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FLAC and Snow Leopard

Ok, I brought this up on another forum but no one could really explain it. Hopefully someone here can. Since I upgraded my Mac to OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) I have been able to quickview (command-y or highlight item in finder and press space-bar) FLAC files that play in the finder. Others in the same forum claimed that they were unable to do the same. I assumed that Snow Leopard natively supported FLAC, but perhaps that's not the case.

Someone in the other forum suggested that I had a quicktime FLAC plugin that enabled the Finder to recognize the files. I have not, to the best of my knowledge, installed any such plugin. I use xACT, Max, Cog, and XLD with FLAC files for various purposes. Someone suggested that one of these programs included some sort of plugin, but I'm skeptical of that argument because none of them utilize an installer that would install a quicktime plugin in a separate directory; everything is contained within the application package. Does that make sense?

Is there some way to see what, if any, quicktime plugins are installed on my machine? Is anyone else able to quickview FLAC files in the finder? I'd like to know how to replicate this so that others can take advantage.

Thanks!

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FLAC and Snow Leopard

Reply #1 –
maybe native flac coreaudio support has been released?  apple has already ported flac to it (http://sourceforge.net/projects/coreaudio-flac/).  I think that should make flac available in many places (except of course itunes).

FLAC and Snow Leopard

Reply #2 –
Very interesting. I am running 10.5.8 and have Max, Cog and XLD installed. I am able to listen to FLAC files by right clicking and selecting quick look.

FLAC and Snow Leopard

Reply #3 –
Can play FLAC files through the Get Info Preview and through QuickTime on an Intel MacBook running 10.4.11 with Max, Play, Tag, Cog and XLD all installed - but I'm pretty sure this is my only Mac without QT components installed, so I wasn't expecting it to work here.

FLAC and Snow Leopard

Reply #4 –
Quote from: Lunchbox16 on
Is there some way to see what, if any, quicktime plugins are installed on my machine?


Look in /Library/Quicktime and <Your Home folder>/Library/Quicktime.

FLAC and Snow Leopard

Reply #5 –
Quote from: jcoalson on
maybe native flac coreaudio support has been released?  apple has already ported flac to it (http://sourceforge.net/projects/coreaudio-flac/).  I think that should make flac available in many places (except of course itunes).


Hhmm... it would actually be really cool if they optimised the built-in FLAC encoder for OpenCl, that could mean massive speed increases.
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FLAC and Snow Leopard

Reply #6 –
Someone in the other forum suggested that Fluke was the culprit. Sure enough I have it on my machine, but have never really used it. Do those who get FLAC to play in quickview have Fluke somewhere on their machines as well?
 

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Reply #7 –
FLAC support is (unfortunately!) not built-in to Snow Leopard. Here is a list of the native formats/codecs:
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Audio file and data formats:
    '3gpp' = 3GP Audio (.3gp)
               data_formats: 'aac ' 'samr' 
    '3gp2' = 3GPP-2 Audio (.3g2)
               data_formats: 'aac ' 'samr' 
    'adts' = AAC ADTS (.aac, .adts)
               data_formats: 'aac ' 'aach' 
    'ac-3' = AC3 (.ac3)
               data_formats: 'ac-3' 
    'AIFC' = AIFC (.aifc, .aiff, .aif)
               data_formats: I8 BEI16 BEI24 BEI32 BEF32 BEF64 UI8 'ulaw' 
                             'alaw' 'MAC3' 'MAC6' 'ima4' 'QDMC' 'QDM2' 
                             'Qclp' 'agsm' 
    'AIFF' = AIFF (.aiff, .aif)
               data_formats: I8 BEI16 BEI24 BEI32 
    'amrf' = AMR (.amr)
               data_formats: 'samr' 
    'caff' = Apple CAF (.caf)
               data_formats: '.mp1' '.mp2' '.mp3' 'QDM2' 'QDMC' 'Qclp' 
                             'Qclq' 'aac ' 'aach' 'aacl' 'alac' 'alaw' 
                             'dvi8' 'ilbc' 'ima4' I8 BEI16 BEI24 BEI32 
                             BEF32 BEF64 LEI16 LEI24 LEI32 LEF32 LEF64 
                             'ms\x00\x02' 'ms\x00\x11' 'ms\x001' 'samr' 
                             'ulaw' 
    'm4af' = Apple MPEG-4 Audio (.m4a)
               data_formats: 'aac ' 'aach' 'aacl' 'alac' 
    'MPG1' = MPEG Layer 1 (.mp1, .mpeg, .mpa)
               data_formats: '.mp1' 
    'MPG2' = MPEG Layer 2 (.mp2, .mpeg, .mpa)
               data_formats: '.mp2' 
    'MPG3' = MPEG Layer 3 (.mp3, .mpeg, .mpa)
               data_formats: '.mp3' 
    'mp4f' = MPEG-4 Audio (.mp4)
               data_formats: 'aac ' 'aach' 'aacl' 
    'NeXT' = NeXT/Sun (.snd, .au)
               data_formats: I8 BEI16 BEI24 BEI32 BEF32 BEF64 'ulaw' 
    'Sd2f' = Sound Designer II (.sd2)
               data_formats: I8 BEI16 BEI24 BEI32 
    'WAVE' = WAVE (.wav)
               data_formats: UI8 LEI16 LEI24 LEI32 LEF32 LEF64 'ulaw' 
                             'alaw'
If you are able to QL FLAC files, it is a good bet that Fluke is the "culprit". You can also look in /Library/QuickLook/ and ~/Library/QuickLook/ to see if you have a custom QL generator for FLAC.