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PH
United States6173 Posts
I use iTunes simply because I like iPods, and tolerate its memory-hogging and bloat for that reason only. The actual interface isn't too bad. I like the way you browse for music in iTunes. That said, I know there are things out there that can make Quicktime/iTunes run FLAC files, but I can't seem to find them for Windows. All the ones I've found have been for OSX. If anyone could point me in the right direction, I'd be grateful.   | ||
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
I have lots of FLAC files but iTunes can't play them. I don't need them on my iPod, I just want FLAC to somehow play on iTunes! This would be useful! | ||
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nineninja9
United States194 Posts
http://www.foobar2000.org/ That being said, if you're set on using Itunes, you might have to do some file conversion. | ||
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5501 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11552 Posts
On April 26 2010 11:17 nineninja9 wrote: I personally use foobar2000 for my music needs. It's fairly lightweight, and there's plenty of components you can download for even more obscure filetypes. http://www.foobar2000.org/ That being said, if you're set on using Itunes, you might have to do some file conversion. ^ there are plugins that let you use iPods or whatever with other media players. | ||
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Wangsta
United States776 Posts
personally, I would just switch to foobar2000 if you use windows/linux, or convert flac to apple lossless if you're on a mac you might not be an audiophile, but im sure youll appreciate the fact that foobar uses less resources than WMP, is more customizable, and can do everything WMP does plus a lot more another option is to get foobar but only use it to convert files. download the LAME encoder and just convert all your flac files to mp3 V0. you wont be able to tell the difference 99% of the time, and that other 1% of the time you'd need a very high end system to tell the (small) difference | ||
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
foobar2000 is a Turbo Charged Bugatti Veyron ![[image loading]](http://img94.imageshack.us/i/foob1.jpg/) Uploaded with ImageShack.us | ||
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HobbitGotGame
Canada178 Posts
On April 26 2010 11:55 intrudor wrote: iTunes and winamp are a second hand Ford Focus and a brand new Honda Accord, respectively. foobar2000 is a Turbo Charged Bugatti Veyron Uploaded with ImageShack.us Your UI makes my eyes hurt. | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
On April 26 2010 11:31 jimminy_kriket wrote: Im sure google could help pretty easily with a topic like this. On April 26 2010 11:12 PH wrote: ...but I can't seem to find them for Windows. All the ones I've found have been for OSX. Read before you post. On April 26 2010 11:37 FragKrag wrote: ^ there are plugins that let you use iPods or whatever with other media players. I'm pretty attached to iTunes. Call me a sucker, but I really like the sleek and relatively clean interface... -_- On April 26 2010 11:40 Wangsta wrote: another option is to get foobar but only use it to convert files. download the LAME encoder and just convert all your flac files to mp3 V0. you wont be able to tell the difference 99% of the time, and that other 1% of the time you'd need a very high end system to tell the (small) difference I'll try this out. Thanks for the suggestion. That last bit you said is exactly why I don't like FLAC, lol. | ||
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kefkalives
Australia1272 Posts
On April 26 2010 11:17 nineninja9 wrote: I personally use foobar2000 for my music needs. It's fairly lightweight, and there's plenty of components you can download for even more obscure filetypes. http://www.foobar2000.org/ That being said, if you're set on using Itunes, you might have to do some file conversion. DITTO. First thing i thought of when i saw the thread. Been using foobar for about 2 years now, i can never go back to another media player. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
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Spazer
Canada8031 Posts
On April 26 2010 12:16 kefkalives wrote: DITTO. First thing i thought of when i saw the thread. Been using foobar for about 2 years now, i can never go back to another media player. God, I don't know what I'd do without masstagger in foobar. That plugin is amazing. | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
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emucxg
Finland4559 Posts
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
On April 26 2010 19:32 PH wrote: Describe this masstagger. The name alone is enough for me to reconsider foobar. nah man youre better off sticking with iTunes iTunes is WAY better than foobar. Especially at NOT being able to handle small music libraries smoothly and NOT being able to handle FLAC | ||
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Spazer
Canada8031 Posts
On April 26 2010 19:32 PH wrote: Describe this masstagger. The name alone is enough for me to reconsider foobar. It allows you to edit ID3 tags on groups of songs. For instance, say you have a folder of songs: 02 Queen - Another One Bites the Dust.mp3 With masstagger, you can set up a script to input values for the ID3 tags like this: Guess values from filename: %tracknumber% %artist% - %title% This will recognize that the first part is the track number, everything up to the dash is the artist, and everything past the dash is the track title. | ||
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Wineandbread
United States2065 Posts
If it were just me, I'd suggest foobar, but I suppose iPod compatibility and such is probably important to you so I'll not answer with that. (but...a nudge in the "right" direction wouldn't hurt  )Anyway, I think this will answer your question: http://flac.sourceforge.net/itunes.html Xiph seems to have limited functionality. | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
On April 26 2010 23:37 intrudor wrote: nah man youre better off sticking with iTunes iTunes is WAY better than foobar. Especially at NOT being able to handle small music libraries smoothly and NOT being able to handle FLAC Wow. You make good joke. Please gtfo. On April 27 2010 05:04 Spazer wrote: It allows you to edit ID3 tags on groups of songs. For instance, say you have a folder of songs: 02 Queen - Another One Bites the Dust.mp3 With masstagger, you can set up a script to input values for the ID3 tags like this: Guess values from filename: %tracknumber% %artist% - %title% This will recognize that the first part is the track number, everything up to the dash is the artist, and everything past the dash is the track title. Ah. iTunes actually has that kind of functionality already, but it's good to know that foobar doesn't lack it. I'm going to be downloading it to try it out, so we'll see how it goes. On April 27 2010 06:13 Wineandbread wrote: ALAC seems like a pain to convert to just to use iTunes. :/ If it were just me, I'd suggest foobar, but I suppose iPod compatibility and such is probably important to you so I'll not answer with that. (but...a nudge in the "right" direction wouldn't hurt )Anyway, I think this will answer your question: http://flac.sourceforge.net/itunes.html Xiph seems to have limited functionality. That was an amazingly enlightening link, thanks for posting it, lol. @Frag: Are there plug-ins of some kind for foobar that allow it to sync with ipods? @Roffles: I'm actually going to try compressing the FLACs down to MP3s. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
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. | ||
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maga33
United States247 Posts
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/2997/88075975.png Its easily skinnable too so you can make it sc or what ever you want :D | ||
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
foobar is still better tho  | ||
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Wineandbread
United States2065 Posts
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) | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
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 ^^. | ||
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
that must be painful | ||
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Amnesia
United States3818 Posts
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. You must have quite the ears. Anything beyond 192/V2 I can't even tell the difference. | ||
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intrudor
Canada446 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21242 Posts
On April 28 2010 03:31 Amnesia wrote: 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. | ||
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PH
United States6173 Posts
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margie
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http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/how-to-import-flac-to-itunes.html | ||
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Candadar
2049 Posts
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? | ||
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happygirlbaby
United States1 Post
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 | ||
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MassHysteria
United States3678 Posts
Then I realized this is 2 years old lol.. | ||
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