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]
Myles Kalus
Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 8:14 AMConvert FLAC to MOV? Then might as well just convert FLAC to ALAC. *facepalm*
DaCheetah
Thursday, August 6, 2009 at 12:13 PMI 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.
David
Friday, August 7, 2009 at 12:59 PMApparently you can use MediaMonkey to do this on-the-fly (ie convert from FLAC to MP3/MP4/AAC)
Me Myself
Monday, November 30, 2009 at 6:17 AMActually they meant to change the extensions so that iTunes buy it and xiph quictime components decode flac content
Emily Henry
Monday, December 20, 2010 at 8:34 PMin fact, there is no need to convert .ogg file to itunes format, if you only play .ogg file in itunes
just free download and install Xiph QuickTime Components
then your itunes will accept .ogg files
if you also put .ogg to ipod,iphone,ipad, then you need to convert .ogg to itunes/ipod/iphone/ipad compatible format
the following tutorial will guide you how to put .ogg file to itunes in solution 1 and guide you how to put .ogg file to itunes/ipod/iphone/ipad in solution2
http://www.bigasoft.com/articles/put-ogg-to-itunes-to-play-ogg-in-itunes.html?xlifehacker