Hydrogenaudio Forums > FLAC to Apple Lossless

eebl

Mar 14 2006, 12:32

Hey Guys,

So here's the deal. Me and a friend have ripped (collectively) about 100GB of music to FLAC using CDex and getting the tags from CDDB. What we want to do is to convert those files to Apple Lossless. I've been writing a simple VB program that does this over the past few days, and I've almost got it working. (IE, it will decode a file, export the tags to a text file and then write the tags back into VB String variables). Its really really basic, and uses the iTunes COM interface to write the tags into the ALAC files.

Its a prettier version of iTunesEncode designed specifically for FLAC files.

Basically it works. Its fairly pretty, and it'll be available under the GNU GPL. My question is, is there any point in me making updates once i'm done? Would anyone else use it?

EDIT: woah, one hell of a first post, eh?

kornchild2002

Mar 14 2006, 13:24

I would use it as I have friends who have multiple FLAC files while all my lossless files are in the ALAC format. This would enable me to convert those FLAC files for free without using something like dbpoweramp.

The only suggestion I would make is to open it up to more formats. I would maybe add Windows Audio Lossless, WAV, AIFF, and a couple other lossless formats once you are done (this is the greedy user talking in me).

But, other than adding a few formats (which may or may not be necesary since iTunes supports WAV and AIFF) it looks really good.

Thanks for the work and keep us/me posted.

PS

Someone may come across a bug or stability issue with your program. That would be the only real time that you would need to update.

underground_sound

Mar 15 2006, 03:26

QUOTE (eebl @ Mar 14 2006, 03:32 AM)

Hey Guys,

So here's the deal. Me and a friend have ripped (collectively) about 100GB of music to FLAC using CDex and getting the tags from CDDB. What we want to do is to convert those files to Apple Lossless. I've been writing a simple VB program that does this over the past few days, and I've almost got it working. (IE, it will decode a file, export the tags to a text file and then write the tags back into VB String variables). Its really really basic, and uses the iTunes COM interface to write the tags into the ALAC files.

Its a prettier version of iTunesEncode designed specifically for FLAC files.

Basically it works. Its fairly pretty, and it'll be available under the GNU GPL. My question is, is there any point in me making updates once i'm done? Would anyone else use it?

EDIT: woah, one hell of a first post, eh?

I'd love to give it a try, currently I use iTunesEncode and foobar2000 to convert flac to Apple Lossless, but a standalone app would be great as I'm not very skilled with foobar, and configuring it can sometimes be very tedious. Anything that would make converting FLAC to ALAC easier would be very appricated. I'm looking forward to seeing your end results!