Comments on: FLAC support in Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard”

by: bART

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:50:43 +0000

What’s up with iTunes?
Break the monopoly!

Play Flac, Ape, Wv, … files native with Cog: fast reliable player.
Convert files with Max
Best of all “import” your cd with XLD: kick es program

Trying something different is always a refreshment at least!

by: Edu Camargo

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:47:14 +0000

Well, seems that Sbooth’s applications work as great alternatives for the mac user regarding flac, ain’t it? At least the mac OS does not prevent people from installing software that is capable of doing things that Apple apps don’t. Just for curiosity because I’m futurely migrating to Mac; is “Play” a great software? I hope that yes. Currently I’m using Windows and my jukebox application is Foobar2000. Its decent flac support is a breeze. I have a lot of positive references about “Play” and “Cog”, so I think that these apps will help a lot. But another point from you will help even more.

Thanks.

Edu.

by: More-eazy

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:24:21 +0000

So drag the flac files to toast audio cd burning
and there you go. then burn to image or Cd up to you
this image will contain the aiff files you can simply drag in Itunes

by: More-eazy

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:20:18 +0000

Why bother with the slow FLAC conversion, simply burn a CD with the ID3 tags intact! in toast or whatever program, they all recognize FLAC, that’s the whole point.
and then import this cd in itunes after that. This is as rapid as any cd import!!
As easy as things in heaven!!

More-eazy- Making life more eazy…

by: Nabeel

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:35:08 +0000

Am I the only one who can’t get the component to build without errors?

by: Ralf

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:01:44 +0000

“Expect native FLAC file format support in XiphQT soon.” Posted Oct 2007 — your definition of soon, please? Just bugging - really, I appreciate your work and am just wondering if there’s been any progress?

by: Ket

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:29:10 +0000

Using the experimental (dev) downloads from the xiph QT site, there is a FLAC component, that works with the XiphQT component. As long as you drop the encoded FLAC file onto the setOgg application, this imports into iTunes nicely.

I also play back all my FLAC files directly through iTunes (I must admit I’ve used Cog a bit whilst I’ve been too lazy to get my 10.5 installation setup properly).

I’ve also written a small applescript that leverages metaflac (You will need to installe vorbis-tools)

My Workflow:

• Install Developer Tools (one off)

• Install MacPorts (one off)

• Install vorbis-tools, flac (one off)

•Max -> Encode CD’s to FLAC

•setOgg -> Set FLAC files to the correct format to be recognised by iTunes (I want to write an app that can use the post processing in MAX to do this automatically, but the way setOgg works, it stays open and requires a manual Quit)

•Drop FLAC files into iTunes

•Run Applescript in iTunes to write Track Number, Track Year information to iTunes Metadata.

by: c0nd3mn3d

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:08:54 +0000

Boycott: Perhaps you’ve figured it out by now, but it’s “Mac,” not “MAC.”

by: richarde

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:46:44 +0000

“…Expect native FLAC file format support in XiphQT soon…” Can anyone tell us how this is going? Thanks and keep up the good work!

by: richard

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:06:15 +0000

You can use Max to rip straight to FLAC, complete with tag and album art support. Check it out at sbooth.org.