Re: [slim] Flac and ??? or Apple Lossless (ALAC) and iTunes?

2017-06-27 Thread stereoptic
pippin wrote: > I doubt it but when iTunes supports FLAC it should be able to transcode > to upload the files to the iPod, isn't it doing this today, too? hmm, I think you're right. stereoptic's Profile:

Re: [slim] Flac and ??? or Apple Lossless (ALAC) and iTunes?

2017-06-23 Thread pippin
I doubt it but when iTunes supports FLAC it should be able to transcode to upload the files to the iPod, isn't it doing this today, too? --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at

Re: [slim] Flac and ??? or Apple Lossless (ALAC) and iTunes?

2017-06-23 Thread stereoptic
pippin wrote: > Spare it. > From September on iTunes and iOS will support FLAC, too. Has there been any statement regarding whether the iPod software will be updated to be able to play FLACs? I still use my 8 year old iPod Classic iPod in my car.

Re: [slim] Flac and ??? or Apple Lossless (ALAC) and iTunes?

2017-06-20 Thread garym
Major advantage of FLAC over ALAC: FLAC has built in error checking. So one could point and click a couple of times and run a batch check on many thousands of files to learn whether any file is corrupted. This is not available for ALAC. *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.9 > Transporter,

Re: [slim] Flac and ??? or Apple Lossless (ALAC) and iTunes?

2017-06-20 Thread pippin
Spare it. >From September on iTunes and iOS will support FLAC, too. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 9, the Universal App for iPhone, iPad and

[slim] Flac and ??? or Apple Lossless (ALAC) and iTunes?

2017-06-20 Thread Rainer Krug
Hi I am aware, that both are lossless so there are no differences in quality and conversion between them is lossless. So no trouble there. But I am thinking, as I am living in the Apple Ecosystem, if a conversion of my music, which is mainly in flac, to ALAC would make sense. Direct import