Play FLAC files on iTunes?

[Xylitol]

I was wondering if anyone could hook me up with a codec (that what its called?) to make .flac music files playable in iTunes.

Thanks
Xylitol

 

[ndee]

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/ind...2d0cf335c249bea2&showtopic=17290&st=25 ?

 

[Xylitol]

Well does anyone have a .flac to .mp3 / .wav / .acc / .etc iTunes converts CONVERTER?
Free / Doesnt give me crap like cutting off after 10 seconds or other things?

Thanks

 

[CKent]

Converters are just frontends .. nevermind, this isn't in the proper forum, I won't bother.

 

[dbk]

nvm

 

[Baked]

Why not just use Foobar2K for both FLAC and MP3?

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: Baked
Why not just use Foobar2K for both FLAC and MP3?

I finally upgraded to v 0.9.4.1, it's definitely become more user-friendly. Pic of my current setup.

 

[Baked]

Nice. Did you have to mod the interface or does that interface come as default or option in the preferences?

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: Baked
Nice. Did you have to mod the interface or does that interface come as default or option in the preferences?

Have to mod it, but you can easily set up the panel positions and sizes now

 

[chcarnage]

You need a FLAC component for your Quicktime codec collection to play FLAC in iTunes, this isn't easy but apparently possible.

First, install XiphQT, this allows you to play OGG-containered FLAC files (and OGG in general).

Second, install the FLACImport component, to add native FLAC support to XiphQT. Be warned, the developer says that FLACImport is slow.

I haven't done this and don't give any warantee but if this doesn't work, a converter should be easier to find anyway.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

I tried XiphQT earlier with iTunes and liked the fact that it let me play OGG files.

As for FLAC, I just used foobar2k to make a CD Image out of the FLAC files, made DAEMON Tools mount the .cue as a CD, then I used EAC and iTunesEncode.exe to make Apple Lossless files out of them.
If you already have EAC installed and know your way around it, here are the command line settings you'll need for iTunesEncode.exe if you want your Apple Lossless files to be tagged properly. Just leave iTunes open while ripping with EAC and iTunesEncode will parse all the tags from EAC over to iTunes and it'll take care of tagging them.
-e "Lossless Encoder" -a "%a" -l "%g" -t "%t" -g "%m" -y %y -n %n/%x -c "%e" -i %s -o %d -d

 

[probzy]

I think it can;t played it.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: Baked
Why not just use Foobar2K for both FLAC and MP3?

because he's a tool who likes crappy software such as itunes. It's understandable that he'd use it on a mac computer, but on a PC, no.

 

[funkymatt]

what about the front end to decode to wav?

link for the lazy