Has anyone been able to confirm if FLAC support is coming with the release of Leopard? I've got my entire music collection in FLAC now and am in the early stages of planning an upgrade to my HTPC. If FLAC support is on it's way (either with iTunes or within the OS itself) that will clarify my plans. Right now using FLAC with a mac is really no fun at all....
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FLAC support in Leopard?
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unfortunately i don't see any reason why it would. i love FLAC as much as you, but apple seems dead set on Apple Lossless, and there's no reason they'd introduce support for a format competing against one of their own, no matter how standard it is these days.
Use xACT for encoding/decoding. SlimServer works well for the server side of things. Play will play 24bit FLACs, and Cog is fine for 16bit FLACs.
Songbird is shaping up nicely now too.. that'll also play FLAC. Its a more heavyweight solution than Play though.
http://www.songbirdnest.com/
http://www.songbirdnest.com/
Don't know how I missed that one!Extremely unlikely.
However, the increased adoption of Macs makes a solid FLAC quicktime component more and more likely, which would at least enable playback in iTunes and QuickTime.
If nothing else, you can just xAct them to aiff, then import them into iTunes with Apple Lossless. At least the whole process will be, well, lossless!
However, the increased adoption of Macs makes a solid FLAC quicktime component more and more likely, which would at least enable playback in iTunes and QuickTime.
If nothing else, you can just xAct them to aiff, then import them into iTunes with Apple Lossless. At least the whole process will be, well, lossless!
Max can convert FLAC files directly to Apple Lossless. It is what I have been forced to do for a while now.
TV to stream my music in FLAC format.
Any word on flac support?
Any word?
Form what i've read, iTunes won't play nice previously, if you wanted to import flac you have got already. It'll create ALE (Apple Lossless Encoded) versions from cd's fine, but hasn't played nice with someone wanting to import their flac collection from elsewhere (PC, mediamonkey, foobar etc)
Any word?
Form what i've read, iTunes won't play nice previously, if you wanted to import flac you have got already. It'll create ALE (Apple Lossless Encoded) versions from cd's fine, but hasn't played nice with someone wanting to import their flac collection from elsewhere (PC, mediamonkey, foobar etc)
