FLAC in iTunes

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boead

FLAC in iTunes
« on: 18 Apr 2007, 08:09 pm »
For those who want to use iTunes to play FLAC.

Xiph has a nice plug-in for iTunes/Quicktime that will read an Ogg wrapper.
http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/

Multi-Plugin 2.5 for iTunes 7
http://www.aqua-soft.org/board/showthread.php?t=41188
Is a plugin for iTunes that will let you choose Foobar2000 as its playback engine. The sound improvement over iTunes is significant. \

Unfortunately, iTunes will not recognize the FLAC wrapper (*.flac).

The FLAC Frontend ripper has an option for converting WAV’s into FLAC with the Ogg wrapper (Ogg/Flac) and retains the ID tags.

So with the two plug-ins above, you can play a Ogg/Flac (*.ogg) file with iTunes through Foobar2000.

« Last Edit: 21 Apr 2007, 05:01 pm by boead »

boead

Re: FLAC in iTunes
« Reply #1 on: 18 Apr 2007, 08:09 pm »
Right now (as of 4/20/2007) Multi Plugin 2.5 will only work with iTunes7 up to version 7.0.2. The developer will have a newer version out soon enough. I uninstalled the newest iTunes version and re-installed version 7.0.2 without any problem. The uninstall process leaves the library intact so after downgrading nothing in the library was lost including the album art and license – sweet!!

FLAC Frontend (v1.7.1) will not work properly under Windows Vista.

FLAC Frontend will not convert FLAC files into Ogg/FLAC files.

You can convert WAV’s to Ogg/FLAC and then tag with Foobar or the retail version of dBpoweramp Music Converter.

Foobar2000 (v0.9.4) can quickly and easily tag an entire album from Freedb.

iTunes sees the Vorbis tags BUT not the track number (strange). You can add the track number in iTunes but its nto part of the file, just in the iTunes library.
Not such a bad thing really.

You can convert the Ogg/FLAC files into any other file and retain the tags. Yeah, now there really isn’t any reason to use WAV.
« Last Edit: 20 Apr 2007, 12:50 pm by boead »

boead

Re: FLAC in iTunes
« Reply #2 on: 20 Apr 2007, 12:52 pm »

Been playing FLAC files in iTunes7 through Foobar2000. Quality is absolutely fantastic.

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