Do Macs Play FLAC?

@2psyop 
i understand what you said, but the point is that I am playing FLAC through iTunes.  I am also running a trial of Audirvana Plus, but the files played before I added this, and if I disable Audirvana they still play through iTunes 

@ghosthouse 
The most recent iTunes version, because I just did an update about a week ago.

Ignore the above...just figured out that with dbpoweramp The files get stored in the Music part of the Mac, and from there have to be moved to the NAS.  I will rip some more discs in FLAC (I had changed the codec to Apple Lossless to see if that would help) and report back

 The plot thickens.  I just downloaded the Mac version of dbpoweramp and attempted to rip 2 albums in FLAC.  They haven’t shown up on the NAS (or on the SSD of the Mac)
 One possibility is that I’ve not used the software correctly.  The other is that the Mac is somehow blocking a FLAC file from finding it’s way  to the NAS.
  Recall in my OP that the original FLAC files on the NAS were transferred directly from the Bluesound Vault, which rips and stores in FLAC.  The weird thing is that these files played back on the Mac
without having to be converted to another format 

Ripped another disc in FLAC and it plays on the Mac
@25105 are you trying to play from a NAS?

Oh, that’s a different issue, I was asking if the hardware was capable at all of playing FLAC.  I couldn’t merge my files into iTunes on the Mac either, although they seemlessly merge on the NAS and play back via iTunes..Have you called Apple support to inquire?

Traditionally flax has been better with metadata, but as you say Roon is handling the metadata just fine, I wouldn’t change anything that you are doing 

Ok, flac, not flax

Btw, I was reviewing my notes from last summer, and the IT guy that helped me transfer FLAC files from my Bluesound Vault2 to the NAS scoured the files on the NAS to make sure that wasn’t some software, somewhere, that was converting the FLAC files into an Apple friendly format, and he couldn’t identify one.

Sorry, Blind Jim, this was the older thread that I was thinking of.