Play FLAC in iTunes with less mess

Great atempt, but seems that it only works partially. How come?

I prefer moving away in favor of independent and more relyable implementations. I am a Windows user and, I enjoy music in flac using Foobar2000 (http://www.foobar2000.org). The most decent support for FLAC I found there. No delays on importing or whatever, gapless playback, support for embedded cuesheets (suitable for making a chapterised flac audio), full support for vorbis comment metadata, embedded and external album art support. Winamp has also a great FLAC support, with a limitation: Its main window and its media library can't deal with multiple values, e.g. if your flac file has multiple artists or multiple composers, its media library and main player just reads the first. Yet, in the edit file info window you can see all the present fields. Although Illiminable offers a great solution for those who want to play their flacs with Windows Media Player, it doesn't give support for tags, and the only one that seems to give some sort of support for FLAC metadata, the WMP Tag Support Extender, crashes. Seems that fluke is in the same position, right?

I'm planning to go for Mac OSX futurely, and seems that great alternatives are in store for mac, like Cog (http://cogx.org) or Play by sbooth.org. If you guys use one of these tools, some aditional tips for the new comer are pretty well appreciated. I think that FLAC has more relyable solutions where it may fit in. Fortunately, there are great people giving their contributions for the increasing popularity of FLAC, and I'm sticking with it, instead of waiting for a solution from a major company, or forcing the app to do what at the present moment it is not capable of doing. That's why the alternatives are for.

Long-live high fidelity!

Peace,

Edu Camargo.

ROCKBOX!

Christina: Give firefly a go, it shows up as a bonjour-compatible iTunes network server and transcodes the FLACs automatically. It also means you don't have to do anything extra to add music, just tell firefly to auto scan your FLAC folder every x minutes and the music will show up when you next click on the entry in the Shared section of iTunes.

It's not perfect (doesn't show number of times played, album art seems to be missing) but it's very easy to use.

fluke works real well-been using it for a while, though it's easier to convert flac to apple lossless, to put it on ipod. however, though fluke lets one play flac easily with itunes, it does not support album artwork
mike, flac works damn well, nothing shoddy about it, robK's got it right. not supporting flac makes it that much more convenient for peeps to buy from itunes store, ergo more $ for apple

FLAC is open source fail. Possibly one of the reasons that Apple hasn't implemented FLAC in iTunes is that there is no full, comprehensive documentation on FLAC. How do you fully implement something when there isn't documentation on it? I'm actually glad Apple has left out support for this shoddy, half-implemented codec.

Hmm, Fluke does not appear to work as described. Dialog box comes up I hit 'yes' to add to iTunes and nothing is actually moved.

why would i want something which is "less hassle-free"??

:p

TwistedFLAC for teh win!

http://twistedwave.com/TwistedFLAC.html

Uses MacFUSE to make all FLAC files show up as WAV's and can be played or converted by anything that reads WAVs (everything). Plus it keeps meta-data. I installed it a few months ago and stopped using anything else.

KRS Juan
CapsGetPeeled.com

Call me when you find a way to allow my iPod to play back FLAC files. Until then, I'll use XLD to convert them to Apple Lossless.

I always use xACT for this purpose

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21952