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I'd like to avoid having to convert it all the time (e.g. MacOS' music player doesn't seem to support that? But gonna have to check it). And the sizes are just
by imrehg 3y ago
I'd like to avoid having to convert it all the time (e.g. MacOS' music player doesn't seem to support that? But gonna have to check it). And the sizes are just enormous.
But yeah, as storage space & bandwidth are less and less an issue, if FLAC is fully supported across the board, the scale should be tipped. My worry comes from we not quite being there yet.
- jMyles 3y ago...MacOS' music player doesn't support FLAC? Sometimes I'm just baffled by how broken the Apple ecosystem can seem.
- frizzlebox 3y agoIt supports ALAC. There’s a handy app called XLD (X Lossless Decoder) that will convert from FLAC to ALAC (and probably back) in a couple clicks if you need it. Lossless means I don’t really need to care whether my music is in an equivalent format, but I will admit it’s a bit silly. https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html
- moogly 3y agoffmpeg -i audio.m4a -acodec flac
- inkywatcher 3y agoBroken on purpose in this case, I am sure, for the same reason Spotify doesn't deal with FLAC.
- doublepg23 3y agoI mean enormous compared to an MP3 I guess but I have 19,000 FLAC tracks that takes up less than 500GB, pretty cheap to store that in 2023.
- jwells89 3y agoMusic.app not supporting FLAC is kinda weird, because the rest of the OS has been able to handle it for a while now. Quicklook (spacebar preview), Quicktime Player, etc all handle it fine, but Music doesn’t despite using the same decoding and playback facilities.
- cageface 3y agoI'm working on a desktop music player for Mac that does support flac. It should be ready for release early next year. FLAC is great because it's future proof. You can transcode to other formats as needed but keep a lossless archive.
- 15457345234 3y ago> I'm working on a desktop music player for Mac that does support flac There's already a whole bunch of them
- cageface 3y agoYes but I think there is room for improvement.
- 15457345234 3y agoAudacious would be almost perfect if it supported ReplayGain for .m4a
- epcoa 3y agoThere are plenty of desktop music players on Mac that support flac, audacious, Cog, colibri, vox, Plexamp come to mind and there are others including commercial offerings. That is not the issue. People that wish to use the Apple official music ecosystem are SOL. On the second point, ALAC works just as well as FLAC in that regard.
- cageface 3y agoYeah there are options already. Swinsian and Doppler are also pretty good. But I think there's still room for improvement.
- epcoa 3y agoWhile I am personally not happy with any of the offerings on MacOS, alternatives don’t help those interested in wanting to use Apple Music with any lossless archive other than ALAC.
- epcoa 3y agoIf you must support Apple Music there is ALAC. I’m not sure of any major use case that would support FLAC but not ALAC, ie consumer AVRs support both, but would be interested to know of counterexamples.