FLAC to Apple Lossless

Xrecode II (for PC). I just found it today and tried it out. I compared the converted files to the original files; no difference. 🙂

XLD app works great for me in 10.9. flac>>alac. ..artwork/meta/itunes all works

Follow this guys instructions and works like a charm. i had no issues at all. converted my flac's then imported all to itune automatically. thanks :-)

This worked on maverick.

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After reading this post I decided to try XLD (X Lossless Decoder - website) and did the following steps:

I downloaded xld-gui-20120609.tar.bz2 from the site

I unpacked it

I executed the XLD application from that folder

in the preferences panel that popped up I selected 'Apple Lossles' as the output format.

under File - Open I chose the FLAC files I wanted to convert

done

It took me less then a minute to do so and worked on Lion. iTunes accepted the files.

I agree, XLD is the best. No ugly UI (as far as you need; you simply set the prefs and drag a folder onto it). App gets regular software updates, is multi-threaded and I believe it to be 64-bit.

That said, does anyone know if there is an option to do an in-place container swap? Meaning to change the container where FLAC files reside in and have them in Apple Lossless? This can be done with video through iVI where you can do an in-place container swap of .mkv or .mov to .mp4, for instance.

Can this be done with audio as well?

I just find a professional FLAC to Apple Lossless Converter which has both Mac and Windows version.

It can easily:

• Convert all kinds of FLAC albums, podcasts, downloaded FLAC audio, FLAC library and etc with high output audio quality.
• Convert FLAC to Apple Lossless on Mac OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard, Leopard and Tiger;
• Convert FLAC to ALAC on Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP;
• Convert FLAC to AIFF, WAV, AAC, AC3, MP3, WMA, OGG, AU, RA, DTS and etc;
• Convert other audio or video to Apple Lossless Audio Codec like convert AU to ALAC, WAV to ALAC, MP4 to ALAC, MKV to ALAC and etc;
• Edit FLAC to get customized Apple Lossless audio files like increase audio volume for the output ALAC files, adjust sample rate for the output Apple Lossless audio, change the output ALAC audio channel between stereo and mono.

Is it possible to do an in-place container swap from Apple Lossless <> FLAC, like we can with iVI for video, or are the audio data in different formats anyway, making this impossible?

FLAC and ALAC are both lossless and will sound identical. Even FLAC has advantage than ALAC since FLAC is open source while ALAC is powered by Apple. Why many people still want to convert FLAC to Apple Lossless? The reason is FLAC is incompatible with Mac, iTunes, iPhone, iPod, iMovie, QuickTime, etc, but ALAC is. Meanwhile, converting FLAC to ALAC will keep the 100% original quality. That's why more and more Apple users choose to convert FLAC to ALAC.

Here is a widely used way to convert FLAC to Apple Lossless for you.

http://www.foobar2000.org/

http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack

Will do what you want for Windows users of iPods etc

while the UI is crude, its free and I tried some SACD and DVDA content at up to 24-bit 192K and it converted it properly.

so now the contempt I have for MP3 and AAC has grown even larger, lossless is the only way to enjoy music

http://www.mediahuman.com/audio-converter/ this is the best converter I have come across for MAC.

I have tried many but this does what is needed.