I've come to the conclusion that there appears to be "no" software solution for re-encoding FLAC or Wavpack files to ALAC. Here's what's happening:

XLD completes the conversion process and the files play fine within Itunes, but when loaded on my Ipod (5G Video Ipod 30GB), only one song is played and then my Ipod crashes. I tried this multiple times with various files and the same result ensued.

Has anyone else experienced this?

I'm afraid to even try the same thing in Max because last time I encoded one of my discs to ALAC using Max, it would not play the songs in the correct order. The songs for that album would automatically shuffle, even with that option disabled on my Ipod.

Are there any other options for encoding or re-encoding lossless files for Mac?

Edit: Nevermind, didn't realize you were on a MAC.

How long ago did you try Max? It is quite actively developed with multiple new 'unstable' builds a week. IIRC there were some changes to the ALAC code as well, not too long ago.


I'd give it another shot if I were you. Try the latest 'unstable' (build 1132), also known as 0.7 RC4 and quite stable actually.

Same thing happens here. ALACs encoded with XLD crashes after playing 1 song. Max works fine, but it doesn't work with UTF-8 cuesheets. If I reencode XLD-encoded songs with Max or iTunes then they won't crash anymore, but this is troublesome and time-wasting...