Can iTunes play .flac files? Can it do so natively or be modified to do so? Can it import .flac files, converting them to .mp3 or .mp4 or .aac or something?
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FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), as its name suggested, is a free lossless audio codec. FLAC can compress audio to about 50~60% without any quality loss. This format has been widely accepted by many Hi-Fi systems and audiophiles. However, it is not a compatible audio format with iTunes and all Apple devices.

So you have to use a Audio converter for Mac tool to convert FLAC files to an iTunes-friendly format like mp3. Note that you can select MP3 as the output format here, mainly because of its wider compatibility. After iTunes FLAC conversion, you can successfully import FLAC to iTunes library for any use.

Here Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac works as a top FLAC to iTunes Converter for Mac. It provides fast access to high-qualified converting from FLAC audio files to AAC, AIFF, MP3 audio files on Mac OS X (Yosemite included) for importing to iTunes smoothly and play them perfectly on your iPhone 6(Plus), iPod Touch 5, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3, Apple TV 3, etc.

And as a video converter, it supports converting videos including Tivo recordings, common video files like MKV, VOB, WMV, AVI, FLV, F4V, etc. and AVCHD, MTS/M2TS, MOD, TOD, VRO, MOV videos shot by Sony, Canon, JVC, Panasonic, Nikon camcorders or DSLR cameras. Moreover, it allows you to do simple editing to the videos such as cropping, altering video dimension, adding special effect, and adjusting video or audio parameters like Video Resolution/Frame Rate or Audio Sample Rate freely as you like. It has never disappointed any users due to its splendid performance and easy-to-use operation. Or you can find more free audio converters for FLAC Conversion.

Note: This program is cross-platform, and below guide takes Windows screenshots. If you’re running a Windows, please get Video Converter Ultimate. Just make sure you get the right version according to your computer’s operating system.

First download FLAC to iTunes Converter:

Next, please go for the simple steps listed below:

Step 1: Add your favourite FLAC to iMedia Converter for Mac by clicking the button “Add Video”.

Step 2: Click the edit button and tap the “Trim” icon, and then drag the process bar to the trim points to get your wanted part. You can find the exact start time and end time in the “Start” and “End” boxes. Finally click the “OK” icon to confirm.

Step 3: Set the “MP3-MPEG Layer-3 Audio(*.mp3)” as the output format for successfully adding to iTunes.

Tips: Your original audios comes in several parts and you want to combine them into a single file for continuous playback? Just turn on the “Merge into one file” option, then your video will be merged into one automatically after conversion. On the other hand, you can also cut a big audio file into smaller clips by clicking “Split selected task”.

In addition, you can customize profile parameters like audio codec, audio sample rate, audio bitrate, audio channels, and more as below.

Step 4: Click the Convert button to start the conversion. It will convert the FLAC to personalized MP3 for iTunes on Mac OS X (Yosemite included) immediately.

After the conversion is done, you are able to get the output files from the output folder for importing to iTunes music library. In this way, you’ll find you can add FLAC media content to iTunes and sync to iPhone, iPad easily without any limitation.

Further Reading

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• Play Any WMA on all iPhone devices Easily

Have you ever encountered can’t add MP4 to iTunes (the new iTunes 12 included) for syncing to your iDevices later? MP4, as a container format, differs in video codec. The reason of iTunes won’t import MP4, no mater by dragging and dropping or by selecting Add File to Libray… from iTunes menu, is iTunes supports most of MP4 files, but not All.

Fortunately, you simply need an MP4 Video converter to convert your unsupported MP4 video to iTunes-friendly format. Pavtube MP4 to iTunes Converter, actually an easy-to-use but powerful Video to iTunes Converter for Mac. It not only can convert MP4 to iTunes natively supported media format on Mac OS X (Yosemite and Mavericks included) with fast encoding speed and without quality loss., but also can convert any other video formats including MPEG, AVI, MKV, FLV, RMVB, VOB, MTS, Tivo, WMV, etc. and even H.265 video to iTunes playable video. If you are facing MP4 to iTunes playback issue on Windows, turn to Windows version. Let’s start the conversion.

Step-by-step guide to Copy all kinds of MP4 videos to iTunes on Mac

First download MP4 to iTunes Converter:

Step 1: Load source MP4 videos

Launch Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac, and you may either click “Add Video” button to import .MP4 files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program. If you’d like to combine multiple MP4 files to be a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Step 2: Select output format

This MP4 to iTunes Converter offers the iTunes Movie Format for you. Or, you can also choose “Common Video -> MOV – QuickTime(*.mov)” as the target format.

