View Full Version : iPhone, Flac? Yes!
The Vinyl Adventure
18-10-2010, 11:38
With limitations and £5.99
http://www.apptism.com/apps/flac-player
good shout!
why did I buy only an 8gb model? :)
Beechwoods
18-10-2010, 12:26
Woo Hoo! Thanks for the tip Hamish. No more needless transcoding!
Bugger...I've got it loaded on my ipod touch, but my itunes screen doesn't look like the example they give...and I don't know how to load FLAC files onto the Flacplayer. :(
Beechwoods
18-10-2010, 14:38
As far as I could tell you click on your device in iTunes, go to the Apps menu and scroll down to where it's got the list of applications that have file sharing enabled. Click on Flac Player, and you get a box to the right which has an 'Add' button at the bottom of it, which brings up a window where you can navigate to the folder / files you want to load up.
Somethng like that anyway, I did it without looking at the instructions because I figured it would work like AirSharing. Anyway, it loaded my files up happily enough and it works great! Top banana!
Can't seem to get beyond this...
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j280/Stevewaller/Picture1-2.png
Beechwoods
18-10-2010, 16:06
Scroll down!
The Vinyl Adventure
18-10-2010, 16:19
How does it sound nick...
I have been to busy to play with it yet...
I have been waiting for fla support for so long now, I check the app store most weeks and have followed (lightly) some people progress, I think there is another company who has something similar in the pipe line too... Although I can't find info now...(?)
(very pleased he bought a 32gb model)
EEJIT !!!
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j280/Stevewaller/Picture2.png
Beechwoods
18-10-2010, 16:35
:D
EEJIT !!!
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j280/Stevewaller/Picture2.png
As an IT guy, we have a code for that - a PEBCAC error - Problem Exists Between Computer And Chair! ;)
(The impolite version is UTFS Error - I'll leave you to work that one out, and no offence intended Steve, just having a bit of fun! :))
No worries Alex..
What a dickhead though !! :doh::doh::lol::lol:
Anyway...
This is really interesting.
I (ok, it took a while to get there) managed to load up Raising Sand by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss ... each track as a Flac file. This worried me initially as I thought I was just going to get individual tracks showing up, but somehow the software has grouped it into an album, and displays it as such.
Now I've run though each track, comparing the Apple Lossless with Flac.
Its night and day, with the Flac files being SO much better.
It shouldn't be, but it is.
The Apple lossless files are muddy in comparison, and the Flac files just make you want to listen longer and longer to the music playing, better defintion, instrument seperation etc etc
Top result.
But...what a bugger I only have 8 gigs.
The Vinyl Adventure
18-10-2010, 18:31
Flactastic result!
I'm gonna be getting some files on in a bit... I might even get a portable amp to go with my kick ass little ear buds ... I've been putting up with mp3 for long enough ... I accidentally deleted my aac's and couldn't be bothered to re compress my flac to acc again ... Now I don't have to ... Woo!
G'zackly.
I have been collecting loads of Flac files for ages now, because I knew I'd be going down the Linn DS route early next year...so now I'm thinking about a larger capacity ipod (I'm guessing the software is ipod touch, not classic).
On top of which, Linn have just announced the new Akurate range... which means a flood of (old)Akurate DS players on the market today at around £2,500+
So that kind of decides me vs the Majik
As far as I could tell you click on your device in iTunes, go to the Apps menu and scroll down to where it's got the list of applications that have file sharing enabled. Click on Flac Player, and you get a box to the right which has an 'Add' button at the bottom of it, which brings up a window where you can navigate to the folder / files you want to load up.
Somethng like that anyway, I did it without looking at the instructions because I figured it would work like AirSharing. Anyway, it loaded my files up happily enough and it works great! Top banana!
Hi Beechwoods,
Thanks for sharing this process. I had the FLAC Player loaded onto my iPhone and love the sound.
However, I experienced very frequent Audio Drop-Out while playing the FLAC files with the FLAC player on my iPhone.
Do you encounter audio drop-outs?
How can this be fixed? Anyone knows?
Regards,
Brian
Beechwoods
24-10-2010, 13:46
I have had certain files glitch on me. Have you got an iPhone 4 or 3G/s? It's the kind of thing that tends to get fixed in a future update though...
Mine is a iPhone 3G with iOS 4.0.1
Beechwoods
05-11-2010, 18:44
Your 3G might be struggling to keep up with the processing speed required to decode FLAC on the fly. I only had a problem once and suspect it might have been some other process that was causing the problem.
If anyone out there is using FLAC Player a lot they may find Phone Disk useful: http://www.macroplant.com/phonedisk/ Phone Disk basically gives you direct access to pretty much everything on your phone, via Explorer or the Mac Finder, without jailbreaking it. Most usefully, it lets to see inside App directories, and directly load folders of files into FLAC Player.
Phone Disk is free until December, so it's worth checking out now :)
Oops! FLAC Player ignored files loaded via this direct route. A shame as it would have been extremely useful if it didn't :)
Hmm, perhaps we might be hearing a bit less of how wonderful itunes, ALAC and AIFF are from now on ;)
I’ve had an Apple laptop, not a very modern one I’ll grant you, and tried itunes and ALAC; wasn’t at all impressed as I’ve mentioned before elsewhere.
It seems even those who tend to go for the Apple stuff end up using Ammara or similar as a player and rip with EAC or dbpoweramp. Cant help but wonder why they bought a Mac in the first place.
Anyway, good to hear you guys are getting better quality sound with Flac :)
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