In fact, XLD’s preferences let you add converted files to a new playlist of your choosing, so you can easily incorporate playlist building into your conversion process. For example, you could have two versions of Bruce Springsteen’s classic album named Born to Run and Born to Run-High-Res.Īfter this, you’ll need to create playlists to segregate the different types of files and sync your content to your iOS devices. Either create a “High-Res” genre, assuming you have fewer high-resolution files than standard files, or name the albums in such a way to distinguish them. In order to distinguish these files from the high-res files, you have two options. XLD converts files from many formats to many other formats, so you can use it for just about all your conversions. You can convert your high-resolution files to the format of your choice-Apple Lossless, AAC, or MP3-and sync those files to your iOS device. X Lossless Decoder (XLD), which is the most versatile tool for converting audio files that I’ve come across. What a lovely little rant, but nobody really asked for it.XLD’s preferences let you choose conversion formats and add them to iTunes playlists.įirst, you need to convert the files to a format that is compatible with iPods and iOS devices. they certainly won't be adding FLAC all of a sudden onto formats compatible with iDevices). ALAC will work with all Apple iDevices, and as it's been open licensed (although it was already reverse engineered beforehand anyway), it's likely to work on non-Apple devices going into the future.įLAC on the other hand will never be able to be used natively on Apple iDevices, as Apple have firmly nailed their cross to the mast on wanting to use ALAC with some kind of adaptive streaming which FLAC won't work with (ie. Most knowledgeable users are using *lossless* formats now, as they can be re-formatted back to WAV (and/or into other lossy formats) ad infinitum, and storage is cheap (and small devices will get a lot more storage in future & use cloud services for storage/syncing too).ĪLAC and FLAC are the two leading ones.īoth ALAC and FLAC are open licensed now. MP3? Sure you want to be using that (lossy format) in this day and age for both archiving and sales it is NOT good longterm. Can anyone recommend a free or cheap WAV to mp3 converter?

Problem with xld mp3 conversion