Make iTunes Friendly To WMA, OGG, And FLAC Files
Audiophiles love FLAC files for their lossless fidelity, while Ogg and WMA files aren’t widely supported. With free plug-ins, all three of those formats can be played and managed in iTunes.
MacWorld links to and explains a number of free iTunes plug-ins, both official (Windows Media for QuickTime) and third-party, that make Windows Media Audio, freely-licensed Ogg and FLAC files compatible with iTunes libraries on Windows or Mac. In the case of FLAC files, you’ll actually have to convert the file types from .flac to .mov, but the article explains the easy way to do that with Mac’s Automator. On Windows systems, we’d suggest the previously mentioned Bulk Rename Utility. Found another way to make Apple’s generally walled-off media manager play nice with non-native formats? Tell us how in the comments.
Play .wma, Ogg, and FLAC Files in ITunes [PC World/MacWorld]
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Convert FLAC to MOV? Then might as well just convert FLAC to ALAC. *facepalm*
I agree, total facepalm.
I was hoping for something that would allow me to use iTunes to put music on my iPod touch from a huge collection of FLAC that I play on a linux machine. *sigh* Looks like manual conversion still every time I want something new on my iPod.
Apparently you can use MediaMonkey to do this on-the-fly (ie convert from FLAC to MP3/MP4/AAC)