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Gbeer7
04-07-2011, 09:38
Hi All,

i'm a huge Beatles fan, and was tempted to purchase the Anthology remasters from Itunes. Not a fan of itunes really, but no other way of hearing these tracks that have been remastered. I'm using a Sneaky DS, so my question is do Itunes do Flac ? I've heard of Apple flac, is this the same ?

Also, does anyone think these will eventually come out on CD or Hi-rez ? Don't want to purchase them twice and would rather the CD's. I of course have the original anthology CD's.

Thank you all.
Yoga
04-07-2011, 09:50
Apple has ALAC, which is their own proprietary version of FLAC. It's in m4a format, and works with iTunes, iPods and whatnot.

There is an excellent application called Max for OS X which converts FLAC to ALAC very quickly, and even tags and moves to correct folders etc. It's free too, which is amazing.

IIRC, iTunes store is 256 kbps.
Gbeer7
04-07-2011, 10:00
I generally use Flac for ripped CD's. So is Apple Flac (Alac) lossless ?
Stratmangler
04-07-2011, 10:02
I generally use Flac for ripped CD's. So is Apple Flac (Alac) lossless ?

Yes.
Yoga
04-07-2011, 13:36
Apple Lossless Audio Codec :¬)
Gbeer7
04-07-2011, 14:10
Someone has just told me you can't buy apple lossless has to be MP3. Is this right ? Not worth buying the anthology remasters in MP3 is it ? I'm a lossless person if i can.
Yoga
04-07-2011, 14:24
Someone has just told me you can't buy apple lossless has to be MP3. Is this right ? Not worth buying the anthology remasters in MP3 is it ? I'm a lossless person if i can.

The (little) stuff I've bought from iTunes has been 256kbps AAC, you can't choose the format and they certainly don't offer lossless.

I would hold fire and do some more searching.
Gbeer7
04-07-2011, 14:26
Searching ?
Looks like its MP3 or nothing. No real point buying 256 for digital remasters. Bit of a shame. Wonder if it will come out on CD in the future ?
Yoga
04-07-2011, 14:57
Ah, it's an iTunes exclusive.

Digitally remastered, then limited to compressed data?

No thanks :¬)
Gbeer7
04-07-2011, 15:10
Think i'm with you yoga. Massive Beatles fan but this is a pointless.
Yoga
04-07-2011, 15:32
Indeed. I would hold out, knowing Apple, they will sell the normal version for 6 months then release the lossless version.

Apple are the kings of incremental updates/releases.

A.K.A. the kings of milking it's consumers :¬)
Bazil
04-07-2011, 17:21
Apple has ALAC, which is their own proprietary version of FLAC. It's in m4a format, and works with iTunes, iPods and whatnot.

There is an excellent application called Max for OS X which converts FLAC to ALAC very quickly, and even tags and moves to correct folders etc. It's free too, which is amazing.


Is there anything like that for Windows ?
Tim
04-07-2011, 17:29
I don't use it myself, but I believe dbpoweramp will convert FLAC to ALAC, so may be worth checking that?
keiths
04-07-2011, 17:37
dbPoweramp will cetain do that, but it isn't free.
Bazil
04-07-2011, 17:38
Thanks Tim I'll have a look :)

Oh just read Keith's reply:(
keiths
04-07-2011, 17:50
Not it's primary function, but cuetools - http://www.cuetools.net - will convert FLAC to ALAC and is free. Just tried it and it works fine.
Bazil
04-07-2011, 18:09
Nice one Keith thanks