1. Playing Flac Files On Mac

This FLAC to ALAC converter for Mac supports for batch conversion, meaning that you could input multiple.flac files and convert them into ALAC files at one time. 'Merge into one file' option is available in the bottom right of the screen, allowing you to combine. Apple Lossless (refalac) MP3 (LAME) Please note that this pack includes only encoders that we are legally allowed to distribute; that excludes AAC encoders (included AAC encoders require external applications providing actual encoding functionality).

Add FLAC to iTunes by Installing a Plug-in on Mac. There's a simple way to add FLAC to iTunes on Mac, that is to install a plugin that would allow you to add FLAC to iTunes without the need of converting FLAC to iTunes compatible format. Fluke is a plug-in designed specifically for iTunes on Mac OS to add FLAC to iTunes.

Another helpful file conversion tip.

FLAC is a lossless audio codec that is very popular on Linux and on Windows. However, it’s virtually non-existant on the Mac, which is a problem if you have a library of music that you have encoded in FLAC and you want to upload to your iTunes library.

There are various command-line solutions out there on Windows, but very few available for Mac OS X.

XLD is the answer.

The “X Lossless Decoder” offers super fast conversion of various lossless formats on the Mac, with a decent GUI, and better yet, drag-and-drop conversion.

XLD supports the following formats:

• (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg)
• Monkey’s Audio (.ape)
• Wavpack (.wv)
• TTA (.tta)
• Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 and later]
• AIFF, WAV, etc

Other formats supported by Libsndfile are also decodable. XLD uses not decoder frontend but library to decode, so no intermediate files are generated. All of the supported formats can be directly split with the cue sheet. XLD also supports so-called ’embedded’ or ‘internal’ cue sheet.

Currently you can choose output format from WAVE,AIFF and Raw PCM. In addition, you can choose Ogg Vorbis (aoTuV), MPEG-4 AAC (QuickTime/CoreAudio), MP3 (LAME), Apple Lossless, FLAC and HE-AAC (aacPlus v1/v2) in the GUI version.

Hope this helps you audiophiles out there converting to the Mac. I converted entire albums from FLAC to Apple Lossless in just minutes on a PowerMac G5.

I don’t know how this escaped me for so long, but I just discovered a plugin for Mac OS X that allows iTunes to read and play FLAC files. It’s call Fluke. Very easy to install and use. And it’s free.

I used to use a program called COG as the player for my FLAC files. It worked alright, but I’ve had problems with it. So I switched to playing album by album with VLC which doesn’t have a functioning library browser. For the amount of music I have on this computer and hard drive, I really needed a browser like iTunes. Fluke allows me to play my MP3’s side-by-side with these FLAC files. My library size just increased by more than 30GB!!!

You can read up on and download Fluke right here.

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Playing Flac Files On Mac

In other news, these new Beatles remasters sound amazing. Listening to Past Master Volume 2 at the moment. “Rain” and “Lady Madonna” sound particularly incredible.