Step 3: Adjust audio and video parameters

To make good control of the output file size and quality, you can adjust all the items in the following interface, including codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. To bear least quality loss, you may set A/V parameters according to the source MP4 files.

Step 4: Start transcoding MP4 to iTunes MOV

Finally, press the convert button; it will start to convert MP4 files to iTunes friendly video format immediately.

After the conversion completed you can click on “Open” button in the main interface to get the generated files and load the video to iTunes library and then transfer them to iPhone, iPad for playback via iTunes effortlessly.

Have you ever got into a hobble that your new iPhone 6 Plus cannot play M4V file? This article will explain the reason why iPhone series won’t import M4V video files as well as provide the solution on how to solve can’t import M4V to iPhone issue.

Why Fail to Put M4V to iPhone series

In general, M4V is one of iPhone natively supported formats. If you failed to import M4V files into iPhone series to play, it is likely to happen in the following two situations:

Situation 1.

The M4V files are purchased or rented from iTunes Store. These types of videos are protected by Apple’s FairPlay DRM copy protection. To play them, your iPhone need to be authorized by the iTunes account that is used to buy these M4V videos. Or you can’t play iTunes DRM M4V files on iPhone series normally.

Situation 2.

The M4V files are DRM free. And they are being wrapped in M4V container. But the inner content is not produced by Apple Inc., therefore, the encoder, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, etc. can’t be recognized by your iPhone. To fix this issue, you can follow the guide below.

Successfully sync all M4V files to iPhone series for Free Playback

To save M4V to iPhone series, you have to convert iTunes DRM and DRM-free .m4v to iPhone series readable format with the right video coder or video parameter beforehand. To get the job done, a solid and intuitive DRM Converter- Pavtube ChewTune  is introduced to remove M4V DRM protection and convert these iTunes M4V rentals and purchases to iPhone with zero quality loss in just 3 simple steps.

With the optimized preset for any generation of iPhone, you can easily convert M4V to iPhone 6(Plus) as well as other generations of iPhone, be it iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S, in a fraction of seconds. Please read on to get details.

Step-by-Step Guide to Convert and import M4V to iPhone series with High Quality

Step 1. Load your iTunes M4V to Pavtube M4V to iPhone Converter (For Mac users: ChewTune for Mac). You can either browser to file location or drag and drop source iTunes file to the app.

Step 2. Choose the optimized profile for iPhones. Click on the drop-down list at the opposite side of “Format”, and then choose “iPhone > iPhone 6 Plus H.264 Full Screen/Full HD 1080P(*.mp4)” format. Or select other video format for youR iPhone series.

Step 3. Is necessary, you could set video and audio parameters such as video and audio codec, bitrate, frame rate, etc so that better video and audio quality can be transferred to your iPhone series.

Step 4. Hit the “Convert” button to start iTunes M4V to iPhone MP4 recording.

Since Pavtube ChewTune records source DRM videos in 1:1 video and audio quality, it would take as long as the source movie length for the whole DRM video to iPhone conversion process.

Once it completes, open output folder, locate the created MP4 file. Freely launch iTunes and sync converted movies to your iPhones from PC/Mac. As you see, you can play iTunes purchased M4V videos on as well as DRM free .m4v files on iPhone 4S/5/5S/6/6 Plus with these extremely easy but efficient steps. Have a try!

Other media files like WMA audio and flash video can be played on iPhone series.

Let me guess. You had downloaded some funny videos from YouTube.com, then you want to add your downloaded YouTube video to iTunes library for playback with your iPhone, iPad, iPod, etc. on the go. But it stuck in the very beginning – import.

Apparently there’s a workaround to get rid of the issue. Since YouTube FLV is not recognized by iTunes, what you need to do next is to convert YouTube to iTunes natively supported format MP4, MOV or M4V, so a YouTube to iTunes converter is needed to accomplish the task.

Here this professional yet easy-to-use YouTube Video Converter- Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate gives you a hassle free experience. (Read best Video Converter Ultimate review) It offers you ultra-fast conversion speed, loss-less video quality, extremely easy conversion steps. This converter can be used to convert any downloaded YouTube video to iTunes compatible format without any hassles. And then all I need is to drag the result videos to iTunes for easy playback and management. What’s more, editing the video is another advantage which means you can customize the video as you like. For mac users, please turn to iMedia Converter for Mac.

