Questions tagged [flac]
The Free Lossless Audio Codec is an audio file format that provides lossless storage of any audio.
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Using "afconvert" to convert .flac to Apple Lossless - files are too large
I have a .flac file that I need to convert to Apple Lossless.
I've tried 2 settings:
afconvert -f m4af -d alac track.flac -o track.m4a
afconvert -f AIFF -d BEI32 track.flac -o track.aiff
The problem ...
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Good free audio converter for OS X Lion?
Am trying to find a simple audio converter to convert various m4a, wma, mp3, and flac files to standard mp3 128KB VBR (for an ancient mp3 player with limited storage).
I'm probably only going to use ...
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flac terminal app no longer works - giving me libogg.0.dylib errors
I've been a happy user of flac on the OS X Terminal. I mostly use it to either encode, or decode wav -> flac or flac -> wav.
What I'm meeting nowadays is this:
flac -d *.flac
dyld: Library not ...
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How to Find/Filter for 24-bit audio files in Finder or iTunes or another software (if needed)? (audio bit depth / sample size)
I have a large iTunes library of lossless music. Some of it is 24-bit, which does not work on iPhones nor with Google Play (most audio is 16-bit, and this metric only applies to lossless formats). I'd ...
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it no handler for given file type `flac'
I hope someone can help me out with this issue.
I have installed the latest version of SoX (14.4.2) on my Mac and I keep getting the following error message:
no handler for given file type `flac'
I ...
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Ogg Vorbis/FLAC Support for OS X 10.10
I used to playback Ogg Vorbis and FLAC files (in iTunes) with this QuickTime plugin: https://www.xiph.org/quicktime/
But this no longer seems to work in OS X 10.10 (probably also in 10.9, I don't ...
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How can I add support for .flac files in SoX?
I want SoX to record audio in .flac files. When I do:
rec -t flac ~/Desktop/myrec.flac
…it gives the following error:
rec FAIL formats: no handler for given file type `flac'
I have installed SoX ...
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Most efficient way to 'export' iTunes protected aac to FLAC (for personal use)?
What's the most efficient way to export tunes bought with iTunes that are protected aac to FLAC for playing on other music hardware (still for personal use)?
2 methods I can think of so far are:
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Perian gave Finder broken 'click to preview' UI feature. Now, how do I get rid of it?
I understand that Perian is (a) not being developed by its creators anymore and (b) it doesn't work on 10.9/Mavericks even though someone appears to releasing updates to it on GitHub (gathering from ...
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How to find low bitrate audio (non alac/flac)
I'm relatively new to the audiophile world and I still have some lossy audio files in my music folder. I do have all this music on cd so I would like to find the lossy albums so that I can rerip these,...
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Rip CD to FLAC on Mavericks
I have a large collection of Audio CDs I would like to convert to audio files. My requirements are:
FLAC and MP3 support: I would like to keep a lossless version of the CDs in original quality.
CDDB /...
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FLAC audio support for OS X 10.9
Someone please remind me of what software I need to install to get as full support for FLAC audio as possible.
I've figured out how to do this, and then forgotten again, perhaps a dozen times over ...
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How do I convert a 24-bit/96 kHz FLAC to anything else?
I have some FLAC files I want to convert to AAC, but I can't because my go-to program, Max, throws an exception (The call to ExtAudioFileSetProperty failed.) when it tries to convert 24-bit/96 kHz ...