Apple adds FLAC support in iOS11

Okay, if you don't use Apple, this is going to be one whole 'I don't give a fuck' but it's a big deal for Apple users.

 

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/6/15747518/apple-flac-lossless-audio-compressed-alac-ios-11

Apple adds microSD support in iOS14

huh... ok

been converting dem FLACs to ALAC for quite a while now

*shrug*

128kbps mp3 4 life

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at least audiophiles looking to play their FLAC collections on Apple’s devices may have some workaround when iOS 11 launches this fall

 

LOL

 

being an audiophile while listening to tunes on yuor iphone/pad/pod?

finally I can listen to my vaporwave flacs on my Apple™ iPhone™ with wireless Beats™ Solo 3™ headphones

  On 6/6/2017 at 9:16 PM, goDel said:

 

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at least audiophiles looking to play their FLAC collections on Apple’s devices may have some workaround when iOS 11 launches this fall

 

LOL

 

being an audiophile while listening to tunes on yuor iphone/pad/pod?

 

especially iphones (but other flagship phones as well) have extremely good dacs and headphone amps that can rival professional gear.

 

  On 6/6/2017 at 9:56 PM, eugene said:

 

  On 6/6/2017 at 9:16 PM, goDel said:

 

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at least audiophiles looking to play their FLAC collections on Apple’s devices may have some workaround when iOS 11 launches this fall

 

LOL

 

being an audiophile while listening to tunes on yuor iphone/pad/pod?

 

especially iphones (but other flagship phones as well) have extremely good dacs and headphone amps that can rival professional gear.

my -20hz to 200,000,000,000khz hearing range and 50k post count on headfi.org prove you wrong. You need stax and a 10k electrostat tube amp to hear music correctly on digital vinyl

Edited June 6, 2017 by clarktrent

iOS 11 won't run on my iphone 5 though :( 

 

Jesus, still no flac support in itunes.

Edited June 6, 2017 by user

flac support? nice! *puts 2 albums on phone*

 

ah shit outta space

 

wtf is with the no itunes flac support still? eh i've been this close to switching to tomahawk or something for a month anyway...

Good luck with the Pono now, Neil.

  On 6/6/2017 at 10:37 PM, lamourfou said:

Good luck with the Pono now, Neil.

lol

Nah, it's not really "a big deal for Apple users" since iTunes doesn't play it yet and conversion to ALAC takes around 3 sec in Max 0.81...

lol flac

Who the hell listens to lossless music on their phones? as if you can tell any difference with crappy earphones on the subway lolwut

  On 6/6/2017 at 11:46 PM, hello spiral said:

lol flac

 

This more than anything. FLAC is an amazing format for what it was made to do, which is archiving. Just like "bitperfect audio" being meant for low latency recording, audiophiles have lolled it into pseudo science. This obviously may not have been the case a long time ago before well encoded lossy files used to be the norm and DirectSound on Windows used to be absolute shit but LAME is fantastic these days and you'd have to try to fuck it up. AAC exists as well. It's nice for apple to support more formats but for playback it's not a huge deal these days. 

 

EDIT: But lol for supporting it on phones before iTunes

Edited June 7, 2017 by clarktrent

I don't get why this matters?  There are apps in the appstore that play flac out of the box, and you can sync files through your web browser to your phone (Lossless Plus for example).  My whole library is in flac, and it's easy to just bypass the whole itunes ecosystem and play what files you want.

  On 6/6/2017 at 11:53 PM, Kidrodi said:

Who the hell listens to lossless music on their phones?

I do ... but ... BUT (there's quite a few buts!) ... only 'cos:

 

- My phone natively plays them

- FLACs are pretty much the same price as mp3s nowadays so I just buy that format now

- HD and microSD storage is so expansive and cheap that a 200mb mp3 album vs 400mb flac album doesn't really make much of a scrap of a difference

- I can't be arsed to transcode the files whenever I bung them on my phone's SD card

 

Definitely can't hear the difference ... hell back when 192kbps mp3s were the norm I couldn't (and still can't) tell a difference between that lossy and a lossless format!

i'm a 320 man and always will be

  On 6/7/2017 at 9:01 AM, BCM said:

i'm a 320 man and always will be

 

Aw yeah

  On 6/7/2017 at 9:01 AM, BCM said:

i'm a 320 man and always will be

 

+1

v0 4 lyfe.... (well apart from flacs)

Ogg Vorbis Until I Die.

  On 6/7/2017 at 9:32 AM, mcbpete said:

v0 4 lyfe.... (well apart from flacs)

 

God damn variable hippie...

  On 6/7/2017 at 2:48 PM, Squee said:

God damn variable hippie...

  hey man, we shouldn't be constricted by those rigid government imposed bit rates yeah? ... we should let the encoding roam free with the spirit of the music and let it decide what frame size it feels like yeah?