In Reply to: ALAC and EAC posted by jbmcb on March 30, 2007 at 08:21:13:
I have done the EAC/FLAC to ALAC conversion (dBpowerAMP in combination with iTunes), and played the ALAC files on a 5G iPod. I haven't noticed any problems so far.When you use dBpowerAMP 11.5 with the r1 version of the iTunes codec (AFAICT), the encoding engine is iTunes (you can visually confirm this since running this process starts up iTunes and activates the ALAC encoding progress bar), while dBpowerAMP seems to be dealing more with the FLAC decoding and filename/tagging transfer chores. Since iTunes is the ALAC encoder whether you trigger the process from within iTunes or without from dBpowerAMP, it would be interesting to find out why using dBpowerAMP as an additional front end would cause special problems (and it hasn't caused problems in my case).
A Google search shows that you can download iTunesEncode (last update 2005-07-29) from http://rarewares.org/aac.html
Should be worth experimenting with, at least.
regards, jcarr
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