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Title: Mac: A FLAC and iTunes script. Any help getting this going?
Post by: cleantone on February 20, 2007, 03:01:31 PM: iTunes to FLAC (http://www.lexial.ca/alex/applescripts/iTunes_to_flac.html)

This looks like something I REALLY want to do but I am not well versed enough to get this rolling. Has anyone done this? Any chance of some help installing and making this happen?

PLEASE!!!
Title: Re: Mac: A FLAC and iTunes script. Any help getting this going?
Post by: keytohwy on February 21, 2007, 05:41:47 PM: Can you be a little more specific as to what you are trying to accomplish?

keytohwy
Title: Re: Mac: A FLAC and iTunes script. Any help getting this going?
Post by: keytohwy on February 21, 2007, 05:55:16 PM: Or maybe just this:

A package of AppleScripts which simplify the following tasks: (a) encoding in FLAC of AIFF or WAVE tracks selected in iTunes and converting ID3 tags to FLAC comments, (b) decoding FLAC files to AIFF or WAVE and converting FLAC comments to iTunes ID3 tags, (c) encoding audio CD images of the bin/cue type to FLAC, and, (d) decoding FLAC-encoded audio CD images.
Requires flac, metaflac, cue2toc and toc2cue (or cueconvert).

http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/iTunes-to-FLAC-Download-18298.html

keytohwy

Quote from: cleantone on February 20, 2007, 03:01:31 PM
iTunes to FLAC (http://www.lexial.ca/alex/applescripts/iTunes_to_flac.html)

This looks like something I REALLY want to do but I am not well versed enough to get this rolling. Has anyone done this? Any chance of some help installing and making this happen?

PLEASE!!!
Title: Re: Mac: A FLAC and iTunes script. Any help getting this going?
Post by: cleantone on February 22, 2007, 10:06:08 PM: Quote
Can you be a little more specific as to what you are trying to accomplish?

Thanks for the reply! I am trying to use these tools to get iTunes to play and decode FLAC files. I'm not sure how to properly install these files. It is not built into an installer of it's own.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Mac: A FLAC and iTunes script. Any help getting this going?
Post by: keytohwy on February 23, 2007, 01:04:53 AM: iTunes relies on QuickTime for it's playback and encoding. And while there are many plugins for QT, none offer FLAC codecs for QT7 (neither Mac nor PC). There is talk of support for that in the upcoming Leopard Mac OS release, but time will tell.

keytohwy

Quote from: cleantone on February 22, 2007, 10:06:08 PM
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Can you be a little more specific as to what you are trying to accomplish?

Thanks for the reply! I am trying to use these tools to get iTunes to play and decode FLAC files. I'm not sure how to properly install these files. It is not built into an installer of it's own.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Mac: A FLAC and iTunes script. Any help getting this going?
Post by: scb on February 23, 2007, 08:14:04 AM: http://sbooth.org/Play/

it plays flac files
Title: Re: Mac: A FLAC and iTunes script. Any help getting this going?
Post by: cleantone on February 23, 2007, 11:56:48 AM: I would ultimately like to be able to convert FLAC in iTunes with the metadata intact. This package seemingly does this. That is why I want to try it. Also...

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iTunes relies on QuickTime for it's playback and encoding. And while there are many plugins for QT, none offer FLAC codecs for QT7 (neither Mac nor PC). There is talk of support for that in the upcoming Leopard Mac OS release, but time will tell.

Check out :http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/ (http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/)

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http://sbooth.org/Play/

I don't have X.4. I have X.3.9. I use Cog right now by the same maker but it only plays 16bit FLAC. I want to convert as well.
Title: Re: Mac: A FLAC and iTunes script. Any help getting this going?
Post by: scb on February 23, 2007, 12:54:10 PM: Quote from: cleantone on February 23, 2007, 11:56:48 AM

Check out :http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/ (http://www.xiph.org/quicktime/)

doesn't play flac files
Title: Re: Mac: A FLAC and iTunes script. Any help getting this going?
Post by: cleantone on February 23, 2007, 12:57:33 PM: I haven't looked into it too much. I think I couldn't get it to work right or something but it says:

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08.05.2006 - XiphQT 0.1.5 released

What's new in this release? Intel Mac compatibility (finally!), FLAC decoder, fresh (and still warm!) Theora decoder and a number of bug fixes and other smaller changes - see the release notes for details.