FLAC to ALAC

Posted by: Dogginte on 21 September 2017

Hi all. FLAC is always lossless though is it not? My understanding is as follows: FLAC is lossless. It's a compression which is reversed when the FLAC file is played. Cupertino has been open from its lossless audio codec (ALAC), ALAC can reduce the amount of memory required for audio files by up to 50% without losing the originally recorded fidelity, which is not as lossy as MP3 and AAC, but when I converted my FLAC to ALAC, I failed for known reason, I downloaded a program from a giveaway site, but it called me to set some parameters, such as framerate, I don't know about these parameters, anyone can help me? please Is this all correct?

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Posted on: 21 September 2017 by Huge

It may help if you tell us why you want to convert FLAC to ALAC.

Posted on: 21 September 2017 by ChrisSU

You should be able to convert between any of the lossless formats easily, and there are plenty of apps that will do this for you, many of them free.

Posted on: 21 September 2017 by manicm

I have found differences in sound quality when converting one compressed lossless format to another. I don't trust the software. I would only trust the 'official' FLAC decoder to unpack Flac to Wav.

Posted on: 21 September 2017 by ChrisSU

manicm posted:
I have found differences in sound quality when converting one compressed lossless format to another. I don't trust the software. I would only trust the 'official' FLAC decoder to unpack Flac to Wav.

What's that?!

Posted on: 21 September 2017 by sjbabbey

ChrisSU posted:
manicm posted:
I have found differences in sound quality when converting one compressed lossless format to another. I don't trust the software. I would only trust the 'official' FLAC decoder to unpack Flac to Wav.
What's that?!

Presumably FLAC Frontend available via the sourceforge site.

Posted on: 22 September 2017 by Huge

The official FLAC file processing software is flac.exe and is a text mode (command line) application designed to be launched from a GUI front end or to be run in a text mode command window. (There are numerous front ends to this, some free, some commercial.)

The official decoder is the decoder source code from which a DLL or other reusable code element can be compiled.