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I usually defend Apple from people who attack iTunes, but this is a huge, huge drawback to the program: its reliance on QuickTime. Since QuickTime doesn't support FLAC, you're dead. You have to convert FLACs to something else that QuickTime can play. It would take Apple 5 seconds to just support this codec, but they have their heads firmly shoved in their nether regions on this subject.
My advice is stick with Apple Lossless, because of its support of tagging and embedded images. If you have to swap files with somebody who needs FLAC, you can always use cheap utilities like (Win) or (Mac) to convert them. To Coldacre: I did try Fluke, but it was very buggy and flakey, and I wound up de-installing it. I don't blame the Russian developer - Apple deliberately makes it very hard for people to modify QuickTime, because it's an integrated part of Mac OSX. I can't afford for QuickTime to lock up and go wonky on me, because I run too much stuff that depends on it.
CD audio converted to FLAC will typically be reduced to 50 percent of its. Apple Lossless Audio Codec (or ALAC) was developed by Apple and works. This is a free app that is available for Apple computers running MacĀ® OS X 10.4.