Hi Christine, Sorry, I can't help being a bit sarcastic when it comes to ITunes. I really think switching to vlc is good advice. I just can't stand anything about ITunes. It seems to have worked for you too, so hopefully we're good.
As far as getting the music onto your phone, there's dropbox, ICloud, that program that was free for a weekend a few weeks ago which let you browse your phone in an explorer on your computer… ITunes is not the tour de force it used to be. Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks it's awful. :) You do need to install flac support for your I device though if you want to play the tunes on your phone without converting. I haven't checked out ways for doing that in a couple of years, but some one probably has an answer. Have fun, Erik Burggraaf Follow my series of articles about setting up a small business through the ontario disability support program at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 or on the web at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com On 2013-05-16, at 8:05 PM, Christine Grassman <cgrassman1...@gmail.com> wrote: > So if I download and install VLC, how does this impact my pre-existing iTunes > library? Does this also mean I will not be able to get these tunes onto my > iPhone? > > Christine > > 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 at http://www.erik-burggraaf.com/blog >> Ebony Consulting toll-free: 1-888-255-5194 >> or on the web at http://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. >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> >> > > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
