FLAC in Quicktime

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FLAC in Quicktime

Anyone know when Apple is going to start native support for .flac encoded audio files in QT/ITunes? I know Apple has their own lossless format, but don't they WANT people to use their software? It would be nice to be able to use Front Row to play my music library. Has anyone heard if/when this will ever be possible?

Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Jan 24, 2007 10:30 PM

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Answer 1

Jan 24, 2007 11:10 PM in response to oconnellc

I don't see it happening anytime soon...

Oh, by the way...nobody in these forums knows what Apple will do...

As I stated above...don't see it happening...

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oconnellc Author

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Jan 25, 2007 12:57 PM in response to David M Brewer

Just curious why you think that way... I guess inside I sort of had this hope that maybe some of the product managers at Apple might read these forums to at least get some sort of idea about what concerns the users (the vocal ones, at least) had about their software. I have read elsewhere somewhere on this site someone saying that they had heard that Apple had begun work on this. Supposedly, at one point in the past, ITunes did support flac.

Anyway, thanks for your time.

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Ricktoronto

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Jan 25, 2007 4:04 PM in response to oconnellc

I have read 000's of posts here and this is post #1 for FLAC so even if they did read it you are in a bit of a minority. People complain at times why they don't support MPEG 1/2 or the ancient MS codecs, and the answer is simple, they don't want to and they don't view QT as a jack of all trades product.

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Jan 25, 2007 5:02 PM in response to oconnellc

http://damien.drix.free.fr/qtflac/
Apple did address those audiophiles concerned about quality versus compression when it introduced Apple Lossless audio codec in 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAC

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oconnellc Author

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Jan 25, 2007 6:58 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Funny. Did you notice the last item in the 'To Do' list from your first link: Wait for iTunes support

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Jan 25, 2007 8:58 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Did I miss something...I found no were in those link that Apple will or maybe support FLAC...

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oconnellc Author

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Jan 26, 2007 6:05 AM in response to David M Brewer

Sorry. Just a small joke on my part and on the part of the author of the content at http://damien.drix.free.fr/qtflac/

If you go to that site, the author lists the latest changes that they made to their software and then they list a 'To Do' list. The last item in that to do list...

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Answer 8

Jan 26, 2007 7:25 PM in response to oconnellc

Yes to do list...but not an Apple to do list..

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