Iphone interesting discovery.....Playing Flac on iPhone

[Dyaems]

Is the iphone even capable of running FLAC at 24/96 and up? If not, then theres really nothing better than ALAC since its the best sound format for Apple. I dont even think theres a discernible difference between a 16bit ALAC and a 16bit FLAC.

True that.

People might say it will degrade quality because it is being converted from cd > flac > alac but i dont think this is the case here. Since we are converting from lossless to lossless format. It should degrade quality if we are converting 24bit to 16bit lossless. And it will do no justice if we convert a 16bit to 24bit. Only makes the file bigger.

[shootertwist]

Just tried the golden ear app yesterday as suggested here to play FLAC files. It was decent enough but sometimes the music jumps even if i have more memory available. Opted to just encode the FLAC files to ALAC so i can play the files natively on the iPhone. Got a question though, is it possible to somehow have my ALAC files on a separate library in iTunes? my problem is that I now have some duplicate albums with one group encoded at 320kbps and the other in ALAC. I prefer to have both so its handy when i'm going on long trips i can bring more songs but on a daily basis i want to go with the lossless files... thanks in advance for any advice

[KaliKot]

Just tried the golden ear app yesterday as suggested here to play FLAC files. It was decent enough but sometimes the music jumps even if i have more memory available. Opted to just encode the FLAC files to ALAC so i can play the files natively on the iPhone. Got a question though, is it possible to somehow have my ALAC files on a separate library in iTunes? my problem is that I now have some duplicate albums with one group encoded at 320kbps and the other in ALAC. I prefer to have both so its handy when i'm going on long trips i can bring more songs but on a daily basis i want to go with the lossless files... thanks in advance for any advice

Your best bet is to take advantage if itunes' playlist features for that. Make a separate playlist with flac files on your local library and the drag it to your ipod or iphone when you want to transfer them

[shootertwist]

^ thanks for the suggestion, its what i did last night, made myself a smart playlist,  thanks again

[docsialu]

Ive downloaded flacplayer for iphone, seems its easier to load the files compared to the process usually done for itunes, and of course it plays flac 

[docsialu]

Ive noticed that compared to itunes on the iphone. The flac player lags ang staggers when im doing other things with the iphone, like say using facebook


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[Divineness]

Been using flac player on my iPod Touch 4th Gen for 2 days and so far it runs smoothly with my flac collection. Can also use other apps w/o staggering and lagging  music play. Maybe because I still have more than 50GB worth of free space, that it buffers with ease.

[docsialu]

Your probably right sir, for i have only 1.2 gb of memory left


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