How to Convert YouTube to iTunes with high video quality

Step 1. Load YouTube videos

Launch the YouTube to iTunes Converter; click “Add Video” button to import YouTube files into the program. Loaded YouTube clips can be previewed in the right preview window.

Step 2. Decide on output format

Click the drop down box of “Format”, through which it is possible to select iTunes friendly video format like HD MP4, HD MOV, MPEG-4 HD from “HD Video” profile list.

If you want to add YouTube to iTunes for playing on iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, etc., you can also directly select iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or iPod as the output format to get videos with optimized settings for your iDevices.

Step 3. Start converting YouTube to iTunes

The final step is to tap the Convert button and commence converting YouTube to iTunes files. After the conversion, click on “Open” button to access to the videos you converted. Open your iTunes and import the YouTube to its Movies library. Below are steps:

1. Download and run the latest iTunes.
2. Click File > Add File to Library.
3. Click View and select Movies, then your movie library will be presented.
4. Click Home Videos and now you can find your transferred videos. In this interface, you can also directly drag and drop local video files.

Additional features of the best YouTube to iTunes Converter:

a. Profile settings. If you need, you can also click “Settings” to modify parameters of your output profile to meet your professional needs: bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, etc.

b. Edit YouTube movies (Optional). You can even use its provided Edit feature to edit your output video by cropping, adding watermarks, trimming and setting special effect so on.

Now you can put your favorite YouTube FLV movies on your iOS device and enjoy them on the go anywhere and anytime! Besides YouTube FLV, DVD, H.265 and MKV video can be syncing to iTunes library effortlessly.

As we know, iPhone will not play WAV audio files natively. Although iTunes announced to support WAV audio files, there are some ways to play WAV audio in iPhone, this subject is still not easy for most people.

What is WAV file format?

WAV is a file format for audio files within the Windows operating system. There are ways to make the file play within the Mac and Linux operating systems, but for the most part the file is more common within Windows. WAV stands for Waveform Audio File Format and is actually short for WAVE. This file format is typically used for uncompressed and raw audio. The equivalent to the WAV file format on a Mac is the AIFF format which is commonly used within the program iTunes.

Which are iPhone’s friendly audio formats?

The current supported audio formats for the iPhone are:

• AAC (Bitrates 8 to 320 Kbps)
• HE-AAC
• Protected AAC (used for DRM copy protection on the iTunes Store)
• ALAC (Apple Lossless)
• MP3 (bitrates 8 to 320 Kbps)
• MP3 VBR (Variable Bitrate)
• AA (Audible formats 2, 3, 4) / Audible Enhanced Audio / AAX / AAX+
• WAV
• AIFF

Your WAV files may come from different sources and some of them are even protected by DRM. If you want to know an easy way to play WAV audio files in iPhone series, like the newest iPhone 6(plus), this article is exactly what you should read.

Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is a WAV to iPhone MP3 converter which is able to convert WAV and other audio formats like FLAC, WMA, M4A, MKA to iPhone compatible MP3 audio format for enjoying. Also it can extract DTS audio from M2TS or other audio formats from BD/DVD for listening to. Following steps are a full guide to convert WAV audio file to MP3 for playing in all iPhone series on Windows.

Steps to Convert WAV to MP3 to Play in All iPhone Series

Step 1. Import WAV files to this WAV to iPhone MP3 converter

Launch this iPhone audio converter. Click the button “Add Video” to add a WAV audio file. You can double click the file to have a pre-listen.

Tips:

1. You can click the pencil button to edit the audio file if you like, you can trim and crop the audio. “Trim” allows you to decide the beginning and the end of the the audio file so you can remove the part you don’t like.

2. You can click “Settings” to set “Codec”, “Sample Rate(hz)”, “Bitrate(bps)”, “Channels” of the audio file.

Step 2. Select MP3 to be the output format for iPhone

Click the “Format” bar, you can see “Common Audio”-“MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio(*.mp3)” which is acceptable audio format for all the iPhone series.

Step 3. Start to convert the WAV to iPhone’s friendly MP3

Click the “Convert” button, the iPhone audio converter will start o transfer WAV to MP3 automatically.

After the conversion from WAV to iPhone MP3, you can sync the output MP3 audio file to your any iPhone(6/6 plus/5/5S/4S) model you have via iTunes. As a fan of Apple, of course it is easy for you. If you are Mac users, turn to Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac to help you.

What is WMA

WMA (Windows Media Audio) is a common audio format used on Windows and enjoys equal popularity with MP3. This WMA can do a more excellent work than MP3 in the low Kbps with the small size.

