I don’t know how this escaped me for so long, but I just discovered a plugin for Mac OS X that allows iTunes to read and play FLAC files. It’s call Fluke. Very easy to install and use. And it’s free.

I used to use a program called COG as the player for my FLAC files. It worked alright, but I’ve had problems with it. So I switched to playing album by album with VLC which doesn’t have a functioning library browser. For the amount of music I have on this computer and hard drive, I really needed a browser like iTunes. Fluke allows me to play my MP3’s side-by-side with these FLAC files. My library size just increased by more than 30GB!!!

You can read up on and download Fluke right here.

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In other news, these new Beatles remasters sound amazing. Listening to Past Master Volume 2 at the moment. “Rain” and “Lady Madonna” sound particularly incredible.