunes question

[silverpig]

I have a lot of flac files on my computer. I want to keep them as flac and listen to them from my computer as flac. I've got iTunes on OSX and have used a plugin to import them into my library and they play fine.

I also have an iPod. I'd like to put some of this music on the iPod. The problem is it won't accept flac files, and I don't want huge lossless files on my iPod anyways. I'd love a way to drag the files to the iPod, then have iTunes convert them to .aac as they get dumped on.

The closest thing I've been able to do is to convert the flac to aac in iTunes and then drag them over myself. The problem here is now I have my original flac copy on my computer, along with an aac copy. It'd be a pain in the ass to try to figure out which ones are aac if I did this to a large number, and delete them later.

 

[EvilYoda]

Rockbox? Native support FTW.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Rockbox? Native support FTW.

I dunno if I want to do that to my iPod Touch 😛

 

[EvilYoda]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
Rockbox? Native support FTW.

I dunno if I want to do that to my iPod Touch 😛

Ah, see, you never said the magical word "Touch"...you only said "iPod". 😛

 

[umrigar]

dude... XLD FTW.

http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html

you can use it to rip audio CDs, too.

in fact you can set the prefs to convert to multiple formats in one batch!

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: umrigar
dude... XLD FTW.

http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html

you can use it to rip audio CDs, too.

in fact you can set the prefs to convert to multiple formats in one batch!

I don't have any problem converting, I want to convert on the fly as I sync to my iPod without having a stored conversion file on my computer.

 

[scootermaster]

I'm just impressed you got flac files to play on iTunes. Never been able to do that.

 

[Keitero]

It's either you keep two copies (one Flac, one Apple Lossless) or go to Apple Lossless. For most, Apple Lossless is good enough. The iPod Touch/iPhone won't have flac support officially. Jailbroken units might be a different story but so far I have yet to see any support for Flac files. Regular iPods will play Flac just fine with a third-party firmware.