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Re: FLAC and ALAC

Posted by jcarr (M) on March 29, 2007 at 19:29:17

In Reply to: FLAC and ALAC posted by creativepart on March 29, 2007 at 13:29:26:

EAC allows you to convert ripped WAVs into lossless formats like FLAC, APE, Wavpack an so on via an external encoder program (which you specify). Unfortunately, no program that I know of other than iTunes supports ALAC encoding, and you cannot choose iTunes ALAC encoding as a post-ripping option from within EAC.

However, dBpowerAMP Music Converter (plus the right plug-ins) can convert from FLAC, APE, Wavpack, et al into each other, and incidentally ALAC (through iTunes encoding, which is automatically called up via the corresponding plug-in). You also have the choice of retaining any id tag information internal to the music file.

Therefore, you can make top-quality rips in EAC and automatically encode into APE or FLAC in the same step, use an id tag editor to enter tag information, and then use dBpowerAMP Music Converter as a post-processor to get ALAC files for the iTunes library and iPod.

A bit extra work, but it gives you quality as well as versatility.

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