Instructions apply to iOS 10 and earlier iOS versions.

Using a FLAC player means that you don’t have to know which formats iOS understands.

The only downfall to this approach is getting the music collection into the media player.

Three iOS screens showing Open in, Copy to VOX and VOX player

For this reason, a FLAC player is only helpful if your songs are FLAC-based.

After you upload the audio files, import them into the media player.

To complete this process involvingGoogle Driveand VOX, do these things:

Find the FLAC file inGoogle Drive.

ALAC option in MediaHuman Audio Converter

TapOpen in>Copy to VOX.

The file opens in the VOX app and starts to play.

To convert FLAC to ALAC, use anaudio file converter.

iTunes Preferences menu item

Load the FLAC files into the program or web service.

ChooseALACas the output format.

An online audio converter tool is handy but inconvenient if you plan to convert more than a few files.

Import Settings in iTunes Preferences

An offline tool like MediaHuman’s software is better suited for converting a large collection of files.

Plus,iTunesis compatible with ALAC, so it syncs these files straight to your iPhone.

Open iTunes and go toEdit>Preferences(Windows) oriTunes>Preferences(Mac).

Apple Lossless Encoder option in Import Settings for iTunes

In theGeneral Preferencesdialog box, go to theGeneraltab and selectImport tweaks.

In theImport Settingsdialog box, select theImport Usingdrop-down arrow and chooseApple Lossless Encoder.

In theGeneral Preferencesdialog box, selectOKto return to iTunes.

OK button in iTunes' General Preferences window

To open your music library, selectMusic, go to theLibrarytab, then selectSongs.

pick the files to convert to ALAC.

SelectFile>Convert>Create Apple Lossless Version.

Songs in iTunes

Create Apple Lossless Version menu item in iTunes

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