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Format converter for Beosound5?

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bayerische
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bayerische Posted: Sat, Jan 17 2015 8:18 PM

Hi guys,

 

What is a good program to convert apple lossless files, and itunes 320 files to readable files by the Beosound 5?

 

Thanks!

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tkl95 replied on Sat, Jan 17 2015 8:46 PM

XLD on OSX and it is free

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beojeff replied on Sat, Jan 17 2015 9:01 PM

I wonder if you might want to hold off on converting those apple lossless files. Now that the Moment supports ALAC, hopefully the BeoSound 5 will see ALAC support in the near future. We've waited years for this. It might be worth waiting just a few months longer.

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Well, you can always hope, that that will happen - I am not so sure about it.

Why not just convert the files now - and enjoy having a backup of them....just in case.

MM

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Yeah, I will not wait. :D

 

Want my music now. 

 

I guess saving them to another location won't actually change the source files media type....?

 

Have my BS5 up and running now. Why didn't I get this earlier....?

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bayerische replied on Sat, Jan 17 2015 10:02 PM

Seems like this XLD can only do one file at a time?

No batch process? 

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bayerische replied on Sat, Jan 17 2015 10:02 PM

Seems like this XLD can only do one file at a time?

No batch process? 

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Puncher replied on Sat, Jan 17 2015 10:54 PM

Answering on my phone right now so cant check it out properly on t'net but dbpoweramp was always music file converter I trusted, although I've never needed it for a while - might be worth checking out! 

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bayerische replied on Sat, Jan 17 2015 11:04 PM

Puncher:

Answering on my phone right now so cant check it out properly on t'net but dbpoweramp was always music file converter I trusted, although I've never needed it for a while - might be worth checking out! 

Thanks!

 

Will it handle cover art? No one I've tried sofar manages to get the cover art.... 

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bayerische replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 12:30 AM

Seems to be a big problem getting cover art to FLAC? From M4A???

Any suggestions? 

 

 

 

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koning replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 1:40 AM

DBpoweramp music converter!

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Carolpa replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 5:22 AM

EZ CD Audio Converter (www.poikosoft.com)

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Will these get the coverart onboard?

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koning replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 9:35 AM

dbpoweramp does

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koning:

dbpoweramp does

OK, thanks. Seems to be a windows application though. Sad

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bayerische:

koning:

dbpoweramp does

OK, thanks. Seems to be a windows application though. Sad

At least something that a Win-OS can do better, than a Mac-OS Huh?

You could borrow a Win laptop for a weekend and do the convertion there - instead of

chasing the 'right' Mac appplication (which won't be easy to find).

 

MM

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bayerische replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 10:19 AM

Millemissen:

bayerische:

koning:

dbpoweramp does

OK, thanks. Seems to be a windows application though. Sad

At least something that a Win-OS can do better, than a Mac-OS Huh?

You could borrow a Win laptop for a weekend and do the convertion there - instead of

chasing the 'right' Mac appplication (which won't be easy to find).

 

MM

I do have windows on both my MBA on parallels, and as a stand alone on a HD on my "Hackintosh", however, Windows won't find drives formatted to OS X extended journaled.

I have 160Gb or so music files, that will be roughly twice the size I think. Not too great to shuffle them with a 8gb USB stick! Big Smile 

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bayerische replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 11:12 AM

Max converter does this beautifully for Mac! 

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tournedos replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 11:55 AM

bayerische:
Have my BS5 up and running now. Why didn't I get this earlier....?

I'm not sure, but I remember plenty of people saying in the past how they will never get such a pointless product because it doesn't have X and doesn't do Y Big Smile

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bayerische replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 12:04 PM

tournedos:

bayerische:
Have my BS5 up and running now. Why didn't I get this earlier....?

I'm not sure, but I remember plenty of people saying in the past how they will never get such a pointless product because it doesn't have X and doesn't do Y Big Smile

Pictures are required! Yes - thumbs up

I was one of them! Big Smile

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Steph replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 3:18 PM

Why did you changed your mind ?

Are you happy with the BeoSound 5 now ?

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Steph:

Why did you changed your mind ?

Are you happy with the BeoSound 5 now ?

I love the Radio feature of it, living in a small town with a very *shitty* ADSL, going to change it in spring once the contract is up! (Thanks for nothing Sonera) I really enjoy the fact that the Bombaster 5 buffers the radio properly, so a 20sec or so internet timeout isn't meaning radio-hiccups!

But it's been in my house for about 20 hours, so hard to say if I'm happy with it yet. Bit of a pain to convert & transfer all the FLAC files. Must remember to make a backup of them too! 

 

The promised pics:

 

 

 

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Steph replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 3:35 PM

Thanks !

Great pictures !

Agree with you, Nradio is a great feature. MOTS too. And i really love the design, the wheel,... The whole user experience.

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elephant replied on Sun, Jan 18 2015 9:50 PM
@bayerisch

Did you hide the cables and base unit inside the wooden box ?

Did you make use of the crack on the lid ? Or drill hole(s) ?

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elephant:
@bayerisch

Did you hide the cables and base unit inside the wooden box ?

Did you make use of the crack on the lid ? Or drill hole(s) ?

This is a temporary solution. 

Yes the Beomaster is inside the middle box, there's three of them. 

Didn't drill in them, since this is a temporary solution, and we want the boxes whole. Smile

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