Juan I. Cahis

Dear friends:

I have some beautiful music recorded in FLAC files. I understand that FLAC
take one half of space, approximately, of their equivalent WAV files, and
they are exactly of the same sound quality. Also, I understand that iOS
devices cannot play FLAC files, at least iTunes, am I wrong?

Of course, I can expand them to WAV files, and then play the converted
files in my iPad, but that will take twice the required space.

Is there any iOS compatible compressed format, with exactly the same sound
quality than FLAC or WAV? I don't want to use MP3, even at 320 Kbps. If
there exist one, which parameters should be used for this purpose?

Thank a lot again.

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Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Dear friends:
>
> I have some beautiful music recorded in FLAC files. I understand that FLAC
> take one half of space, approximately, of their equivalent WAV files, and
> they are exactly of the same sound quality. Also, I understand that iOS
> devices cannot play FLAC files, at least iTunes, am I wrong?

Google is your friend.

Hint: You are right.

> Of course, I can expand them to WAV files, and then play the converted
> files in my iPad, but that will take twice the required space.
>
> Is there any iOS compatible compressed format, with exactly the same sound
> quality than FLAC or WAV? I don't want to use MP3, even at 320 Kbps. If
> there exist one, which parameters should be used for this purpose?
>
> Thank a lot again.

Strange that you haven't considered Apple Lossless or other formats like
AAC.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lossless>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding>

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In article
<1139366933346011446.645679jiclbchSINBASURA-attglobal.net@news-central.g
iganews.com>, Juan I. Cahis <jiclbchSINBASURA@attglobal.net> wrote:

> Dear friends:
>
> I have some beautiful music recorded in FLAC files. I understand that FLAC
> take one half of space, approximately, of their equivalent WAV files, and
> they are exactly of the same sound quality. Also, I understand that iOS
> devices cannot play FLAC files, at least iTunes, am I wrong?

there's a flac plugin for itunes and ios devices can play it using a
third party app.

> Of course, I can expand them to WAV files, and then play the converted
> files in my iPad, but that will take twice the required space.
>
> Is there any iOS compatible compressed format, with exactly the same sound
> quality than FLAC or WAV? I don't want to use MP3, even at 320 Kbps. If
> there exist one, which parameters should be used for this purpose?

you can transcode them to apple's lossless, but that's a waste for an
ios device. you aren't going to hear a difference on headphones or with
the built-in speakers. itunes can encode to aac on the fly when you
sync, without modifying the originals.