FLAC to Apple Lossless

I downloaded Max and it worked great for MP3, but when I try to convert FLAC to ALAC, it just starts and then says error. I finally end up to download bigasoft flac converter

http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/how-to-convert-flac-to-apple-lossless-audio.htm l

Hi, You probably fugure it out by now.
but if anyone else is wondering.
I useFLUKE to play FLAC on iTunes and then I just convert in itunes to apple lossless. it's very simple actually.
hope I could help.

I would agree with the recommendation to use XLD. I have used MAX and XLD and while they both do the job but XLD seems to be a 'living' software with regular updates and I don't remember the last time I saw an update from MAX. I think the developer is focused on a software player that works with iTunes he developed.

XLD works great and it can be set to Transcode or Import directly to your iTunes library. I believe XLD is the most widely used at least within the audio and music forums I am involved.

Just tried XLD. The UI is crap but it seemed to work ok. I do have an issue though but it seems related to something else. One of the album out of the 3 I've converted can't be imported to iTunes but it works in Quicktime. Seems to be a problem with more than 2 channels (6 on the album).

Amadeus Pro is a great audio editing application that also handles conversions via simple drag and drop interface:

File » New Batch Processor: Choose new format (ACC or Apple Lossless, etc.), Drag and Drop files on to the window, wait a few minutes and you're done.

Check out Amadeus Pro for more info.

Note: Between Amadeus Pro and Screenflow, there is not much I cannot accomplish in terms of audio/video editing and formatting. I highly recommend both of them!

Hi,

I have the same problems with multichannel tracks (see https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3933017?tstart=60)

It looks like this is a bug in iTunes. I already reported this via feedback page. Maybe you should do the same to gain more weight on the matter.

Regards, Cold-1

My dumb, and rather complex, way was to use Audacity to convert to aiff, import into iTunes and then convert to Apple Lossless. Will try XLD. Thanks to all who suggested it.

Regards

Thank you - thank you - thank you - just downloaded MAX and it works in seconds to convert a song.

Super fast - super easy.

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 just purchased FLAC from the App store for $3.99 and worked flawlessly. I have free converters but, this was simple and songs went directly into my iTunes.