FLAC codecs

GingerNinja1989 · 15 Jun 2008 at 14:19

Hi all, I'm new to playing with FLAC, and I may be barking up the wrong tree, but is there such thing as a FLAC codec for iTunes? Purely to save using different apps for different songs.

Ta.

LeperousDust · 15 Jun 2008 at 14:27

Read this and this, but i would suggest ditching iTunes and getting a decent music player, and/or management software. I use Foobar (for opening things up directly from within windows explorer) and MediaMonkey for jukebox stuff eg. sorting, playing, queueing music etc...

GingerNinja1989 · 15 Jun 2008 at 14:29

I had a funny feeling someone was gonna tell me to ditch it lol! Trouble is, I have a lot of my choons in the .m4p format (or whatever the purchased one is!). Thanks for the speedy reply!

EDIT:Should've mentioned I'm using Vista!

LeperousDust · 15 Jun 2008 at 15:08

Pretty much no then

Its s shame MediaMonkey doesn't support mp4 (one of the very few formats it doesn't support). Foobar does though AFAIK not sure what it does with the DRM though. Its bad that they tie you in with their service, but iTunes really isn't all that great

GingerNinja1989 · 15 Jun 2008 at 15:53

Yeah, tell me about it lol, but I've been stuck with it since the folks got me an iPod for crimbo a while back. Never mind then, cheers anyhoo...

Greenlizard0 · 15 Jun 2008 at 16:39

Is a FLAC codec needed in at all? I use "Free MP3 CD Ripper" which appears to rip my cd's to FLAC and there was no seperate download of a codec.

Also I use 0% compression yet the bit rate is slightly variable, sometimes 909kbs sometimes 960kbs I'm not even sure what FLAC is supposed to be ripped at? :confused:

platypus · 25 Nov 2008 at 08:18

I tried Media Monkey, and it seems nice enough, but once I'd added all my music to it, it just crashes on loading. Very irritating.

I guess its trying to get FLAC working in iTunes then. Problem is I don't really like iTunes, and as far as I know it doesn't support .ape or .ogg. and is bloated and fairly slow. That said, it can cope with over 100k songs.

Will_3rd · 25 Nov 2008 at 08:24

There should be a FLAC plugin for Quicktime which iTunes uses for media playback.

Will see if I can find it!

Matteysan · 25 Nov 2008 at 08:55

Pretty sure Winamp plays Mp4, Ogg & .APE

To the compression I usually use Compression Level 8 for FLAC.

platypus · 25 Nov 2008 at 09:17

Yeah I use winamp for playback, but I'm looking for a "media manager" because I have so much of the bloody stuff. iTunes picks up about 40,000 tunes because about 75% of my media is in FLAC

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platypus · 25 Nov 2008 at 09:18

Will_3rd said:
There should be a FLAC plugin for Quicktime which iTunes uses for media playback.

Will see if I can find it!

FLAC is my biggest file format, but I also have ape and ogg, are they supported in iTunes?

Still, be awesome if you could find that plugin.

Matteysan · 25 Nov 2008 at 11:39

From a quick Google I found this http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/ Don't know if it will help or not though

platypus · 25 Nov 2008 at 12:56

All I could find was FLAC Plugin for Mac.

Thats ten times better then I found Mattey, will try it out. Cheers!

platypus · 25 Nov 2008 at 13:11

Ok well I installed it..can't add FLAC files to iTunes. Do I need to activate it in some fashion?

platypus · 25 Nov 2008 at 18:14

Hmm, I installed the Xiph Ogg/Flac Quicktime plugin, and it just stopped iTunes loading, saying QT isn't installed properly :/

Matteysan · 26 Nov 2008 at 09:06

Ah sorry to hear that

Sorry it wasn't much use, it looked good at the time though :/ I would have checked it but I refuse to have itunes on my comp

platypus · 26 Nov 2008 at 09:14

Yeah looks like I'll have to remove it after all

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Last time I removed iTunes though it stopped my dvd drive working..

platypus · 3 Dec 2008 at 15:49

Bumping this again in a hope that someones managed to get it working

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Vista 64, iTunes 64, Quicktime, Xiph QT plugins, and FLAC.

Ah, just read the release notes; they're working on native FLAC support

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leezer3 · 3 Dec 2008 at 16:04

Media Centre 13 does both FLAC & m4p (Or any other iTunes purchased format) if thats any help

Payware yes, but far better than anything I've ever found.

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php

-Leezer-

Hamster · 3 Dec 2008 at 21:50

platypus said:
Bumping this again in a hope that someones managed to get it working .

Vista 64, iTunes 64, Quicktime, Xiph QT plugins, and FLAC.

Ah, just read the release notes; they're working on native FLAC support .

platypus - are you saying that you've not been able to play FLAC at all within vista64? I was running vista64 until a few weeks ago and was able to play and encode FLACs no problem.