Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Lisette Wesseling
Hi folks, I'm a bit late to the party on this sorry, but I hope it might still help somebody. I just checked, and a little app I bought called mp3 converter converts from flac into mp3. I got it ages ago from the app store for about $5. It's really easy to use, and converts audio and video fi

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Select each track, press command I and go in to each column and there you can rename your tracks and amend the information. It's time consuming. On 17 May 2013, at 03:24 PM, Kliphton A M wrote: > Since whenever I send you a personal message off list, your email treats me > as a spam, but would

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Kliphton A M
Since whenever I send you a personal message off list, your email treats me as a spam, but would you be willing to do a podcast on how to organize your music in a way that fits everyones needs? I for one loved the way windows media player organized my music, but can't find out how to do the sam

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
I'm not bothered about Itunes as I'll use it as I have no problem. However, I'd refuse to use Itunes in a window environment. I am happy with I tunes as I can play my music without worrying. On 17 May 2013, at 02:40 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Lol, > > I know I'm probably going to be in the

Re: Itunes opinions was Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Erik, You and I agree completely!!! 100%!!! I'll manage my own media thank you very much!!! I know you feel exactly the same way as I do. Perhaps it's high time that we who feel this way should write Tim Cook and express our concerns. To speak frankly, (and when do I ever speak otherwise?)

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2013-05-17 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi Ricardo. My main complaint with ITunes is that id does "manage" my media. I don't want it or any player to do that. For example, I have thousands of audiobooks here on a hard drive, many of which have broken or missing tags. Same with music. I have a hole collection of flac files, many o

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Ray Foret Jr
For me, I just hate having two copies of everything, one on my external drive and another in the ITunes folders. I know I can set ITunes to not copy over files when adding to the ITunes Library: however, every single time I tried this, ITunes crashed. While I do prefer the new look of ITunes,

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Ricardo Walker
Lol, I know I'm probably going to be in the minority here but, I honestly don't have many problems with iTunes, Especially on the Mac. Do people not like iTunes because it forces you to handle your music in a specific way you aren't accustom to or, want? Or is there other reasons. Because fo

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Well, if you have Amadeus Pro, you could use batch to convert to .m4a and put that on your Iphone. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On May 17, 2013, at

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Christine Grassman
So, if I want to convert for purposes of getting the tunes on my phone, do I convert to mp3 or m4A, or does it matter -- will either work for iTunes integration? Christine On May 17, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Of course, about the only thing good about ITunes is it's .m4a format.

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Christine Grassman
Oh, I am not much of an iTunes fan, but all things being equal, not being overly tech-savvy (mostly because life doesn't provide the time to learn how to become so), it just seems less cumbersome to deal with it. Christine On May 17, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Of course, about the

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Of course, about the only thing good about ITunes is it's .m4a format. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray Still a very proud and happy Mac and Iphone user! On May 17, 2013, at 6:54 AM, erik burggraaf wrot

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Ray Foret Jr
Of course, another way to get music on to your Iphone is by using Wondershare Mobilego for IOS to be found here. http://www.wondershare.com/ios-manager/ Both Mac and the other version can be found there. Sent from my mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in! Since

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread erik burggraaf
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 dropbo

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread erik burggraaf
You could also do the conversions With max for free from http://www.sbooth.org. Esther, what problem did you encounter with fluke? It's just a driver package. You install it, and then import flac files into your itunes library along side your mp3's. It also adds support for flac to the quickl

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-17 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Will this converter do Midi files? On 17 May 2013, at 02:06 AM, Esther wrote: > 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 $5.9

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Marc Sutton
If you want to import the flac files into itunes and preserve their lossless quality, two programs that work well with voiceover are xld and flac tunes. Marc On May 16, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Christine, > > VLC will certainly play those files, and is a good program to have on > y

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Esther
Hi Christine, VLC will certainly play those files, and is a good program to have on your Mac. The FLAC conversion to another format is only a suggestion if you want to be able to transfer and play the music files to an iPhone or other iOS device, or to an iPod. Another non-iTunes music player th

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Christine Grassman
Thanks, Esther. I will give Easy Music a whirl, since I would like to convert, but I did download VLC, and the files are playing perfectly. On May 16, 2013, at 9:06 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Christine, > > If you just want to convert the FLAC files to mp3 format in order to > play it, a number of

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Esther
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 ba

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Christine Grassman
There's a mac app called alltomp3. Will that work? On May 16, 2013, at 7:57 PM, erik burggraaf 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

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread Christine Grassman
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 wrote: > Flac stands for free lossless audio codek. They ar compressed audio

Re: Flac files inquiry

2013-05-16 Thread erik burggraaf
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