Hello,

Maybe this will help you.

BR

Franci

Soren, wait for the Beosound 5 encore, that will support iTunes related file formats (so they say...) and can access your lib directly.

If you are into lossless, you prob. need more than that 500GB space on your media storage, so the "old" BS5 is outdated anyway, as its not upgradeable by default.

Sidenote: Ffoobar2000 is Windows only, don't ever try to convince a Mac user to use Windows stuff ... we won't!

Best

Ultra

sorenfelden wrote:

Thanks for the link which, however, seems to support my above comment that FLAC does NOT work in iTunes.

So the question still remains whether there is a LOSSLESS format which is compatible with BOTH iTunes and Beomaster5. I'm afraid not......

I am afraid not.

Well, AIFF should be... Just twice the size.

sorenfelden wrote:

Does FLAC work in iTunes...??? It does not pop op as an option in the ripping format menu.....!

see

http://code.google.com/p/flukeformac/

for playing FLAC files in iTunes

So the lossless format answer is.................. FLAC

alenvprekrsku wrote:

redfresnel wrote:

Which player would you recommend instead of iTunes? If there's a better one i'd like to know, or do you just use something else because iTunes is made by Apple?

 

foobar2000

I am sorry but the program is only for Windows which is made by Microsoft which if you ask me is worse than Apple. They may both be big and bad companies and so on but atleast Apple makes working operating systems. :)

Foobar is freeware. And there is nothing wrong with it.

(I use both OS and my machines are working fine)

I tried to use max on my mac - but without success. I did not work out to get a foulder with music (Flac; 1:1) and meta data that could be dropped to the Beoconnect icon in the dock? I have no idea what went wrong. Do you know where to find a helpful user guide?

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Verzollnix

you can play Flac files with iTunes, but iTunes cannot fill/read the tag of a Flac file (it can display its own info though). With Max I don't know if it fills the TAG of a Flac file, I never used it. If these informations are not stored in the TAG the BS5 doesn't have any information to display.

In my case I use a W7 machine for ripping and adjusting the Tags. There are a lot of tools to rip and tag all kind of formats on a PC, on a Mac its much harder. 

Carolpa wrote:

Foobar is freeware. And there is nothing wrong with it.

(I use both OS and my machines are working fine)

I didn't say there's something wrong with the program. I said the OS it was made to be used on is not good. If you really respect a program you create and you don't make versions for both Windows and OSX, that's currently just simply stupid. And i don't want to use Windows on Mac because of a single program, even though it's possible.

And btw, iTunes is freeware too :)