Due to some right protection or other reasons, it is impossible to play WMA on Apple products, neither on Macs nor iOS devices like iPhone. But don’t worry, here offers you the best solution to make WMA songs playable on all iPhone models like iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S.

To get the work done, you just need to convert convert your WMA files to iPhone friendly MP3 format along with the third party softwares. I mean you can achieve your goal smoothly with a professional iPhone Audio Converter . With luck, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate is here for you which is able to convert WMA as well as other popular audio formats like FLAC, WAV, M4A, MKA to iPhone compatible MP3 audio format for enjoying in no time. Besides, you are allowed to edit the WMA audios by trimming to get the very wanted part as you like before converting. Mac version is iMedia Converter for Mac. Below is how.

Guide: Convert WMA to MP3 for All iPhone models

Step 1: Add WMA to the best iPhone Audio Converter

Launch Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate. Click the button “Add Video” to add WMA audio files. If it is necessary, you can double click the each file to have a pre-listen.

Tip: If you wanna join your several WMA files into single one, just check the “Merge into one” box. Afterwards, you can play WMA files on your iPhone models without interruption.

Step 2: Select MP3 as the output format for iPhone and set the output folder.

Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Common Audio”, under the sublist, you can find the “MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio(*.mp3)” which is compatible for All iPhone models. And then you can select the output folder clicking the “Browse” icon.

Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to adjust audio parameters.

Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. You can change codec, sample rate, bitrate and channels to appropriate parameter.

Step 4: Trim WMA audio before conversion

If you want to get your desired audio, you can click “Edit” icon. The “Trim” feature allows users to decide where to start and where to end when converting the selected clip, so that unwanted segments will be cut out after conversion.

To set your audio length, please switch to “Trim” tab in “Video Editor” Interface and follow any of the methods below:

a. Drag the control sliders to include the segment you want to remain.
b. Click the left square bracket to set start point, and click the right square bracket to set end point when previewing the video.
c. Input specific values to “Start” and “End” box.

Step 4: Start converting your WMA to iPhone MP3 format.

Click the “Convert” button; it will convert WMA to MP3 for All iPhone models immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.

After the WMA to iPhone MP3 conversion, you will be able to get the output files for iPhone via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Now you can sync/transfer WMA to All iPhone models(iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5, iPhone 4S) from PC for enjoying easily.

In additon, Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate can also be taken as a iPhone Video Converter to handle camera videos and convert them for watching on All iPhone models. And for DRM protected WMA files, turn to ChewTune to help you.

Further Reading:

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Dropbox is a mobile document and media storage tool that allows you to sync you files online for backup. Download some funny videos from YouTube and want to put them on your new iPad, iPhone and Android via Dropbox? However, it’s a hassle to get all the way to the end only to discover that your YouTube video file won’t play on your iPad, iPhone and Android from Dropbox since FLV is not compatible with most mobile devices. No worry, let’s see the tutorial below to help you get out of this dilemma.

Step 1. Save your online video from YouTube with a YouTube Downloader

Step 2. Convert YouTube video to Dropbox before uploading

To convert the existing downloaded YouTube video, the professional YouTube Video Converter supplies you ultra-fast conversion speed as well as loss-less quality when convertint YouTube FLV video to upload on Dropbox and playback on iPad/iPhone/Android. In addition, it provides an optimized preset for populsr iPad, iPhone, Android models so you don’t need to worry about the settings for your certain devices. For mac users, read this review. Download a free trial version and start covnersion.

First, click the “Add Video” icon to add your source YouTube videos, or drag-and-drop them directly. Batch conversion is supported, you can import more than one file at one time to ease your conversion and save time. Check the “Merge into one file” box to join several files.

Second, click the drop-down list on the bottom, to get best video quality on iPad/iPhone/Android, you are suggested to choose a device-friendly format (MP4 or MOV recommended). Or just search the device you want to play to by enter the name in the serch box and find the profile.

Third, click “Settings” to open profiles settings window. Here you are able to customize video size, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate(Hz)…all the specs can be fixed manually.

At last, go ahead and hit the “Convert” to start converting Youtube downloaded videos to iPad/iPhone/Android supported MP4 format for playback from Dropbox. It will pop up a conversion window with detailed prorecess. Wait for moments, you can click “Open output folder” to locate the converted video directly. Or you can check “shut down computer after conversion” and just leave it running.

After conversion, click “open” and find the converted videos and move your files into your Dropbox by dragging and dropping them into your Dropbox folder. Depending on the file size and the speed of your internet connection, the movie could take a few minutes to a few hours to sync to Dropbox.

