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ashkaul

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Nov 6, 2011
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I had some music in flac format which I converted to Apple Lossless (m4a) using dBpoweramp on a windows PC. I then copied it to my iTunes music library. The track plays on my PC in itunes, however, when I sync either my iPhone 4 or iPad 2 to the iTunes library the m4a track does not get synced to either of the devices and I get a message saying "the track did not get copied because this iPhone / iPad can not play it."

Both devices are updated to iOS 5. Another relevant piece of info is that this is a single track but it is pretty long - about35 mins (750 mb). It's actually the rip of the entire side of a Vinyl record and is unsplit into separate tracks.

Would be grateful for any advice.
 
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ashkaul

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 6, 2011
6
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Solution: ALAC not syncing to iphone / ipad

I had some music in flac format which I converted to Apple Lossless (m4a) using dBpoweramp on a windows PC. I then copied it to my iTunes music library. The track plays on my PC in itunes, however, when I sync either my iPhone 4 or iPad 2 to the iTunes library the m4a track does not get synced to either of the devices and I get a message saying "the track did not get copied because this iPhone / iPad can not play it."

Both devices are updated to iOS 5. Another relevant piece of info is that this is a single track but it is pretty long - about35 mins (750 mb). It's actually the rip of the entire side of a Vinyl record and is unsplit into separate tracks.

Would be grateful for any advice.


Issue resolved - The problem was the sampling rate. The flac file was at 96000. iPhone cannot handle more than 44100. Downsampled the track and now it syncs fine.
 
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