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opan on Jan 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping

In my school days I was able to add FLAC support to an iPod Touch 4th gen with a quick Cydia module(?) download. I'm skeptical of your claim that macOS doesn't support FLAC. I'm sure mpv and other programs can play it fine. Do you just mean support in the default-installed macOS software? That seems like pretty limiting criteria. I wouldn't expect something like Windows Media Player to cover all that much either.

gjsman-1000 on Jan 15, 2023 [–]

I’m talking about stock macOS, yes.

> something like Windows Media Player to cover all that much either

Well, in Windows 11, Windows Media Player does support ALAC. Heck, it will even rip your CDs and encode them in ALAC.

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