Comments on: How to: Make FLAC encoded music play in iTunes

By: Simon Harris

Simon Harris — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:23:12 +0000

The free PlugPlayer app will allow you to play FLAC files on you iPad, I use this app on my gen1 iPad and iPhone 3GS to play FLAC files stored on my LaCie NAS.

I would also like a ‘plugin’ so that I-Tunes will play the FLAC files on my NAS

By: john

john — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:57:17 +0000

The best and professional way to play FLAC on iTunes without quality loss is to convert FLAC to WAV (if your FLAC is 24 bit, convert Flac to WAV)or convert FLAC to Apple Lossless. Converting FLAC to 320kbps MP3 is will also give good audio quality as well as small file size.

Here is how you can batch convert FLAC to WAV, Apple Lossless ALAC or 320kbps MP3 on Mac, Snow leopard, Lion and Mountain lion:
http://www.techisky.com/how-to/convert-flac-mountain-lion.html

By: emily

emily — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 06:40:05 +0000

In order to import FLAC to iTunes, import FLAC to iTunes 10.4.1/iTunes10.6, iTunes Match, and stream FLAC to iCloud, a recommended solution is to convert FLAC to Apple friendly audio formats so that you can play FLAC with iTunes, iPad, the new iPad 3, iPhone and iPod, etc

By: John Davis

John Davis — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:53:02 +0000

The best way I’ve found is X Lossless Decoded (SLD):

http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html

Excellent software and continually upgraded.

By: Bobby Brown

Bobby Brown — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:36:06 +0000

So what you’re indicating is in order to enjoy a good quality audio tracks (Flac) in iTunes you need to compress them down to lesser quality? Why bother using iTunes at all? Just play your Flac files using a program such as Decibel. http://sbooth.org/Decibel/

By: DudeGuy

DudeGuy — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:45:52 +0000

Try these out:

http://xact.en.softonic.com/mac for xACT

or http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html for XLD

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:31:00 +0000

So… this article is *NOT* about how to get FLAC files to play in iTunes. It’s about how to convert your FLAC files to a different format. Kind of a misleading title.

By: Eytan

Eytan — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:36:07 +0000

Mike, that looks awesome, but it will not support playback on apple idevices, only on desktops. As far as I can tell without jail breaking your devices ithe only options are to either convert the files to ALAC or to use a dedicated iOS FLAC player. Regardless, iOS devices will not take advantage (yet, current generation) of sample rates higher than 48 KHz nor sample sizes larger than 16 bit…

By: Eytan

Eytan — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:27:29 +0000

I would recommend the frequently updated and (unlike max) rock solid XLD http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html (you can read about it here: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=XLD ), or the long standing and well supported xAct (http://xact.en.softonic.com/mac, updated more recently than that site) long befor Max. Max has not been updated in years and crashes frequently when trying to do multiple files. Additionally, both XLD and xAct use the Sparkle API for in app automatic updates.

By: Mike Milton

Mike Milton — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:26:43 +0000

http://www.channld.com/puremusic/