People who want to listen to the best quality music with iTunes or Apple Music concerns much about the lossless conversion between audios. One of the most common questions is how to convert FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) to iTunes in M4A (ALAC or Apple Lossless).
To WAV Converter for MAC OS X processes most audio and video input formats, including: MP4, FLAC, WAV, M3U, AVI, WMV, AIFF, AAC, FLV, MPG, MPE, 3GP, MKV, MOD. To encode audio and video to.WAV format just set destination folder and drag and drop your files or folders to application?s icon or interface. How to Convert FLAC to WAV? Click the “Choose Files” button to select your FLAC files. Click the “Convert to WAV” button to start the conversion. When the status change to “Done” click the “Download WAV” button; Best Quality. We use both open source and custom software to make sure our conversions are of the highest quality. A guide for you to convert FLAC files to WAV with ease, using Audacity on Mac: Step 1. To import the FLAC file in Audacity, choose 'File' 'Import' 'Audio'. Then, export the file by clicking 'Export' or 'Export Multiple'. Here you choose the location and click 'Options' to set the export format in MP3 Files.
In this post, I’d like to share my experience of how I convert FLAC to iTunes on Windows and Apple Music on Mac. It’s 100% free on Mac. And, you want to convert FLAC to MP4, WAV, AIFF, no problem. You will have the all-in-one solution too.
More About the Audio Files iTunes and Apple Music Support
What Audio formats does iTunes support? When you go for Preference settings in iTunes on Windows, and then General-Import Settings, you will see the supported encoders by iTunes are: AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3, and WAV. And, this is true for the Apple Music app for later macOS like Catalina and Big Sur. You can also check the supported formats in the Music app Preference-File-Import Settings.
Among those audio files, WAV and AIFF are uncompressed, and both come with a large bit rate. For example, AIFF is always 1411 kbps. In this way, WAV and AIFF can maintain the original quality of your CD. However, they can be huge. One more thing that needs your attention is that tags and metadata are not well supported by WAV and AIFF. You may lose that information when you transfer them from one device to another.
For AAC and MP3, they are lossy and your music will be compressed. So the file size is reasonably smaller but you can hear the loss of your music in quality.
Apple Lossless, the Apple Lossless Audio Codec, as the name suggests, is lossless and can retain the full quality of your CD or FLAC music. Importantly, it can be 50% smaller than WAV and AIFF.
If you are looking for a free way to convert FLAC to iTunes on older Macs or Apple Music app on the latest Macs, there’s a 100% free way for you!
X Lossless Decoder, which is short for XLD, is a free and open-source audio decoder that is designed for Mac users to decode, convert, and play different kinds of lossless audio. It works on almost all Macs, even the PPC ones decades ago. Surely, it natively supports M1 Macs and the latest macOS Big Sur.
How to Convert FLAC to iTunes or Apple Music in ALAC
Step 1. Download, Install and launch XLD
Visit X Lossless Decoder’s homepage and scroll down to download:
Drag the XLD.app to the Applications folder for installation.
Launch it from Applications and right-click it to Open!
Step 2. Setup XLD
If you want the Apple Lossless M4A file in your iTunes and Apple Music, you need to choose Apple Lossless in the Output format. Setup the output folder as well as the other options as you prefer.
Step 3. Convert FLAC to ALAS
It’s very simple. Just right-click your FLAC and select XLD.app to open. It will automatically start converting and then save it M4A file to your desired folder.
To batch convert FLAC, you need to go for Files-Open to load your FLAC in batch.
You can watch the YouTube video to learn how to one-click convert FLAC to ALAC (Apple Lossless) for iTunes or Apple Music on Mac.
[PC & MAC] How to Convert FLAC to iTunes Apple Music
X Lossless Decoder is only for Mac. If you want to convert FLAC to iTunes with the lossless quality on PC, we can go for Wondershare UniConverter. And, it’s also for Mac too!
With Wondershare UniConverter, you can convert FLAC to all iTunes and Apple Music supported WAV, AIFF, AAC, MP3, and M4A. Besides, you can set your preferred audio encoder, channel, sample rate, and bitrate for the conversion. Just download UniConverter from the below buttons and let’s get started. It’s very easy, within a few mouse clicks.
