Hi Christine, If you just want to convert the FLAC files to mp3 format in order to play it, a number of people have used a new Mac app named Easy Music Converter: • Easy Music Converter (current price $5.99) https://itunes.apple.com/app/easy-music-converter/id572507484?mt=12
This app does fast batch conversions between a large variety of audio and video file types. (Oddly enough, AIFF format, which is the Mac standard uncompressed format, is not one of the supported types, although WAV format -- the Windows equivalent standard uncompressed format for sound files -- is supported.) The program will also do audio extraction from video files. I think this will be easier for you than using Fluke. By the way, many people who regularly use FLAC format for ripping and storing music on the Mac (but who are not on the macvisionaries list), prefer to use a free program known as XLD (for X Lossless Decoder) to rip, convert, and work with FLAC files and cue sheets. XLD will support more accurate ripping if you are a music purist, and want to include more metadata information (e.g. tags) in the FLAC format files. The main challenge for new users is that XLD's command switches follow the tradition of terse unix and linux manual page descriptions. So unless you want to maintain FLAC libraries and work with cue sheets, I'd recommend that you simply convert from FLAC to mp3. If the buzz words about accurate ripping, cue sheets, etc. don't convey anything to you, then you probably don't want to work directly with music in FLAC formats. The program I suggested should be much easier for you to use, and may be useful for other purposes. While Easy Music Converter was offered for free for about the first day and a half it was introduced in the Mac App Store in mid-April, the current price of $5.99 is a relatively low price. It just dropped to $5.99 today from $9.99. HTH. Cheers, Esther On May 16, 2:19 pm, Christine Grassman <cgrassman1...@gmail.com> wrote: > There's a mac app called alltomp3. Will that work? > On May 16, 2013, at 7:57 PM, erik burggraaf <e...@erik-burggraaf.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Flac stands for free lossless audio codek. They ar compressed audio files > > that can be decompressed to the exact specification of the original audio. > > No quality loss. > > > Apple doesn't support these as far as I know which is a great loss. You > > can do one of two things. The Approach I recommend if you really must, is > > download fluke and add Flack support to both ITunes and Finder. > > > The other approach is to download flip for mac and install quicktime and > > then presumably it makes flac happen, but fluke is so easy when it works > > that I can't see why you'd want to bother. > > > The third option which is what I recommend, is to ditch ITunes and get VLC. > > > Hope this helps, > > > Erik Burggraaf > > Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the > > ontario disability support program athttp://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog > > Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 > > or on the web athttp://www.erik-burggraaf.com > > > On 2013-05-16, at 7:40 PM, Christine Grassman <cgrassman1...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > >> Has anyone ever heard of these? I was just sent some music which has flac > >> as an extension. Can these be imported into my music library without too > >> much hassle? > >> Christine > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
