I spy touhou musique :O (nice winamp skin though)

In any case, I forgot about foobar's iPod plugin. You could certainly give it a whirl and see how you like it. And there's always plenty of themes to go around if you don't feel like making your own (deviantart is a good place to start)

United States6173 Posts

April 27 2010 07:47 GMT

#24

On April 27 2010 08:15 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_dop

Works fine with my iPhone.

Why in the world would you compress FLAC -down- to mp3s :3 Enjoy the lossless quality! You can't be -that- pressed for HD space.

I would do so because lossless quality music doesn't have any noticeable difference when compared to high quality MP3s. I remember even reading of tests done on supposed audiophiles who honestly couldn't tell the difference between the two. The differences are only going to show up at high levels of hardware which I both do not possess nor have the money to possess. Anything below that will only show the weaknesses of your hardware, rather than enrich your actual musical experience.

I mean yeah, sure, 128kbps MP3 sucks, but who encodes at that bitrate nowadays anyway, lol. But I mean really, I have an internal mid-range Creative sound card, a mediocre set of overpriced Creative headphones I bought without doing any research (like an idiot), and a set of 4.1 Altec Lansing speakers I got in combination with a Dell computer I bought like a good eight years ago. I can hear the difference between FLAC and MP3 (and I've spent a good amount of time listening for the difference), and I just didn't find it worth the extra hard drive space and the headache of having to a) figure out how to configure iTunes to work with FLAC, or b) having to get used to and configure a new media player for the few FLAC albums I have.

Honestly, the hard drive space itself is a considerable issue. I have more than 16k songs, totaling to more than 53 days of music in varying MP3 quality...that's more than 130GB as it is. As of now, my music collection uses up a relatively small amount of my overall storage compared to my other media (photos, pictures, video, etc), which is already getting kind of tight. I have more than two terabytes of storage available after formatting between three hard drives...and adding another one any time soon for the sake of FLAC is really not something my wallet is particularly excited about -_-.

FLAC is nice to have, sure, and I'm sure it, or some other lossless format, will eventually become the general standard, but I also hope that by that time we'll be seeing 100TB hard drives go for less than $100 as well ^^.

intrudor

Canada446 Posts

April 27 2010 18:29 GMT

#25

130GB managed by iTunes on a NON-MAC machine lol
that must be painful

Amnesia

United States3818 Posts

April 27 2010 18:31 GMT

#26

You must have quite the ears. Anything beyond 192/V2 I can't even tell the difference.

intrudor

Canada446 Posts

April 27 2010 18:33 GMT

#27

Flac is like buying $350 sneakers, you think you're gonna run faster or jump higher....so when you actually run and jump normally, you feel like superman.

Carnivorous Sheep

Baa?21242 Posts

April 27 2010 19:27 GMT

#28

On April 28 2010 03:31 Amnesia wrote:

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You must have quite the ears. Anything beyond 192/V2 I can't even tell the difference.

On a rock or pop song I usually can't tell the difference, but I have a set of decent headphones and listen to a lot of classical where the difference is much more pronounced.

It also takes time to transcode though, I would never go through the hassle.

United States6173 Posts

April 27 2010 23:18 GMT

#29

There's definitely a more pronounced difference in classical recordings, but even that's usually not that desirable...at least for me. Most classical recordings of an ensemble more than two instruments in size are of complete garbage quality in the first place, and those minute details that really stand out between one format and the other end up not really being of issue anymore.

margie

1 Post

February 17 2012 10:06 GMT

#30

Here is an easy way to convert flac to apple lossess alac
http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/how-to-import-flac-to-itunes.html

Candadar

2049 Posts

February 17 2012 14:02 GMT

#31

Sorry, but I would like to ask this since this thread is already bumped by Mr. 1 post above me.

Does Foobar have auto-tag? I download a lot of music, and a lot of times it is tagged inappropriately and Winamp does it for me with just like two clicks of a button. That's basically a deal breaker for me if it doesn't :/

Also, if it has a built in file converter that'd be even cooler. Winamp is being buggy as fuck lately so I kind of want something else, you know?

happygirlbaby

United States1 Post

August 10 2012 03:08 GMT

#32

In order to import FLAC to iTunes, we will need to convert FLAC to Apple friendly audio formats.

If you care the quality of the output audio, converting FLAC to Apple Lossless audio is recommended. You can visit this guide for converting FLAC to Apple Lossless at http://itunes-converter.blogspot.com/2012/02/flac-to-itunes-converter-how-to-import.html.
then import FLAC to iTunes for enjoy or for sync.

If you do not care about the quality of the music, you can convert FLAC to MP3, a versatile audio format across system and devices then import the converted FLAC files to iTunes. You can find the step by step guide at http://audioconverters.blogspot.com/2011/12/how-to-convert-flac-to-apple-lossless.html

Azera

3800 Posts

August 10 2012 03:25 GMT

#33

Yeah like what many others has said, ALAC is the way to go. It's a pain, but necessary if you want that lossless quality. Kinda sad that fb2k doesn't work on Macs (AFAIK)