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FLAC on iPod

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EnderW

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Is there anyway to get my iPod to play FLAC files?
Or anyway to burn them onto a CD that will play in a deck that supports MP3 cd's?
 
As far as I know, the iPod cannot play FLAC, ogg, or any other non-apple format besides MP3. I don't know of any hacks either.
 
I've heard that there is one way to play FLAC on the iPod, but it involved installing some custom-created OS on the thing, and basically hosed it for any other purposes.

If you have FLAC files, the easiest way to get them as lossless files on your iPod is to first transcode them to WMA Lossless and then use iTunes to import and transcode those to apple lossless. This keeps all the tags you had on the files, but of course would take a lot of time and HDD space if you planned to do it with many albums at once.
 
BO(V)BZ said:
If you have FLAC files, the easiest way to get them as lossless files on your iPod is to first transcode them to WMA Lossless and then use iTunes to import and transcode those to apple lossless. This keeps all the tags you had on the files, but of course would take a lot of time and HDD space if you planned to do it with many albums at once.
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Will I degrade the quality of the files with all the converting?


the Jones said:
ipodlinux

www.ipodlinux.org
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I've got a 4th gen 20GB.
The fourth generation click wheel, mini, U2, Photo, and Shuffle iPods are NOT currently supported.
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EnderW said:
Will I degrade the quality of the files with all the converting?
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Probably not. We're talking about lossless codecs remember? Unless the audio data gets mucked up during transcoding (which I don't think is likely to happen), the audio data will not be changed in any way.
 
Yeah, the converting method is really the only way to go, even though it is a pain to do. All that converting will not hurt the file. If you want to do so, you could prove this by taking a MD5sum of the .wav before the conversion, do all the converting, and then output another .wav file from the apple lossless. Theoretically, they should be the same, unless like another user said, there is a bug. However, even then I doubt anyone but the most discerning listener with an incredible system could tell.
With that said, I found converting to apple lossless to be too much of a pain, and I just turn my FLAC's into 320 kbps MP3 files. Yes, its still lossy, but I dont care that much,and really, I cant tell that its worth it to convert to lossless for the smidgeon of sound quality. Untill I can do it easily, I will leave the lossless on the computer.
 
Whitedude said:
I just turn my FLAC's into 320 kbps MP3 files.
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That's probably what I'll do. Even after I get my new speakers in the car, I doubt I'll be able to tell a difference.
 
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