Hi Christine, VLC will certainly play those files, and is a good program to have on your Mac. The FLAC conversion to another format is only a suggestion if you want to be able to transfer and play the music files to an iPhone or other iOS device, or to an iPod. Another non-iTunes music player that a number of people like to use is Cog, which is free and which will also play FLAC. The URL for Cog is: http://cogx.org/
HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 16, 3:21 pm, Christine Grassman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Esther. I will give Easy Music a whirl, since I would like to > convert, but I did download VLC, and the files are playing perfectly. > > On May 16, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Christine, > > > If you just want to convert the FLAC files to mp3 format in order to > > play it, a number of people have used a new Mac app named Easy Music > > Converter: > > • Easy Music Converter (current price $5.99) > >https://itunes.apple.com/app/easy-music-converter/id572507484?mt=12 > > > This app does fast batch conversions between a large variety of audio > > and video file types. (Oddly enough, AIFF format, which is the Mac > > standard uncompressed format, is not one of the supported types, > > although WAV format -- the Windows equivalent standard uncompressed > > format for sound files -- is supported.) The program will also do > > audio extraction from video files. > > > I think this will be easier for you than using Fluke. By the way, > > many people who regularly use FLAC format for ripping and storing > > music on the Mac (but who are not on the macvisionaries list), prefer > > to use a free program known as XLD (for X Lossless Decoder) to rip, > > convert, and work with FLAC files and cue sheets. XLD will support > > more accurate ripping if you are a music purist, and want to include > > more metadata information (e.g. tags) in the FLAC format files. The > > main challenge for new users is that XLD's command switches follow the > > tradition of terse unix and linux manual page descriptions. So unless > > you want to maintain FLAC libraries and work with cue sheets, I'd > > recommend that you simply convert from FLAC to mp3. If the buzz words > > about accurate ripping, cue sheets, etc. don't convey anything to you, > > then you probably don't want to work directly with music in FLAC > > formats. > > > The program I suggested should be much easier for you to use, and may > > be useful for other purposes. While Easy Music Converter was offered > > for free for about the first day and a half it was introduced in the > > Mac App Store in mid-April, the current price of $5.99 is a relatively > > low price. It just dropped to $5.99 today from $9.99. > > > HTH. Cheers, > > > Esther > > > On May 16, 2:19 pm, Christine Grassman <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> There's a mac app called alltomp3. Will that work? > >> On May 16, 2013, at 7:57 PM, erik burggraaf <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > > >>> Flac stands for free lossless audio codek. They ar compressed audio > >>> files that can be decompressed to the exact specification of the original > >>> audio. No quality loss. > > >>> Apple doesn't support these as far as I know which is a great loss. You > >>> can do one of two things. The Approach I recommend if you really must, > >>> is download fluke and add Flack support to both ITunes and Finder. > > >>> The other approach is to download flip for mac and install quicktime and > >>> then presumably it makes flac happen, but fluke is so easy when it works > >>> that I can't see why you'd want to bother. > > >>> The third option which is what I recommend, is to ditch ITunes and get > >>> VLC. > > >>> Hope this helps, > > >>> Erik Burggraaf > >>> Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through > >>> the ontario disability support program > >>> athttp://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog > >>> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > >>> or on the web athttp://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > >>> On 2013-05-16, at 7:40 PM, Christine Grassman <[email protected]> > >>> wrote: > > >>>> Has anyone ever heard of these? I was just sent some music which has > >>>> flac as an extension. Can these be imported into my music library > >>>> without too much hassle? > >>>> Christine > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
