[orthobiz]

I have the New Pornographer's Challengers album Executive Edition and I have downloaded both mp3 and FLAC content. Seems like the Mac doesn't play FLAC files? And when I downloaded them, the icons for each song indicate that it's a Toast Titanium file.

Anyway, can I somehow burn or rip a CD from the FLAC files and play it on my Rega Saturn?

Thanks,

Paul

[Crimson]

Max.

[Panelman]

I have the New Pornographer's Challengers album Executive Edition and I have downloaded both mp3 and FLAC content. Seems like the Mac doesn't play FLAC files?

Thanks,

Paul

The free Cog software program plays FLAC on Mac.    http://cogx.org/

[orthobiz]

Thanks Panelman, Cog works great! I was up and running in less than 60 seconds...

But what about having all of this lossless info? Is there any way to burn a Redbook CD from the FLAC files?

biz

[IronLion]

VLC player also plays FLAC files. 

[dburna]

I am a long-time PC user who has gotten completely fed up with the Microsoft environment.  We have one Mac at home and we will have another when I replace my aging laptop in my music set-up. 

One question: has anyone compared and contrasted the various FLAC-compatible player options on the Mac?  If so, which ones really shine w.r.t. to audio quality and user-friendliness, especially when managing a large library of tunes encoded in FLAC (I've got about 55k songs and counting)? 

One more question: do these multi-format players require any particular configuration (e.g. to turn on/off switches) to maximize sound quality?  I'm thinking of this in comparison to iTunes, where there are a few sampling parameters that people have noted as having significant impact on sound quality.

Thanks in advance for any insight.

-dB

P.S. Thanks for for getting this forum going.  Highly useful and much appreciated.

[Crimson]

One question: has anyone compared and contrasted the various FLAC-compatible player options on the Mac?  If so, which ones really shine w.r.t. to audio quality and user-friendliness, especially when managing a large library of tunes encoded in FLAC (I've got about 55k songs and counting)? 

One more question: do these multi-format players require any particular configuration (e.g. to turn on/off switches) to maximize sound quality?  I'm thinking of this in comparison to iTunes, where there are a few sampling parameters that people have noted as having significant impact on sound quality.

Of the three players mentioned in this thread (Max, Cog, and VLC), my vote would go to Max for quality/tweakability, and Cog (first) and VLC (second) for UI (although neither approach the functionality of iTunes).

[orthobiz]

NOW I get it! "Max" is a program.
I thought it was some kinda cryptic answer to my question. d'oh!

Paul

[Panelman]

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Of the three players mentioned in this thread (Max, Cog, and VLC), my vote would go to Max for quality/tweakability, and Cog (first) and VLC (second) for UI (although neither approach the functionality of iTunes).
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Crimson,

how do you use Max to play files? I've only been able to use it to convert files.  Didn't find anything in the Max Help files.
Thanks

[Crimson]

how do you use Max to play files? I've only been able to use it to convert files.  Didn't find anything in the Max Help files.
Thanks

Sorry. My quality/tweakability comment was directed towards its ripping/conversion functions. You're right, it's not meant to be used as a player.

 

[John151]

I have found iTunes with Apple Lossless to be a very simple and safe solution.  I had a number of issues with FLAC files on the PC - some track's would hang while converting to FLAC, and others would hang while playing on the SB3.  I also find the iTunes data base to be much cleaner than FeeDB. 

[Crimson]

I have found iTunes with Apple Lossless to be a very simple and safe solution.  I had a number of issues with FLAC files on the PC - some track's would hang while converting to FLAC, and others would hang while playing on the SB3.  I also find the iTunes data base to be much cleaner than FeeDB. 

I agree. I think the issue here is people switching to a Mac with a sizeable library that they'd like to bring with them. Since iTunes doesn't support FLAC, your options are either convert or use a player that supports FLAC (depending on the amount of baggage and how much spare time you have!).

[sorenj07]

Cog supports FLAC on the mac, and recently added cuesheet support as well.  It is also Last.fm friendly, for those who care. 

[John151]

I have found iTunes with Apple Lossless to be a very simple and safe solution.  I had a number of issues with FLAC files on the PC - some track's would hang while converting to FLAC, and others would hang while playing on the SB3.  I also find the iTunes data base to be much cleaner than FeeDB. 

I agree. I think the issue here is people switching to a Mac with a sizeable library that they'd like to bring with them. Since iTunes doesn't support FLAC, your options are either convert or use a player that supports FLAC (depending on the amount of baggage and how much spare time you have!).

I can relate to that issue.  I am re-Ripping my entire collection.  Lots of work, but it is a chance to clean up the mess of spelling variations, and inifinitum of genres.