FLAC

Rybo89 · 15 Dec 2011 at 21:37

What is the best app that supports this? How would you send a FLAC over to it?

Cheers

opethdisciple · 15 Dec 2011 at 21:41

Flac? As in the file type?

VLC can handle flac and is available on mac.

Rybo89 · 15 Dec 2011 at 21:45

Sorry, I'm a moron...

I mean on a iPad 2. Yes the sound file type. That's because mrs was rattling in my ear whilst I was typing :rolleyes:

Cheers

squerble · 15 Dec 2011 at 22:01

Get Tunesify Lite and convert it to Apple Lossless.

Rybo89 · 16 Dec 2011 at 10:51

Ok brilliant, will look into it after work.

Thanks

arty · 16 Dec 2011 at 18:01

I recommend XLD and converting to ALAC. I have done exactly this with my FLAC collection, safe in the knowledge that I can easily convert it back to FLAC in the future should I ever need to

arty

Rybo89 · 17 Dec 2011 at 09:40

Both Tunesify and XLD are only supported on MAC OS, i dont hava a Macbook anymore only windows.

Is there any other programs what will sort this for windows? Cheers

arty · 17 Dec 2011 at 13:05

Apologies - thought you were after Mac software as you had posted in the 'Apple Software' forum

Try foobar2000, the only program I really really miss from Windows. You may also need to install iTunes on Windows if you don't have it already in order to obtain the Apple encoder (though as they've recently open sourced ALAC, this may no longer be true).

arty

marc2003 · 17 Dec 2011 at 13:10

edit: removed. i meant to edit post, not post a new one.

marc2003 · 17 Dec 2011 at 13:15

if using foobar2000, download the latest qaac package from this page...

http://sites.google.com/site/qaacpage/cabinet

extract only the refalac.exe/refalac64.exe file and setup a custom encoder within foobar2000 like this...

Rybo89 · 17 Dec 2011 at 14:15

Brill guys!! Thanks very much!

MikeHunt79 · 22 Dec 2011 at 13:56

I think AcePlayer may support FLAC.

Somnambulist · 22 Dec 2011 at 19:32

There is a FLAC player app I've seen on Head-Fi, but really in terms of functional usage, I'd just convert to ALAC. Converting FLAC tracks with something like XLD (you just have the output settings as Apple Lossless in XLD, then batch-open the FLAC files and it converts them into the same folder) takes a few seconds per track and is what I do with any FLAC stuff I have left from using Windows before I switched to Mac, or free FLAC downloads online. Lossless is lossless so you lose no data or fidelity switching between lossless compression formats.