Comments on: Finding a .flac Tool, Ducks Optional

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:37:48 +0000

@pumpkin: m4a is m4a — The converter I found worked great, and there are a few others in the flac website- they all are front ends, it seems to the flac software at sourceforge.

By: pumpkin

pumpkin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:25:30 +0000

Does the utility need to be mac-based, or can you do the conversion on (ick)win and then transfer the m4a files over?

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:21:14 +0000

@jay: I’m glad you like feed2js but there’s not much I can do; the site it is hosted on is provided for free to me and I cannot/ do not know how enable SSL on it nor am I sure that would even fix your situation. Sorry, but IMHO, you ought to see if the site can either be mirrored off of SSL or run the code yourself.

By: jay

jay — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:50:40 +0000

hi alan
just stumbled upon your feed2js website and am stoked to have found it
i wanted to use it to pull recent posts from our blog and display on admin page of a site

my question is this…

the page is on a https:// connection so now when i include the js it makes a warning pop up saying page isnt secure, due to the jx being http:// not https:
it tried cahnging to https:// but didnt work…you dont haev a ssl installed hey?

is there a way to fix this without having to install it on my host (im a bit of a code newbie) as i love the simplicity of just including a js line

if you could write me back with any clues, whenever you get a moment

and thanks again for this great tool!

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:26:43 +0000

@D’Arcy Norman: Oh yeah, of course. However, then U end up with dupes of songs in iTunes, so then I delete the flacs. It seems 6 vs half dozen- convert from flac outside and add to iTunes or import to flac to iTunes and convert. It’s all good, and my lousy ears would not know lossless from toothless.

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:00:14 +0000

Once they’re into iTunes you should be able to get it to convert to your preferred format – AAC, MP3, Apple Lossless (which will play on iPod/iPhone, but will suck up gobs of storage)

By: Alan Levine aka CogDog

Alan Levine aka CogDog — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:49:39 +0000

@D’Arcy Norman: Good find; I should have expected this. Downsides are (1) the flac files are pretty big; and (2) it looks like w/o a format conversion they wont make it to the iPod/iPhone

By: D'Arcy Norman

D'Arcy Norman — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:14:57 +0000

http://www.simplehelp.net/2008/06/12/how-to-play-flac-files-in-itunes/

looks like iTunes can play them natively, with a little nudge.

By: todd

todd — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:46:29 +0000

I rip all of my audio CD's to flac, then convert them to ogg vorbis for local playback on my PC, then burn the flac albums to DVD for backup. One DVD will hold several CD's worth of music. For me, with kids (and OK, I myself have been known to ruin a CD in the car), it's worth it to back up a lossless copy this way. You should also check out the flac download page for software. Check out the "extras" section where you'll find front-ends for Mac. I generally do all my multimedia stuff on a linux box and transfer to a mac, but when I toyed with the idea of converting on the mac I thought Max was decent.