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I'm wondering if anyone has a clean, painless workflow for losslessly transcoding FLAC files to their equivalent ALAC? It's supposed to be a bit-perfect conversion, meaning it shouldn't be very hard, but.... it is.
Why would I do this? (Before the OS folks eat me alive) Mainly, because an audio app that I use (Serato Scratch Live) does not support FLAC, and despite the constant prodding of users over the last five(!) years, most likely will not for a while. They did, however, hack together ALAC support
Also, it would seem that getting iTunes to play FLAC files (and properly downconvert them to use space efficiently on my iPod) is pretty much impossible.
The only catch is that I'd like to preserve some weird, offbeat meta tags (BPM and song key) that would be a bit painful to regenerate. I'm down with anything on Windows or Linux
Thanks
Tom
I tried to use the static build of ffmpeg in windows 10, it can convert acodec alac but it can't convert vcodec h264 although h264 is a supported format in
ffmpeg --codecs
– user1022209 – 2019-02-10T10:25:27.6701An excellent, comprehensive answer. Thank you – Tom Corelis – 2011-08-04T05:10:44.977