Best way to sync iPhone AAC library with home FLAC library?

[imom]

I'd be grateful if someone could suggest a good way to do the following:
I have a large local FLAC library, all manually meta tagged, etc, and that is for home listening. I add 1-5 albums a week to that collection.

I would like to have an AAC library synced with the FLAC library so that I can easily add new albums to my iPhone playlist and sync selected music to the iPhone that way. The conversion would need to embed album art as well as I have no embedded art in my FLAC files.

At the moment, everything is done in a very manual and messy way. I tried to use the Apple Music app to import my FLACs directly but this didn't work so at the moment I have to manually transcode to AAC using XLD (which does the album art embedding at the same time) then import the newly transcoded files into Apple Music and then add the albums to the iPhone playlist in Apple Music and then sync the playlist with the iPhone.

I am really looking for a syncing approach rather than batch converting the whole library every time, which takes all day.

There must be tons of people wanting to sync lossless music at home with lossy music on their iPhones so I feel there must be a better way, right?

(Note: I don't stream music from Apple or have any wish to use their cloud service )

 

[imom]

In case it helps anyone else, I discovered WALTR 2 which makes all of the above much simpler as you can drag and drop a FLAC album onto the app interface and it will convert the album to ALAC or AAC (user selectable) and add it directly to the music library in the iPhone. Huge time saver!