, while i Tunes doesn’t support FLAC files, you can simply convert them to Apple Lossless, retaining the same quality. See this article for more on this conversion., using i Tunes Match or i. Cloud Music Library with lossless files.
Lossless and popular as FLAC though, it isn’t natively supported by i. Tunes ( i. Tunes Alternative) out of the box. Thankfully, if you have the right tool then it’s possible and easy to get your lossless FLAC albums and songs into i. Tunes, and also get some of the associated benefits such as editing FLAC.
Can I play FLAC files on iTunes?
You may want to play these files in i, and tunes., while i Tunes doesn’t support FLAC files, it’s very easy to convert them to Apple Lossless, or ALAC, an equivalent lossless format that i. Tunes does support. Converting audio files from one lossless format to another is lossless; in other words, there is no quality lost when you convert from FLAC to ALAC.
Play FLAC in i. Tunes with Fluke for Mac Fluke is a small FLAC player for Mac, which let you play FLAC files within i, and tunes. You can enjoy the 16 bits/ 44.1 KHz playback, multiple files and folder handling and track number and count support. Fluke play FLAC in i. Tunes by running at the same time as i. Tunes and working hand in hand with it.
You see, if you just downloaded a good chunk of music that is stuck in FLAC, you probably want to load up them on i. Tunes library and play them from there or sync to an i, and phone. Lossless and popular as FLAC though, it isn’t natively supported by i. Tunes ( i. Tunes Alternative) out of the box.
Why doesn’t Apple support FLAC?
Similarly, it is absurd that Apple stillwont support . flac, a free format, presumably because they want people using .alac becaus thats so bloody important… .flac is great because it is a fully taggable format that plays on all platforms- except i, and tunes! Apple’s deliberate “only game in town” schtick is really getting old.
Around 2007 there were several other portable players (from much smaller manufacturers) on the market that offered FLAC support – but despite their massive success, Apple decided to only support their own proprietary, but technically inferior, lossless audio format.
Why should I buy or download FLAC files?
If you buy or download music in FLAC files, you do so because you want the best quality audio files. FLAC files are losslessly compressed, which means that, when you play them back, they are bit-perfect replicas of the original uncompressed files (on a CD or high-resolution files).