Step 1. Load FLAC
Please go for Audio Converter and drag the FLAC files that you want to convert to iTunes and Apple Music, to the program. You can drag your whole folder too!
Step 2. Select Output Format
If you want the lossless format for FLAC conversion to iTunes and Apple Music, go select AIFF or WAV. AAC and MP3 are also available for those who want good quality and better file size. UniConverter also supports M4A. It’s just a little pity it’s NOT lossless.
Step 3. Convert FLAC
Click the Convert or the Start All button to start converting FLAC to AIFF, WAV, AAC, M4A, or MP3. They are all iTunes and Apple Music compatible.
Tips-Transfer FLAC to iTunes or Apple Music Automatically
After converting FLAC, UniConverter can transfer the converted file to iTunes or Apple Music on PC and Mac automatically. It’s one of the main reasons I like UniConverter better because we don’t have to go for the File menu and choose “Add File to Library” to transfer. You can enable this option here in Preference:
FLAC To MP3 Mac is a Mac OS software product that converts FLAC to MP3, WMA, M4A, AAC, OGG and WAV audio formats. Besides FLAC format, this FLAC To MP3 Converter can also convert other video and audio file formats to MP3 format. FLAC To MP3 Mac also transfers the tag information and meta data from FLAC into MP3, so users can keep all tags in the converted songs. The application has an easy-to-use UI and users can drag their FLAC files onto the program and drop them then the conversion would start immediately and convert all media files in bulk.
OS: Mac OS X 10.9 or later
File Size: 13.7 MB
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FLAC to MP3 Converter for Mac OS
FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) compresses the original audio data (CD and WAV etc.) by the lossless data compression algorithm, so this format is becoming increasingly popular in the world because the FLAC audio files will not lose the original audio quality while playing, and will have a much smaller file size compared to CDA and WAV formats. There are many FLAC music sources now, so people can easily find and download FLAC songs from the internet to enjoy high quality music, or rip the CDA audio tracks from audio CDs to FLAC files directly.
However, if you need to make the audio file size even smaller, or want to play your music on more devices, MP3 format would be a better choice. As the most popular audio format, MP3 is compatible with more and more software products and hardware devices.
You can use FLAC to MP3 Mac to convert your FLAC audio files to MP3 format on Mac OS. After dragging and dropping your FLAC songs onto the application and choosing the output path, you will see the program start the conversion immediately. Within a few seconds the songs will be entirely converted to MP3 format and located in the folder you select.
Besides MP3, FLAC to MP3 Mac allows users to convert FLAC songs to additional audio formats such as AAC, M4A, OGG, WMA and WAV. You can also use the FLAC to MP3 Mac to extract audio from video files like MP4, MOV and most popular video formats.
How to Convert FLAC to MP3
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1. Select the Output Audio Format
The first option box on the application UI (user interface) is the output format. The
MP3 format has been chosen by default. 2. Set Audio Options
You can set the output MP3 audio bit rate, channel and rate on the UI. You will need to set these options before selecting your FLAC files. 
3. Output Path
On the right hand side, you can see there is an option that enables you to set the output path. It has been set to save the converted files to 'Original Folder', which means the converted MP3 files will be in the same folder as the FLAC files are in. You can change the setting to 'Customize the Output Path' and then you can choose another folder path, for example Desktop or Document folder, to save the converted files.
4. Add FLAC Files
Now you've completed all the settings. Drag your FLAC files onto the application, or click on the large application image to add files, and the conversion will start immediately.
NOTE: If you have set the output path as 'Customize the Output Path', the application will ask you for the new folder path before converting in this step.
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5. Wait for A Few Seconds
The application starts the conversion the instant you add the FLAC files. You will see the progress bar which tells you the progress of the current conversion and how many FLACs are in the queue preparing to be converted. Once the conversion is complete, you will be able to find the converted files in the location folder you have set or the default original folder.
How to Convert Other Formats like WAV or AAC to MP3 on Mac
The procedures for converting other formats to MP3 are same as converting the FLAC to MP3 format. Just adding the files of other formats to the application in the same way you would add a FLAC file will work perfectly. If you add a video file, the program will extract the audio for you.