FLAC to AIFF in iTunes

What's the procedure? Seems I did that in iTunes once before. Want to burn a playable DVD-R from 88.2K FLAC audio files. Most of the free FLAC conversion software I see listed says it is for OSX but then when I download it proves to be a useless .exe file. What's going on?

What I use is xACT. It will convert any FLAC to either AIFF or Wave.

Download xACT for Mac - Audio compression toolkit. MacUpdate Mac Software Downloads

There is also MacFlac. Never used it though.

I use Max, which is a brilliant ripper too, and copes with many other formats as well.

Max from sbooth.org

Use of Max to convert FLAC

I got Max and used it to convert the FLAC audio files. The order and titles of the 11 tracks were all screwed up. I put back in order into Toast and tried to burn the DVD. I got: "CD-ROM XA or Audio tracks cannot be written to DVD."
So now what? I also don't know if the AIFF conversion I chose is 96/24 or just 44.1/16 again.
I think now what I did before was just drag FLAC files into iTunes and then chose "Create AIFF version" to convert. Wouldn't that work? But then perhaps Toast wouldn't burn a 96/24 DVD-R...

henry33@aracnet said:

I got Max and used it to convert the FLAC audio files. The order and titles of the 11 tracks were all screwed up. I put back in order into Toast and tried to burn the DVD. I got: "CD-ROM XA or Audio tracks cannot be written to DVD."
So now what? I also don't know if the AIFF conversion I chose is 96/24 or just 44.1/16 again.
I think now what I did before was just drag FLAC files into iTunes and then chose "Create AIFF version" to convert. Wouldn't that work? But then perhaps Toast wouldn't burn a 96/24 DVD-R...

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You need to have tagging on in Max preferences, then it will automatically tag the files the same way as they were.
Toast won't burn to dvd as an audio disc, you can burn them as data though, and they should play.
Look into Max preferences for bit rates, but it will be the same as source normally, you don't want to re-encode up anyway, that's always bad.
Toast will happily burn 96/24 to CD.
You can't drag FLAC into iTunes, as it's not a supported format. If it were you wouldn't need to convert.
Give me a shout if you need more help with Max.

Thanks a million. I've been using FLACer to convert from flac to aiff. But of recent it's just not been working. And I've been looking for an alternative app that actually works. And the 2 options here look nice. Thanks for this information.

I'm not sure if anyone will pick this up as it's an old thread…
I use Max for FLAC to AIFF conversion. The sound is perfect but the file size almost doubles using the 16 bit option but using the 8-bit option creates a hiss on the track but keeps the file size similar.
Any tips?

Gggrrrrrrr

AIFF is like Wave on the PC. Not a Lossy format so it's very large. You could convert to Apple Lossless which is around the same size as FLAC or just use a Player in OSX to play the FLAC's as they are. AIFF and WAVE are full size with no compression at all.

I use a small player called COG for any FLAC files I have.