Can iTunes play .flac files? Can it do so natively or be modified to do so? Can it import .flac files, converting them to .mp3 or .mp4 or .aac or something?
Thanks!
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
iTunes can currently read, write and convert between MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG-4, AAC and Apple Lossless (.m4a). iTunes can also play any audio files that QuickTime can play (as well as some video formats), including Protected AAC files from the iTunes Store and Audible.com audio books. FLAC is a lossless format, meaning that FLAC files retain all the audio information of a song, unlike AAC or MP3, which remove some to compress songs to a smaller filesize. However, FLAC format is not a supported format by Apple’s software and devices, like iTunes. This guide from UFUShare.com tells how to convert FLAC AIFF, MP3, WAV, M4A, WMA, etc to to import, add FLAC to iTunes for easy play, open, read FLAC in iTunes.
I agree with Patrick 100%. I too reverted back to 10.7 as I couldn't live without my cover flow. Such a cool feature! Support for .flac would have been an improvement
+1 for iTunes native FLAC support...
Rosetta doesn't work on Mavericks, what should I do? 😟
Anyone? :'(
You could try VOX or some other player that supports .flac, if you have an android based phone, why not forget about itunes altogether?
It's just I like the way Itunes organizes my files automatically and I like its UI 😟
You should try with this free player: http://songbird.softonic.it/
crystalship wrote:
For anyone who has FLAC media files and wants to convert to play on iTunes
simply read the 1st response in this thread from three years ago posted by Jolly Giant.
+1 for flac support in iTunes.
otherwise you might wanna use clementine, which supports flac flawlessly and is FOSS: http://www.clementine-player.org/
Apple, as always, supporting their own, killing the rest.
does itunes support .flac?
