You can do the same trick if you have movies that iTunes can’t play like DivX. So if you change filetype that iTunes can accept and you have right QT components installed, iTunes can add your files and play like mp3 or AAC. In this case, you add QT components to import & play FLAC files on QickTime (XiphQT and FLAC import), and set filetype “OggS” by Set OggS.Īdding components to play many kinds of files is very clear and understandable idea, but why you have to “set filetype”? It is because iTunes uses Carbon API, it means iTunes know what file to accept by filetype (this is very Classic way…now iTunes know suffix as well). Idea Two, set filetype to what iTunes can accept. Idea One, adding QuickTime Component to play files by QuickTime. So if you understand why this workaroud works like a charm, you can manage more files on iTunes.
That’s very popular among people that manage movie files on iTunes (indeed). Hi, I add some explanations to this workaround for newbies.
we have that free nano deal here at IU too, but it seems a bit moot since they max capacity at 8gig, is it? How many lossless do you think we could fit on one of those bad boys? :P It’s bad enough that I can’t add an album to my 60gig ipod without taking something off to make room… and I don’t have a lossless lp on it! And now oink is slowly turning me into an audio snob…I was bad enough just being a music snob, but now I shall hate on your music and scoff at your bitrates! So, someday I’ll be like all the other hipsters! Someday, I’ll be cool too!
So pending the results of the diagnostics, I will be most likely on the market for my new notebook–which will be a macbook pro (I’ve already priced it with all the pretty little bells and whistles that I want–gimmie the biggest and fastest baby!). Well, I have to say that I was quite tickled to find this handy dandy guide for the pain-in-the-arse FLAC v.iTunes issue! But then I scrolled down a little further and my joy turned to sadness, as I realized this is an instructional guide for all the cool kids with macs!!īut I’ve bookmarked you anyway because my vaio laptop just took it’s 4th trip to the laptop doctor (laptomotrist?) and will, no doubt, need some ridiculous repair like say….oh, IT’S 3RD MOTHERBOARD REPLACEMENT (in it’s brief 2 year life!!) Damn Sony’s ihateyouihateyouihateyou! Now, on their website, the creators of iEatBrainz failed to mention that it doesn’t fucking work most of the time, so I would end up tagging almost everything by hand.Today, I got seriously pissed off at not being able to instantly listen to A Hard Day’s Night, and instead of ripping the LP like I wanted to, I found a workaround for this.
aiff files, and then putting everything through iEatBrainz, the automatic tagging software which bases its algorithm on a checksum of the audiofile, and not the length of all tracks like iTunes does. aiff files into iTunes, tagging them by hand a little bit, converting the result to Apple Lossless, getting rid of the intermediate. AIFF, effectively doubling the number of song files on my hard drive and getting rid of all the tags entirely then importing those. There have been rumours support for it will be present when Leopard comes along, but I think we’ll more likely see native support for WMA files than FLAC.Before today, the method I used to use was: I would take the album in FLAC, put it through xACT which would convert it to. Now, while I support the great idea of open lossless that is FLAC, Apple has really been a bitch about implementing it into iTunes. Some time ago I had acquired a collection of certain Beatles recordings in FLAC format (65 pounds of Beatles vinyls on my shelf keep me guilt-free), and since the only lossless format iPods would play was Apple Lossless, converting to that format was my only option. Neither Fluke nor the instructions will work for Windows users though, sorry.
UPDATE: I have created Fluke which makes playing FLACs through iTunes on a Mac much easier.