Ok, well if I may throw mmy 2 cents in here. Itunes should allow the conversion of Apple Lossless (or AAC Lossless if you prefer) to Wav but the next step will require another application to convert that wave audio to FLAC, nothing that an Apple Script cannot automate of course.
On 19/07/2007, at 5:32 AM, Kevin Lloyd wrote: Hi Gordon. You won't lose any quality converting from WAV to apple lossless. Assuming that you then have all ID3 tags intact, if you can find a program to convert from apple lossless to FLAC or lossless WMA, then again there won't be any loss in quality. Regards. Kevin E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. McFarlane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:08 PM Subject: Re: Putting LP's on the Computer > Hi > I have just a query based on your reply. > I ripped all my large record collection to wav before I realised > that the > ID > tags would not be preserved. I did so in ITunes and so because the > Tags > are > in the library all the details remain. If I export to any of the > Itunes > formats supported than the tags go with it however if I try to use > an;y > other program only the name of the song and artist are copied from > the wav > file. > My question is: I can use the Apple lossless codec in itunes to > keep the > wav > lossless, or can I? Would this conversion result in a loss of quality, > however small, converting from wav to Apple? Alternatively is it > possible > to > add formats to Itunes so that the wav files might be exported from > Itunes > with their tags, ideally like a flec or lossless windows media format? > Thanks for any response. > Gordon McFarlane > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kevin Lloyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> > Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 7:55 PM > Subject: Re: Putting LP's on the Computer > > >> The only thing I'd add to this note is that you have more choice >> these >> days >> than ripping to WAV format to get true CD quality results. >> Lossless WMA >> and >> FLAC are two formats that come to mind. Both of these formats >> will give >> you >> identical results to the original CD and WAV file but will yield >> slightly >> smaller files. Both will also provide ID3 tag support which WAV >> files >> will >> not. >> >> Regards. >> >> Kevin >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jerry Richer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "PC audio discussion list. " <pc-audio@pc-audio.org> >> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 7:21 PM >> Subject: Re: Putting LP's on the Computer >> >> >>> Kris: >>> >>> Of course you won't be interested in MP3 or any other >>> compression >>> schemes. 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