aiff files, and then putting everything through iEatBrainz, the automatic tagging software which bases its algorithm on a checksum of the audiofile, and not the length of all tracks like iTunes does. aiff files into iTunes, tagging them by hand a little bit, converting the result to Apple Lossless, getting rid of the intermediate. ![]() AIFF, effectively doubling the number of song files on my hard drive and getting rid of all the tags entirely then importing those. There have been rumours support for it will be present when Leopard comes along, but I think we’ll more likely see native support for WMA files than FLAC.Before today, the method I used to use was: I would take the album in FLAC, put it through xACT which would convert it to. ![]() Now, while I support the great idea of open lossless that is FLAC, Apple has really been a bitch about implementing it into iTunes. Some time ago I had acquired a collection of certain Beatles recordings in FLAC format (65 pounds of Beatles vinyls on my shelf keep me guilt-free), and since the only lossless format iPods would play was Apple Lossless, converting to that format was my only option. ![]() Neither Fluke nor the instructions will work for Windows users though, sorry. UPDATE: I have created Fluke which makes playing FLACs through iTunes on a Mac much easier.
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