Playing FLAC files in iTunes with Windows 7 OS.....is it possible?

rudydevolder wrote:

The best FLAC player at the moment is JRIVER media-center on PC, MAC and almost on Linux. It's the only one that plays any audio-format and does any audio-convertion without hickups.😉 And it supports synchronising with IPad & Iphone.

$50 for a media player? Mmmmkay.

The player has to have decompression code, the "dec" part of the word "codec", for the format you wish to play, either incorporated in the player or as an add-on. iTunes has no FLAC decoder, and to my knowledge there has never been a FLAC plugin that would work with iTunes for Windows. If you need to play FLAC and don't want to convert, you'll need to use a different player.

Regards.

that was my alias wrote:

Okay... any suggestions on a FREE player for Macintosh? Don't have the luxury of money at the moment.

Vox is my default player. VLC, Songbird, and Cog are other popular options.

NuMystic wrote:

that was my alias wrote:

Okay... any suggestions on a FREE player for Macintosh? Don't have the luxury of money at the moment.

Vox is my default player. VLC, Songbird, and Cog are other popular options.

I tried Vox about two years ago. Its tiny window, extremely minimalist design and no way of creating a library turned me off. Has it gotten better? And what of Songbird? Are the devs still making updated versions for newer OS? Many programs I knew don't have new stable releases.

On Windows, You have Winamp, Foobar2000, MediaMonkey and J.River Media Center as the popular players with jukebox capabilities. On Mac, you can try Nightingale. It exists for Windows as well, and also for Linux. It is based on Songbird (which was discontinued in 2013) and, at least on Windows, it has better performance than Songbird did. Nightingale was in fact a response from a comunity of Linux users since POTI Inc. has dropped official support for Linux on Songbird. You can even surf the web with this app. It only supports audio files, including... Uh. FLAC.

Yea forget ALAC, FLAC is just a more widely accepted format with that alone making it better. Try Clementine player for your FLAC files on a Mac.

OSX here. thanks NuMystic !! i'm now playing FLAC files in iTunes.

FLUKE for mac is working for me on iTunes 11.0.4 on OS X 10.6.8

I was asking about Flac Player specifically. Will THAT program allow me to play FLAC in iTunes and transfer the files into my iPod touch?

I have one. How does playing an audio file works? What has to be done to make a player "understand", or support a particular format?

Okay... any suggestions on a FREE player for Macintosh? Don't have the luxury of money at the moment.

Ooops... please delete this post.

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