Tip: Other than its ability of converting Youtube video, it can also fast convert Blu-ray, DVD and other SD/HD videos like H.265 video to for playback on all new gadgets at one go. It’s supported by CUDA/AMD acceleration technology.

Step 3: Play YouTube from Dropbox for iPad/iPhone/Android

Here take iPad as an example, if you use Dropbox, be sure to download and install the Dropbox app from the iTunes App Store. Furthermore, you can download and install the desktop app on your computer. Otherwise, you’ll be using the web interface.

Once your movies are synced, you’ll then be able to access it in the Dropbox app on your iPad. From there, you either watch it directly in the Dropbox app or watch it in the Videos app on your iPad.

To watch the movie directly in the Dropbox app, you can begin playing it in the app if you have an internet connection. Otherwise, you’ll need to tap on the star icon in the upper-right corner and save the movie to the Dropbox app in order to watch it offline.

Note: If you want to export the movie to your iPad and watch it in the Videos app on your iPad, you’ll need to tap on the Share icon in the upper-right corner and then tap on Save Video.

Apart from Dropbox, you can also put movies onto your iPad using iTunes, Google Drive or other cloud storage service. Just have a try!

As the free lossless audio codec, FLAC is favored by many audiophiles who prefer the high quality of sound. However, FLAC format is still a tough format for Apple devices, even with the new Apple device type, iPhone.

So, what the best way to import and enjoy FLAC on iPhone with high quality?

Method 1: Install FLAC player for iPhone without conversion

FLAC Player for iPhone is the original audiophile-quality music player designed for lossless, gap-less playback of FLAC albums and live recordings on iOS.

Key Features

1. Lossless, gapless FLAC playback engineered for iPhone 6/6 Plus/5S/5/4S.
2. Decodes FLAC files at full quality/resolution including 24-bit/96kHz, with onboard playback up to 16-bit/48kHz.
3. 24-bit/96kHz and higher playback with USB DAC and Camera Connection Kit (Now supports iPhone, see website).
4. View FLAC Metadata, Stream Info, and Audio Hardware info.
   Browse/Play by Album and Artist.

The FLAC Player for iPhone costs $9.99 and can be purchased from the App Store on iTunes.

Note: This method allows you to play FLAC on iPhone without conversion. However, since FLAC is lossless audio, though it is compressed, it still takes lots of spaces comparing those of compressed files such as MP3 files. If you care about file size space, you can refer to Method 2.

Method 2: Convert FLAC to play on iPhone

Since both iTunes and iPhone devices support several digital audio file formats, including M4A, MP3, WAV, AIFF, and Apple Lossless, you’ll probably have to convert the FLAC audio files.

To accomplish the task, here we recommend you the easy-to-use FLAC to iPhone Converter, it will also cost you some dollars, but can help you get rid of the incompatibility of FLAC and iPhone playback problems on iPhone by converting FLAC to iPhone accepted MP3, M4A, WAV, MKA, M4A, OGG, AC3, etc. What’s more,  with its built-in editor, you can freely cut the audio clip so as to get the part you want. If you are Mac users, refer to the mac version and here is the equivalent mac workflow.

Guide: Convert FLAC auido files to iPhone frinedly MP3/M4A format

Step 1: After the installation of this top iPhone converter, run it to import your FLAC files to the program clicking the add file button. Check Merge into one box and the converter will extract audio from all the selected files in file list and combined the audio as one file.

Step 2: Click Format bar, point to Common Audio group and then select the audio format you like. In this situation, you have two options: convert FLAC to M4A or to MP3. M4A is newer than MP3, higher quality, and designed to replace it. With M4A, you can get higher quality with lower bitrates and file size.

Tip:  You can reduce the audio to exactly what you want by clicking Edit ->Trim. And you can also import another FLAC file and replace its original audio track by utilizing Audio Replace function under Edit Menu.

Step 3: Tap the Settings icon to modify audio codec, sample rate, bitrate, channel. Do not forget to type in output path in Output bar to set a destination folder.

Step 4: Hit the “Convert” button to start the FLAC to iPhone conversion. After conversion you can play them whenever and wherever you like.

When the conversion ends, click the Open button on the main interface to find the converted MP3/M4A auido files. Afterwards, sync and listen to FLAC audio on your iPhone 6/6 Plus/5S/5/4S anytime anywhere. Also you can extract audio from Blu-ray/DVD for playback.