Hello, I used Bigasoft FLAC Converter to convert the songs to ALAC.m4a, however the song is cut off in iTunes.
I used this converter because from what I understand once in iTunes I can also play them on iPhone or iPod.
Any idea why? Or, if their is another converter I could use that will allow songs to be playable on iPhone etc?
Thanks!
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Try playing the file with VLC or another FLAC-capable application. Was the coding complete? I'm not sure it is iTunes or the file itself.
Hi Limnos,
I can play them in VLC however, it doesn't show the duration of the songs, when I try to "fast forward" it comes up with an error. (flacdec: got decoder error: 3) this may be over my head. I listened to a couple of the songs and they played through to the end.
What I know, I inputed the songs into Bigasoft -as an example, one song duration is 5:59 and after converting it to ALAC ("Success" appeared) it was only 5:00. All the songs were cut short...."Success" appeared for all.
I was wondering if it's Bigasoft?
I would delete the FLAC songs and start again however this album is the only one I can find.
Thanks!
I'd try another converter. There's many free ones out there. XLD does both and is a good free tool. The trick to using it is knowing all the configuration has to be done through application preferences.
Thanks Limnos!
Just to clarify "XLD does both" means I can listen in iTunes and on my iPhone?
In regards to your other statement, "The trick to using it is knowing all the configuration has to be done through application preferences." LOL, what does that mean?! 😕 ...My best guess (by what you mean is;) knowing what format to pick so it plays in both. *Ugh* LOL! We'll see how that goes I guess. 😁
Your help has been much appreciated!
Thanks again.
By both I meant it can read FLAC and it can code to ALAC. There's many free converters out there but not all of them do both FLAC and ALAC.
Download XLD and install it. At first it doesn't look like you can select any formats or output directory or other things. You can though, but you have to look under XLD > Preferences... Usually that kind of thing is in a panel right in front of you but the XLD author didn't do it that way. Once you have set it up to convert from FLAC to ALAC you open the file(s) you want to convert and it starts converting.
XLD is just a converter. Once you have the files converted you have to add them to iTunes, then sync to get them on your phone. XLD is not a music player. All you need for both iTunes and the phone is ALAC.
Wicked! Thanks for explaining further!
Thanks again, very much!
take care.
I use FLAC to iTunes Converter. It is probably at bit more involved than maybe some of the others, but i like it.
You convert FLAC to AIFF, and then to MP3 via iTunes.
Converted FLAC file to ALAC.m4a file; song is not complete
