FLAC to M4A conversion

iTunes will not convert it for you... but you can easily do it yourself using ffmpeg.

http://ffmpeg.org/download.html

Here is an example:

M:\flac>ffmpeg -i "M:\flac\Left Side.flac" -acodec alac "M:\flac\Left Side.m4a"

The solution is so simple, Apple rather keep to their own proprietory formats instead of actually providing a service to their customers to pay loads of money for their hardware.

It seems that iTunes does not support FLAC at all, let alone to automatically convert FLAC to M4A. If you prefer to convert FLAC to M4A, you need a FLAC to M4A Converter to help you. There are many converters online. You can choose one that suits you.

From an articl which informs us how to convert FLAC to M4A without any quality loss, I learn that:

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio coding format for lossless compression of digital audio. Because of the nature of royalty-free and lossless high quality, FLAC is quite popular today. Unfortunately, the playback support of FLAC format is limited in portable audio devices, especially iTunes, iPhone, iPod and iPad.

Compared with FLAC, M4A file is a MPEG-4 Audio File with AAC or ALAC codec, and has a much better compatibility with Apple devices, since it is developed by Apple. What's more, the size of M4A file is smaller than FLAC. Better still, converting FLAC to M4A (with AAC codec) will not loss too much quality, or without any quality loss if you convert FLAC to M4A with ALAC codec. That's why more and more people choose to convert FLAC to M4A.

Can't seem to edit previous post. Anyway, also found an app:

Using Max

Download from https://sbooth.org/Max/ or source from GitHub.

Regards,

D.