How to tunr FLAC into Apple Lossless


Hi, I am switching over to a Mac and want to change the FLAC files from my PC into Apple Losless in order to use Itunes. I'm worried that if i import the files, Itunes will convert them to lossy (?) MP3 type files. Will Max help me do this? Any ideas are appreciated? Thanks!
sammie

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If you go to the "Preferences" dialog box in iTunes (under the Edit menu), click on the 'Advanced' tab, then on the 'Importing' tab you'll see the choices for importing files. The possiblities are AAC, AIFF, Apple Lossless, MP3 and WAV.

If you import WMA files into iTunes, and you have set the iTunes preferences to use Apple Lossless as the import format, iTunes will convert the files on import, after asking your first.

In the "View options" dialog box under the "View" menu you can click on "Kind" and the file type will show up as one of the columns you see alongside each song that's been imported, a nice feature if you have a mix of file types because you can use that column to sort the songs.
AIFF files are 'full size.'

Apple Lossless files take up about half the space of AIFF or WAV files.