1<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 2<!-- Copyright (c) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson --> 3<!-- Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document --> 4<!-- under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 --> 5<!-- or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; --> 6<!-- with no invariant sections. --> 7<!-- A copy of the license can be found at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html --> 8<html> 9<head> 10 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> 11 <meta name="author" content="Josh Coalson" /> 12 <meta name="description" content="A free, open source codec for lossless audio compression and decompression" /> 13 <meta name="keywords" content="free,lossless,audio,codec,encoder,decoder,compression,compressor,archival,archive,archiving,backup,music" /> 14 <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-icon" href="favicon.ico" /> 15 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="flac.css" /> 16 <title>FLAC - itunes</title> 17</head> 18 19<body> 20 21<div class="logo"> 22 <a href="http://flac.sourceforge.net/"><img src="images/logo130.gif" alt="FLAC Logo" align="middle" border="0" hspace="0" /></a> 23</div> 24 25<div class="above_nav"></div> 26 27<div class="navbar"> 28 <a href="index.html">home</a> | 29 <a href="faq.html">faq</a> | 30 <a href="news.html">news</a> | 31 <a href="download.html">download</a> | 32 <a href="documentation.html">documentation</a> | 33 <a href="comparison.html">comparison</a> | 34 <a href="changelog.html">changelog</a> | 35 <a href="links.html">links</a> | 36 <a href="developers.html">developers</a> 37</div> 38 39<div class="langbar"> 40 english | 41 russian 42</div> 43 44<div class="below_nav"></div> 45 46<div class="box"> 47 <div class="box_title"> 48 flac + itunes 49 </div> 50 <div class="box_header"></div> 51 <div class="box_body"> 52 Would you like iTunes to support FLAC? So would we!<br /> 53 <br /> 54 Due to the design of iTunes, only Apple can add support for FLAC <a href="#footnote1">[1]</a>. And why wouldn't they? FLAC usage is accelerating, <a href="links.html#music">many bands</a> like Pearl Jam, Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Metallica -- the same hip, influential people whose fans Apple courts -- are already distributing music in FLAC format, and users are clamoring for it in the iTunes forums:<br /> 55 <ul style="list-style-type: none"> 56 <li><a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=784174&;#784174">[2]</a> <i>"I have seen a lot of people on live music message boards turn away from the iPod because there are other music players that support FLAC. I am on the verge... and I am an Apple die-hard!"</i></li> 57 <li><a href="http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=799873&;#799873">[3]</a> <i>"If your source material is FLAC (as many bands have gone this way to distribute online music) your choice is to use another music player ..."</i></li> 58 <li><a href="http://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?threadID=&q=flac&objID=c149&dateRange=all&userID=&numResults=30">[4]</a> (many more requests)</li> 59 </ul> 60 Make your voice heard! <a href="http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html">Fill out the iTunes feedback form</a> (politely!) and let them know. Feel free to also direct them to this page. We at the FLAC project <a href="developers.html">stand ready to help</a> as well.<br /> 61 <br /> 62 <br /> 63 <br /> 64 <a name="footnote1" />[1] <a href="http://xiph.org/quicktime">XiphQT</a>, through tremendous effort by developers, goes as far as possible in allowing some playback capability via QuickTime. But proper iTunes support -- tag handling, no import delays, etc. -- is not possible without Apple.<br /> 65 </div> 66 <div class="box_footer"></div> 67</div> 68 69 70<div class="copyright"> 71 <!-- @@@ oh so hacky --> 72 <table> 73 <tr> 74 <td align="left"> 75 Copyright (c) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007 Josh Coalson 76 </td> 77 <td width="1%" align="right"> 78 <a href="http://sourceforge.net"><img src="http://sflogo.sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=13478&type=1" width="88" height="31" border="0" alt="SourceForge.net Logo" /></a> 79 </td> 80 <td width="1%" align="right"> 81 <a href="http://www.eff.org/cafe/"><img src="images/cafebug.gif" alt="CAFE Logo" border="0" /></a><br /> 82 </td> 83 <td width="1%" align="right"> 84 <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer"><img src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/valid-xhtml10" alt="Valid XHTML 1.0!" height="31" width="88" border="0" hspace="0" /></a> 85 </td> 86 </tr> 87 </table> 88</div> 89 90</body> 91</html> 92
