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I just got a new phone with a lot more space. This means I can put my lossless audio on... trouble is, iTunes doesn't support flac.... There is alac, but I have yet to find a quality converter to convert flac to alac... does anyone know of one?
edit: Sorry, forgot about OS. Windows 8.1
Lillz
Posted 2014-12-07T19:49:59.600
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fre:ac supports FLAC to ALAC.
fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders.
The Core Audio encoder supports AAC and ALAC formats and is available on Windows if you have iTunes or QuickTime installed. Unfortunately, it can only be used with the 32 bit version of fre:ac as Apple does not provide a 64 bit version of the Core Audio framework for Windows, yet. Source fre:ac snapshot 20140223
I am not at all affiliated with fre:ac in any way, I just use it and find that it works for me.
DavidPostill
Posted 2014-12-07T19:49:59.600
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I wonder if that's only on that snapshot version, I tried free:ac with the regular download and it only had AAC --- no option for ALAC. I'll try this in a bit – Lillz – 2014-12-07T21:25:38.097
Images added to show encoder location – DavidPostill – 2014-12-07T21:38:47.637
ah thanks. Yeap, the standard download doesn't have that option, snapshot does. Thanks for the help and not giving the 'google it' 'advice.' – Lillz – 2014-12-07T22:18:07.750
On what OS would you like to do that? What have you tried yourself? Googling gave me a nice hit for OSX as a firstresult.
– agtoever – 2014-12-07T19:58:29.660Whoops, duh sorry, windows 8.1
I've tried a lot of audio converters that support m4a (the extension of alac) but perform a lossy conversion. As I said, I have yet to find a program that performs this operation lossless-y. – Lillz – 2014-12-07T20:00:13.197
Open you favorite browser, enter the words: "windows flac to alac" and there are really a lot of usefull links... – agtoever – 2014-12-07T20:03:16.667
Yeah. Did That already. Tried all of them. Most are adware and worthless and the one legitimate one, dbpoweramp, costs quite a bit. – Lillz – 2014-12-07T20:15:31.427
On Windows you can use foobar2000 and the encoderpack. On Windows, Linux and Mac you can use PowerShell, flac and ffmpeg. Check my post for more details: Convert music files from FLAC to ALAC
– meziantou – 2019-07-16T21:32:26.287