FLAC Adapter for iTunes



D1ngus
08-05-2015, 03:45 AM
I don’t know if this has been covered already here, or if it’s even the right place to ask, but you all know a lot more about the inner workings of music than I do, so I hope you can help me.
As the title suggests, is there a way that FLAC files can be read and played by iTunes (which is the media player I use most on Windows, Windows Media Player is not much cop, and VLC isn’t working properly)? My phone isn’t a problem as Google Play Music plays them just fine, however, iTunes doesn’t. As I said briefly, I have never really had much luck with VLC (playlists never work for me, think its Windows 8, most if not all of the problems I have now I never had with Windows 7) and I would quite like to be able to use FLAC across my entire collection rather than messing around with the whole "MP3 goes on this device, FLAC goes on that one" thing. Is there a way to do this?

Thank you


starly396
08-05-2015, 05:09 AM
I used to use this app called Fluke on my Mac, but I don’t think it’s supported anymore.

AFMG
08-05-2015, 05:43 AM
Your best bet would be converting FLAC to ALAC. ALAC has the same m4a extension, but it’s actually the propietary apple lossless codec, so converting FLAC to ALAC means no quality loss and you can use iTunes to play those files.

Helix
08-05-2015, 06:35 PM
Try MediaMonkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com/), does the Apple Sync and plays those fat juicy FLACs.

WildwoodPark
08-05-2015, 08:53 PM
Yeah what he says I’ve used MediaMonkey for years for all my stuff.

tangotreats
08-05-2015, 10:58 PM
The obvious answer is indeed to NOT use iTunes… a shockingly bad piece of software that cheerfully flushes away usability for the sake of maintaining Apple’s fascist policy towards things they didn’t create. (A media player that doesn’t support FLAC in 2015 surely deserves every bit of derision it gets.)

Assuming the user is happy with iTunes… this may present some kind of solution – I haven’t tried it but it appears to be the only way that has a chance of making this work. Xiph.Org: QuickTime Components (http://xiph.org/quicktime/)


starly396
08-05-2015, 11:12 PM
What’s better than iTunes?

westrock
08-09-2015, 09:51 PM
What’s better than iTunes?

You will never get a answer to that question.

Only "well this one software handles this ONE or two aspects" better.

But mostly it’s people that think the only way to do something is exactly the way that they do it, and then criticize and accuse Apple for exactly the same thing.


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