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

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.

by: Casey Leedom

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:46:38 +0000

I’m not a major fan of the way that Apple acts sometimes but it still hasn’t risen to the likes of uSoft or, in my mind, even worse, Google.

However, all those soft fuzzy feeling aside, the Mac OS/X interface and tools are simply the best when it comes to ease of use and, usually, completness and integration. uSoft comes in a close second and Linux isn’t even on the horizon.

In particular with respect to the current issue, if you use iTunes to import a CD, it invariably has better information (tagging, etc.) for the CD versus any of the other tools. If we could RIP straight to FLAC life would be great. But, instead, we RIP to AIFF, transcode to FLAC losing the tags in the process, and then labor mightily to reenter the tagging information that the AIFF->FLAC tool so carefully threw away.

My housemate is in the process of RIPP my and his entire collections onto a local RAID array for our squeeze box. This is something on the order of 5,000 CDs. He made good progress through my ~650 pop/rock CDs but the classical CDs are making his life miserable since almost none non-iTunes tools have any information on them and he’s having to enter all of the information by hand. My classical collection is only about 150 CDs. His is considerably larger. (sigh)

Casey

by: Boycott

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:41:50 +0000

Why not simply boycott MAC/iTunes products. As nice as MACs are Apple is increasingly behaving like a microsoft. Try Linux, I did and I haven’t looked back.