Free flac file software for mac

Say File is a small AppleScript, written by Joe Erickson, that will take any text file and say it. You can also put special meta tags, like, in the document to have the text said in different voices (e.g. Albert says this. Fred says this).

Completly freeware.

Spotlight importers expose metadata in files to Spotlight, allowing easy, powerful desktop searching of your computers contents.

FLACImporter is a Spotlight importer for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) files, allowing Spotlight searches on the files metadata such as title, album, artist and genre.

Located here is a basic decoder for Apple Lossless Audio Codec files (ALAC). ALAC is a proprietary lossless audio compression scheme. Apple never released any documents on the format.
What I provide here is a C implementation of a decoder, written from reverse engineering the file format. It turns out that most of the algorithms in the codec are fairly well known. ALAC uses an adaptive FIR prediction algorithm and stores the error values using a modified rice or golumb algorithm. Further details are in alac.c.

Although an encoder is not provided, by using the decoder as a sort of specification it should be fairly trivial to write an encoder. By exploiting other lossless audio encoders, such as FLAC, the task will be much easier. Although one wouldnt be able to copy the compression algorithms verbatim, as adaptive compression is used in ALAC and not in FLAC. There are, however, a bunch of academic papers on the issue.

The program located here will not be able to handle all ALAC files, it can only handle mono or stereo files. ALAC allows up to 8 channels. It should be trivial to finish the implementation once I find files that I can test it with. Likewise the decoder only supports 16bit sample sizes. Again, it should be trivial to fix.

The decoder is fairly self explanatory, it can read an ALAC stream from either a file or from stdin, and write it as raw PCM data or as a WAV file to either stdout or a file. In theory one should be able to stream data to the decoder.

MacFLAC is a graphical frontend for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), developed using Applescript Studio.
It uses the flac binaries developed by Josh Coalson.
MacFLAC 2.1.2 - GUI frontend app that is used to encode, decode, and generate fingerprints for FLAC files.
Enhancements:
- Added test option
- Added working progress bars
- Improved user interface.

File WIZ can edit the File Type and Creator for MacOS files. You can edit two files simultaneously and set one file based on the other. Manually edit the type / creator or select one from your custom list.
Main features:
Multiple Files
- Work with two files simultaneously.
- Set the type / creator for the first file based on the second or vice versa.
- Drag and drop files onto the window.
- Manually edit the type / creator or select one from your custom list.
Single File
- Work with one file if you prefer.
- Drag and drop files onto the window.
- Manually edit the type / creator or select one from your custom list.
Popup options
- Save the Type / Creator into your custom list.
- Edit the entries within your custom list.
- Select entries from your custom list to apply to the current file.
Edit Custom List
- View and edit the entries within your custom list.
- Specify a name for the Type / Creator combination.
- Modify the Type / Creator for each of the entries.
- Remove entries from the list.

A package of AppleScripts which simplify the following tasks: (a) encoding in FLAC of AIFF or WAVE tracks selected in iTunes and converting ID3 tags to FLAC comments, (b) decoding FLAC files to AIFF or WAVE and converting FLAC comments to iTunes ID3 tags, (c) encoding audio CD images of the bin/cue type to FLAC, and, (d) decoding FLAC-encoded audio CD images.
Requires flac, metaflac, cue2toc and toc2cue (or cueconvert).
Enhancements:
- Several bug fixes.