That's very interesting. I will give it a shot later in the week when I
have time. 

There are two other options available. 

1) mp3fs: Works similarly to the way your method does i.e. creates a
virtual filesystem based on MacFUSE. But instead of WAVs, the files are
converted to mp3s at a bit rate that you decide. It is useful if you
want to sync parts of your flac collection with a portable audio
player. The mac patch for mp3fs can be found here
http://www.uwe-arzt.de/patchmp3fs . The original mp3fs page is
http://mp3fs.sourceforge.net/ , and of course MacFUSE is a google
project http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/ . As a side note, MacFUSE
also serves as the base for NTFS-3G which lets you finally Read & Write
windows partitions on a mac http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html

2) Firefly media server: This is a DAAP server
http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/ which can be built to transcode from
FLAC to WAV in realtime while presenting metadata in the iTunes
interface. Build instructions for transcoding on a mac are in this
thread
http://forums.fireflymediaserver.org/viewtopic.php?t=7353&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
. Your entire FLAC collection will show up as a shared drive. I've used
this for a few months now - works great, but you can't burn with iTunes
(which is not a big deal).


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