Play Lossless FLAC Audio Files in iTunes with Fluke for Mac OS X
By Alexander Grundner |
June 3rd, 2008
Comments (3)
Many of you are familiar with Perian, “The swiss-army knife of Quicktime,” that allows users to playback all sort of media codecs not originally supported in Apple’s Quicktime. However, one of the big missing pieces – if your into open-source and free software – is the lack of support for lossless FLAC audio files (though Perian does support OGG Vorbis). Enter Fluke: a freeware open-source Mac OS X utility that installs the components necessary (XiphQT, FLACImporter, and Set OggS) for iTunes to playback FLAC files natively without conversion. Not bad utility to have if you prefer to save you CD music collection in a lossless format instead of a compressed format like MP3 or AAC.
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:51 am
The only bummer with this is that you can’t share the flac files across your network or to AppleTV. They are only locally available. Still killer though …
August 1st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Fluke works for me….and no disrespect…BUT I just found a MUCH better way of dealing with FLACs.
Download the free application X Lossless Decoder (XLD) and you can just drag your FLAC’s onto XLD’s icon…and it will quickly convert the file to ALAC (Apple Lossless Codec) so you can play it on your iPod or iPhone as well as your computer!
It also supports cover art!
http://tmkk.hp.infoseek.co.jp/xld/index_e.html
August 28th, 2008 at 5:32 am
Fluke is surely better than X Lossless! X Lossless doesent import the tags corretly in Itunes so you have to write all your tags manually!
But dear developer!
Please remove “Autoplay” thats only a pain…. Please make one version without!
Thanks for your good work!