The universal tag editor and more. Mp3tag is a powerful and easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of audio files. It supports batch tag-editing of ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags for multiple files at once covering a variety of audio formats. Map your GROUPING tag to CONTENTGROUP (using the ID Tag Update DSP) when you convert from.flac to Apple Lossless. Add the tag to the ALAC versions after conversion, rather than to the.flac files and dealing with the mapping issue. To make this even more streamlined, you can just 'bulk select' the tracks for which you want to add the.
My new music library is all nicely ripped Apple Lossless files in.m4a containers. These contain metadata, but it’s not id3v2 and the universe of mp3 tools mostly don’t work. Ffmpeg’s ffprobe sort of works but doesn’t show all tags. What does work for displaying m4a metadta is mp4v2, installable via Homebrew. Like ID3 tags in MP3 files, AAC files offer some space for meta information like title, artist, track number, year, comments, genre, album. These tags are important for searching and sorting, they can be used to organize a music collection. Besides, most players nowadays read tags and expect files to have them.
3 Free Ways to Convert FLAC to ALAC Effortlessly
Previously, I have shown you how to download Tidal music or Deezer music to FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec). If you want to play your downloaded FLAC songs to your Music Library on your iOS device or iTunes, you can convert FLAC to ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec).
In this article, I will show you 3 ways to convert FLAC tracks to Apple Lossless easily. Of course, you can also use these methods to convert FLAC to other formats like MP3, AAC, AIFF, OGG, etc.
But if you want the lossless music quality, ALAC is recommended, which is a type of lossless audio codec created by Apple Inc. After converting to ALAC, you can add the music to iTunes, iPhone, iPad, and iPod Classic.
Method1: Convert FLAC to Apple Lossless with Foobar2000
Foobar2000 is a completely free program that can help you convert as many songs from FLAC to ALAC losslessly. I think it is better than most of the paid applications that can do the same thing because it has a concise interface and the converted music file also contains the cover art and other metadata.
Foobar2000 also allows you to import them to iTunes or iPhone Music Library after the conversion. It supports all mainstream audio formats including FLAC to ALAC, MP3, AAC, AIFF, Musepack, OGG, Opus, etc.
Foobar2000 is available in Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can check the video below to see how it works.
Step 1. Free download and install Foobar2000 from its official website. Then install the free encoder pack.
Step 2. Click File to import all the FLAC files that you want to convert to ALAC to Foobar2000. You can also Add FLAC files that you want to convert to Foobar2000 by dragging and dropping.
Step 3. Press Ctrl+ A to select them all and right click. From the menu, select Convert > Quick Convert > Apple Lossless.
Step 4. Click Convert and then select a location to save to converted files.
It only takes a few seconds to convert a few tracks. When the conversion is complete, you will find the converted files are pretty much the same size as the original FLAC file and all the tags and cover photos remain, which is really cool.
Method 2: Convert FLAC to ALAC FFmpeg
If you have followed my guide about downloading a private Facebook video, you probably have installed the FFmpeg, and then you can use it to convert FLAC to ALAC from Powershell. Once you have download and extract FFmpeg file to your computer, you can follow the steps below to convert FLAC files.
Step 1. Navigate to the folder where you save all the FLAC files.
Step 2. In that folder, press Shift + right click and then select Open PowerShell window here.
Step 3. Run the following command. Be sure to change the location path of FFmpeg accordingly as the screenshot.
ls -recurse -include *.flac | %{C:the location path of FFmpegffmpeg.exe -i $_.FullName -acodec alac ($_.DirectoryName+””+$_.BaseName+’.m4a’)}
When it is done, you can go to the folder and find a M4A file along with each FLAC file.
Method 3: Convert FLAC to Apple Lossless Online
If you just need to convert only one file or two, there is no need to download and install a dedicated software because you can free convert FLAC to ALAC online.
Just go to this web page and drag and drop the FLAC files to start the conversion. You can also configure the advanced options including audio bitrate, audio channel, reverse audio, etc.
Since it is an online tool, it takes much longer to convert a file than the other 2 methods because you need to upload and download the files. The output ALAC files do not contain metadata.
Conclusion
That’s all the three methods that you can use to convert FLAC to ALAC for free. For me, I like to use Foorbar2000 because it is fast. When converting some really high-quality tracks, you may receive errors.
Now, it is your turn. Which method do you like the most? Let us know in the comments. If only want to play FLAC in iTunes, you don’t need to convert them. You can just install this program Flukeformac on MacOS.
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Main features:
Batch Tag Editing Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MP4, WMA, APEv2 Tags and Vorbis Comments to multiple files at once.
Support for Cover Art Download and add album covers to your files and make your library even more shiny.
Import from Discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz Save typing and import tags from online databases like Discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz, and more.
Replace characters or words Replace strings in tags and filenames (with support for Regular Expressions).
Create Playlists automatically Create and manage playlists automatically while editing.
Rename files from tags Rename files based on the tag information and import tags from filenames.
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Export to HTML, RTF, CSV Generate nice reports and lists of your collection based on user-defined templates.
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Full Unicode Support User-interface and tagging are fully Unicode compliant.
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Besides these main features Mp3tag offers a variety of other functions and features ranging ranging from batch export of embedded album covers, over support for iTunes-specific tags like media type or TV Show settings, to combining multiple actions into groups that can be applied with a single mouse click.