What is the best FLAC component for QuickTime?

Try this : http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
And this : http://www.videolan.org/

Lots more on the internets : [os x flac player|http://www.google.com/search?&q=os x+flacplayer

Gerben Wierda wrote:
A friend asked me for help. She wants to download Flac (free lossless audio) files to listen on her Mac. What codec is best for her?

iTunes (and QuickTime) cannot as standard play FLAC files. There is a way to get iTunes for Mac to do this but it is a fair amount of work and you would not be able to transfer the music to an iPod or iPhone.

I recommend getting a utility to convert the FLAC files to Apple Lossless (Apple's equivalent to FLAC) which can be played by QuickTime, iTunes, VLC, all both on Mac and Windows, and it is even possible to add a plugin to Windows Media Player, WinAmp, dbPowerAmp, Foobar 2000, and others to also play Apple Lossless.

For the Mac two suitable conversion utilities are Max see http://sbooth.org/Max/ and XLD (X Lossless Decoder) see http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html