------------------------------------------------ Why do you think there's greater FLEXIBILITY or PORTABILITY with FLAC? ------------------------------------------------
I've been using iTunes/iPods all this while so ALAC has not presented itself as a problem. But I am certain most of you who are in the same boat must have (at one stage or another), felt like a hostage to Apple. That's why I was seriously considering moving to an open standard like FLAC. ================================================ If you change types.conf so that the file extension you use is assocated with ALC type and not the MOV type. However if any file which uses the same extension is a lossy compression - then it will not play as it will be expected to be lossless. ------------------------------------------------ Thanks BPA. It sounds like it could create more trouble than it is worth, especially when I don't have much time to tinker nowadays. ================================================ You can start by selecting all tracks in your iTunes library and converting them to AIFF. Your base tags will be preserved and you can then throw a FLAC command line option at them to do the rest. When done, delete all the AIFF and ALAC files. Of course, you won't be able to use iTunes any more. ------------------------------------------------ I thought iTunes could play FLAC jaffacake but you are probably right. If it means ditching iTunes altogether, I'll probably need to rethink my move... Thanks for the procedure though. -- dolphin8 Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dolphin8's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17947 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48457 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
