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Old 2011-10-18, 02:40 PM
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Re: pc to mac... how to make the transition?

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Originally Posted by Radarlv View Post
Also, I would be really interested in any comments about the Apple's Lossless file format (ALAC: Apple Lossless Audio Codec). It would be really great to play all my music in iTunes.

Thanks again for the info.
I did a little test just to check it out
one song 4:20 in length
Flac: 28.8MB
Apple: 29.7MB
They seem to be about the same in file size, and SHOULD sound the same. If you really don't want to re-encode the files you might be able to use a program called Fluke that'll force itunes to import the files. You just can't do anything with them besides playback (it's not gapless last time I checked).

It's a shame iTunes doesn't support Flac natively.
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