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PJPro:

Lee H:

I always seem to follow Scene on this kind of thread! 

I bought a Sonos almost 2 years ago and ripped everything to Flac. I recently batch converted using dbPoweramp to create another AAC library which sits on an external HDD. Now, my Sonos looks at the Flac files and my iTunes looks at the AAC.

I know that iTunes can transcode, but not to the quality I want, plus as it's on an older PC it takes some time - hence the batch convert. Right now, I use an iPhone but who knows what I'll use in the future, which is why I went for AAC over ALAC for my mobile files.  

Seems your problem is actually iTunes. Why not use something else, like foobar2000?

I also have mediamonkey which can sync to my iPhone and transcode. My PC is quite old and not very powerful so it really is my machine rather than the software. Even dbPoweramp took 4 days to convert 11,000 Flac to ALAC!  

scene:

...Does foobar2000 allow you to synch with an iPod or iPad?...

Aye. Take a look at this.

PJPro:

scene:

...Does foobar2000 allow you to synch with an iPod or iPad?...

Aye. Take a look at this.

Thanks for that.

Actually, still being thick here. The link says that iPad supported wih version 3.2 of the software only, I assume that's not iOS 3.2 is it, as my iPad is on 4.21?

Cant u just download the flac plugin for ITunes/Quicktime? A quick google seems to find one.

 

Though I dont think this would let u stream flac between devices as Itunes treats all network music as mpeg stream.  But for just playing back on various apples there are flac plugins (except the ipod).

If u still want to stream flacs something like iSedora might be useful.