Any update on this? I'm looking at buying a macbook pro but not interested if I have to spend years transcoding my FLAC files. Is there a plugin for Itunes/quicktime that will read FLAC there days?
A perfectly valid reason for not using iTunes is that it wants to add things to the library instead of just playing files it is given. When you want to work with 200gb+ of tracks already sorted by directory on external drives this just doesn't work.