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).

Free Download Free Download. Step 1 Load FLAC files. Simply drag and drop FLAC file to the main interface of the program to load file instantly. If you want to batch convert FLAC files to AAC, just load the folder where FLAC files are. Step 2 Set AAC as output format. Click 'Profile' drop-down button of the software to select 'AAC Advanced. Steps on how to convert FLAC to AAC: 1. Add the media files to convert. The first step is to select media files to convert. Run Audio Transcoder and use Folder Explorer to browse files you want to convert. Then select a file in the File List, drag it to the Drop Zone and drop it there. Optionally, Audio Converter allows you to edit tags of any.

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.

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:

Key features of the best FLAC-to-AAC Converter:

• Lightning-fast conversion (multi-core optimized encoders to speed up conversions on modern PCs.)
• Batch mode for multiple files conversion task, Audio Transcoder can convert thousands of FLAC files at once.
• Supports most widely used popular input and output formats.
• Supports drag & drop.
• Full Unicode support for tags and file names.
• Integrated CD ripper with CDDB/freedb title database support.
• Supports conversion without any temporary files it brings you high converting speed and saves hard disk resource.
• Easy to learn and use, still offers expert options when you need them.
• Creates output folders according to source files directory tree automatically.
• It can add ID3 tag such as title, artist, album, year, genre, and comment to target file when converting files to MP3/WMA/OGG/WAV/APE/MP4/M4A/M4B.
• Fairly intuitive to use with its Windows Explorer-Style user interface.

Do you have some .flac files that you want to convert to AAC so you can listen to them on your phone? Fortunately for you, we’ve put together a simple guide for converting FLAC into AAC. Audio Transcoder offers you an easy and fast way to convert any audio files to AAC with high quality. It is an advanced Music Converter and CD Ripper with support of various popular media formats and encoders.

Free download and follow the instructions below

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Steps on how to convert FLAC to AAC:

1. Add the media files to convert.

The first step is to select media files to convert. Run Audio Transcoder and use Folder Explorer to browse files you want to convert. Then select a file in the File List, drag it to the Drop Zone and drop it there. Optionally, Audio Converter allows you to edit tags of any selected file in Drop Zone.

Once files are selected, the next step is to select the output settings in Converter.

2. Select the output settings.

The second step is to select an output settings. To begin, select a folder for output and choose an action to be executed if an output file already exists (create a new file, overwrite or skip existing file).

Also you can set Media Converter to delete source file after conversion and preserve original folder structure, when doing batch conversion. Finally, you should select the output format and sound quality. In AAC dialog box, choose format settings for the final tracks. Depending on quality you need, select bitrate, sample rate and the number of channels. You will probably lose some audio content if you choose mono option. You can choose what sample rate you want to use. 44.1 kHz (or 44100 Hz) is a sample rate used by music CDs. Less than that and you'll start to hear the loss in quality. You can choose a bit rate you want to use (128kbps is often used for AACs on the internet).

Once output settings are customized, you can go to the final step - transcoding.

3. Start to convert any audio files to .aac

Click Convert button to start to transcode music into any audio format you desired. A conversion dialog will appear to show the progress of data conversion. If you want to stop process, please click Stop button. After conversion, you can click an Output Folder button to get transcoded files and transfer to your iPod, iPad, iPhone, media player or hard driver.

During the turning music into aac, you can change priority of the process or set an automatic event to be executed when the conversion is over. After the conversion has finished, you can find your converted files in the output folder you specified.

People often search for 'flac aac converter online' or 'how to convert flac to aac online' without realizing that uncompressed audio files are large in size and by the time you upload, convert and download files you are better off downloading Audio Transcoder on your PC and perform convention locally = 0 second waiting for uploading and downloading. With our Audio Converter you can easily rip your CDs to AAC, FLAC or WMA files for use with your hardware player or transcode files that do not play with other software. You can even transcode whole music libraries retaining the folder and the filename structure. The integrated CD ripper supports CDDB/freedb online CD database. It will automatically query song information and write it to ID3v2 or other title information tags. Have any questions regarding Audio Converter? See below Frequently Asked Questions.

With FLAC AAC Converter you can convert any media tracks for all iOS devices and play audio on your iPod, iPhone or iPad.

Useful How-to Guides:

Software System Requirements:

• Minimum System Requirements
  • Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • 1.0 GHz or faster processor
  • 512 MB RAM
  • 10 MB free hard drive space
• Recommended System Requirements
  • Microsoft Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Pentium 4 or faster multi-core processor
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 10 MB free hard drive space

Frequently Asked Questions

We strongly recommend that you first find answers to your questions here before try to contact us.

Q: What is FLAC ?

A: FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar in MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar in how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file. Notable features of FLAC: Lossless: The encoding of audio (PCM) data incurs no loss of information, and the decoded audio is bit-for-bit identical in what went into the encoder. Each frame contains a 16-bit CRC of the frame data for detecting transmission errors. The integrity of the audio data is further insured by storing an MD5 signature of the original unencoded audio data in the file header, which can be compared against later during decoding or testing. Fast: FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed. Decoding requires only integer arithmetic, and is much less compute-intensive than for most perceptual codecs. Real-time decode performance is easily achievable on even modest hardware. Hardware support: FLAC is supported by dozens of consumer electronic devices, from portable players, in home stereo equipment, in car stereo. Flexible metadata: FLAC's metadata system supports tags, cover art, seek tables, and cue sheets.
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Q: What is AAC ?

A: Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is an audio coding standard for lossy digital audio compression. Designed to be the successor of the MP3 format, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at similar bit rates. AAC has been standardized by ISO and IEC, as part of the MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 specifications.
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