[atomised]

hi all

found some files in the .flac format...which was confusing as i had never come across them! i found vlc to play the files but i would love to know a process to drop them into itunes. did a bit of searching but to no avail, and any help/advice would be great!

[Zimphire]

xACT turns them into AIFF or WAVS.

I usually burn a hard copy as a regular CD and then compress them to mp4s.

[nonhuman]

Shouldn't it theoretically be a lossless conversion to go from FLAC to Apple Lossless? Does anyone know if there's an easier way to do this than Zimphire's method?

[Mithras]

Originally Posted by nonhuman

Shouldn't it theoretically be a lossless conversion to go from FLAC to Apple Lossless? Does anyone know if there's an easier way to do this than Zimphire's method?

I doubt it, as iTunes doesn't read FLAC and nobody else can encode ALE. It'll take a two-step. errr, re-reading: you shouldn't have to burn a CD. Just decode to AIFF and then encode.

[nonhuman]

Originally Posted by Mithras

I doubt it, as iTunes doesn't read FLAC and nobody else can encode ALE. It'll take a two-step. errr, re-reading: you shouldn't have to burn a CD. Just decode to AIFF and then encode.

That's about what I figured. :/

The advantage of burning to CD rather than just converting to AIFF is that then you have a cd to play in the car as well. But yeah, doing it without the cd would likely be easier, especially as you'd need an app that can burn audio cds from FLAC files. Can Toast do that? I'll check when I get home.