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Title: How do i play a FLAC on MAC?
Post by: cavernut on May 28, 2010, 04:33:08 PM

Please help...

Michael

Title: Re: How do i play a FLAC on MAC?
Post by: achalsey on May 28, 2010, 04:38:59 PM

Easy way or hard way?

Google has all the info in the world.  Type in your subject line and you'll get an answer.  It took all of 5 seconds to look up so I'll pass on the info.

Easy(ish) way, here's a step by step how to install a program to get itunes to play flac files

http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/06/12/how-to-play-flac-files-in-itunes/

A slightly more time consuming way but easy enough, you can just convert to wav. (I use xACT) copy to itunes and add all the info to the files as you want.

Title: Re: How do i play a FLAC on MAC?
Post by: page on May 28, 2010, 05:26:49 PM

Songbird

f. itunes

Title: Re: How do i play a FLAC on MAC?
Post by: Dkrogh on May 28, 2010, 06:10:49 PM

You can also use VLC player

Title: Re: How do i play a FLAC on MAC?
Post by: bgalizio on May 29, 2010, 09:02:40 AM

Play:
http://sbooth.org/Play/

Title: Re: How do i play a FLAC on MAC?
Post by: greenone on May 29, 2010, 01:29:12 PM

Cog: http://www.cogx.org

VLC, Songbird and iTunes are nice but very large. Overkill if you're just looking for simple playback rather than building a library. Cog is super small and lightweight.

Title: Re: How do i play a FLAC on MAC?
Post by: Elana on June 04, 2010, 12:38:20 AM

Install windows as a virtual machine or in bootcamp :-p

Title: Re: How do i play a FLAC on MAC?
Post by: stevetoney on June 04, 2010, 10:28:07 AM

Do you do your FLAC on MAC?

In a house, or with a mouse?

I do not like MAC here or there.

I do not like MAC anywhere

I do not like to FLAC on MAC.

I do not like MAC Caver I am.

Title: Re: How do i play a FLAC on MAC?
Post by: keytohwy on June 04, 2010, 03:43:07 PM

I'll second Songbird.

If you like iTunes (and I do, not sure why others hate on it), you've got other options, including high bit rate AACs, Apple's proprietary ALAC, WAV, etc.

Also, check the Mac OS X Team thread...instructions on how to load FLAC for playback in QuickLook.

keytohwy