However, I also have a large collection of dsf files, which I play on vox.

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Osx Flac Player Mac Player Which

I recently upgraded my vintage stereo setup with a new vintage preamp in the form of an Audio Research SP9 and also got a magnificent turntable, a Michell Gyrodec but still have to find a place for it in the neighbor of my very busy TVStereo closet (Sat decoder, PS3, ATV3, ModemRouter, TV screen, Preamp, CD-Player, power amp, Wii.) but I am enjoying listening to digital music; while I thought, reading here and there, that MP3 with a high bitrate is practically barely undistinguishable (does this word exist) I have to say that after listening to FLAC it sounds totally different and so much better so my iTunes library comes almost worthless after the FLAC experience and am thinking to convert some of my CDs into FLAC to arrange some compilations but I wonder if there is some Mac player which allows to arrange music into compilations other than VOX which i downloaded and using right now, any other player besides VOX Thank you.

Phonix or clementine play FLAC if you want to check them out.

Oh and since you want to convert to FLAC from CD XLD (X Lossless Decoder) will do that for you as well.

Osx Flac Player Mac Compatible File

Though you can go with Apple lossless option in it and have a mac compatible file that will play in any audio program on a Mac.

All the uncompressed formats CD, FLAC and Apple lossless sound identical because they are bit for bit the same.

Once your files are in Apple Lossless you can use any Mac software or IOS device or iPod to play the files.

Apples Core Audio handles the lossless format so all Mac audio software can access that format Because all these formats are lossless you can convert between them any number of times with no loss in sound quality.

This is the easy option because you just set iTunes to import into Lossless format and start ripping.

But the thing I like most about this setup is I can get iTunes to automatically convert lossless to 256 m4a when pushing to my iPods, iPad or iPhone.

So I can keep lossless in my main library for use on the MBP (which I use with an external DAC), but still have great quality mobile use too, and I only have to keep a single lossless copy of each track.

I am not happy to have to dedicate a laptop as a music server, maybe in future will either get a Mini or adapt my old one for the purpose.

Thank you all for participating to this thread with your opinions and suggestions Giovanni.

Thank you.

Im ripping all my CDs in FLAC format and uploading them to my VOX library.

Its so simple. Now, with a little help from an Apple compatible DAC, I listen to music in all of its glory.

Dont let anyone tell you that theres no difference; there is a big sound quality difference.

Vox instantly syncs what I upload from my PC to my iPhone; the app even has an excellent parametric equalizer that helps me adjust my music to the listening environment.

I finished this after 2 years of development and experiments.

DSD can play via PCM (if your DAC dont support DoP) or native DSD play via DoP on USB external DAC.

Now you can play you audio files as in Finder or you can play all files from folder.

This as in Finder.

This player tested on OPPO H1 and H2, Hegel, Yamaha A2000, KEF R700 and head phones H850.