Anyone encoding to Apple Lossless for iPod?

[Agrajag]

I'm interested in converting all my WMA 9.1 Lossless files to Apple Lossless (ALAC) files when they're copied over to the iPod (60GB iPod Photo) but I hate iTunes.

I'm wondering if anyone else already has this setup working and how it's working out for you. I keep thinking about installing iTunes to find out for myself but have everything working pretty well so I've held off for now.

I wish Apple would either just support WMA Lossless or release the info for ALAC so that we could get a real codec.

[LtData]

Re: Anyone encoding to Apple Lossless for iPod?

Right now, iTunes 5 doesn't work with the iTunes codec, but 4.x does. This is about the only problem I've heard regarding the iTunes codec regarding ALAC.

[Spoon]

Re: Anyone encoding to Apple Lossless for iPod?

>Right now, iTunes 5 doesn't work with the iTunes codec

Are you sure on that? The iTunes codec uses a sort of com object to iTunes and it should work with newer versions.

[LtData]

Re: Anyone encoding to Apple Lossless for iPod?

Well, mabye I'm mistaken. Though there is the one person that had troubles with ALAC and e-mailed you one of the files. The other threads look like it was another issue.

[Agrajag]

Re: Anyone encoding to Apple Lossless for iPod?

My main concern is if I can install iTunes without it screwing up my existing setup.

[LtData]

Re: Anyone encoding to Apple Lossless for iPod?

Well, you would have to go into the iTunes Options and allow using the iPod as a storage device, and then disabling everything in iTunes that deals with the iPod, but it shouldn't bother anything else.

[Spoon]

Re: Anyone encoding to Apple Lossless for iPod?

About iTunes - it installs lots of services (3 with latest - iPod Service, a CD writer service and a Harmony service), searching on the internet should show guids to disable them. OR install it, convert and uninstall...

@LTData: the problem was iTunes 5 Encoded Lossless audio files seem to break compatiblity with dbpoweramps ALAC decoder.

[LtData]

Re: Anyone encoding to Apple Lossless for iPod?

Aha, that was what iTunes 5 did then. Rats.