A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality XLD: GPL here: X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Download foobar2000 for Mac. This application is provided as-is. It is by no means complete, though most of the features implemented are known to work reasonably well. Current version foobar2000 for Mac, v2.2.10 System requirements Mac OS 10.10 'Yosemite' or newer.
All programs mentioned anywhere in the wiki can be downloaded here.See also the Software Category article for more software not listed here.
- 1CD Rippers
- 2CD/DVD Writers
- 3Multimedia Players
- 4Tagging Utilities
- 9Processing utilities
- 10File Archiver - Plugins
CD Rippers[edit]
Windows[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| CUERipper | GPL | here | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality. Forum |
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| dBpoweramp | commercial | here | A secure ripper for Windows that includes Accurate Stream functionality. |
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| EAC | Free | here | A secure ripper for Windows, C2 error pointers, Accurate Stream, etc. |
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| fre:ac | GPL | here | fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various popular formats and encoders. Plus supports the CDDB/freedb online CD database which allows you query song information. |
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Mac OS X[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| Max | GPL | here | A secure ripper for OS X that uses additional cdparanoia functionality |
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| XLD | GPL | here | X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Can convert between many lossless and lossy formats. Plugin oriented design, for easy exchange for new encoders. |
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Linux[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| abcde | GPL | here | A command-line based ripper with cdparanoia functionality |
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| cdparanoia | BSD, GPL | here | One of the first secure standalone rippers for the Linux platform |
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| Grip | GPL | here | An open-source Gnome interface ripper that uses cdparanoia functionality |
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| Rubyripper | GPL | here | A secure ripper for Linux that uses additional cdparanoia functionality |
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| Whipper | GPL | here | A secure ripper for the Linux command-line built on cdparanoia |
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CD/DVD Writers[edit]
Windows[edit]
| Name | Unicode | License | Website | Description |
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| Burrrn (CDA only) | N | Free |
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| CDBurnerXP | Free | here |
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| DeepBurner | N | GPL | here |
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| InfraRecorder | N | GPL | here |
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Mac OS X[edit]
Foobar For Mac Os X 10.7
| Name | Unicode | License | Website | Description |
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| DVD-Audio Tools | Y | GPL | here | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application |
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| FireStarter FX | N | Free | here | Free OS X Cocoa CD writing application |
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| X-CD-Roast | N | Free | here | New OS X port of this Linux CD writing application |
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| Burn | N | Free | here | Versatile CD/DVD authoring application |
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Foobar For Mac Os X Download
Linux[edit]
| Name | Unicode | License | Website | Description |
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| CDRDAO | N | GPL | here | Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode |
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| DVD-Audio Tools | Y | GPL | here | Open-source DVD-Audio authoring application |
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| GnomeBaker | N | GPL | here | Popular open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application |
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| K3b | N | GPL | here | Popular open-source KDE CD writing application for Linux platform |
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| X-CD-Roast | Y | GPL | here | New open-source Gnome interface CD/DVD writing application |
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| Brasero | N | GPL | here | Brasero is a application to burn CD/DVD for the Gnome Desktop.(Gnome Default) |
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Multimedia Players[edit]
Windows[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| foobar2000 | Free, BSD | here | Advanced tagging, plugin capabilities, and kernel streaming support |
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| MediaMonkey | Free, Shareware | here | Supports many Winamp plugins |
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| VUplayer | Free | here | Supports many popular digital audio codecs and MOD tracker formats |
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| Winamp | Free, Shareware | here | Popular audio player for Windows |
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| VLC | LGPL | here | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. |
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| MusicBee | Free, | here | The Ultimate Music Manager and Player, MusicBee supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration. |
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Players / Source code[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| MusikCube | BSD | here | Supports dynamic playlists and advanced SQL capabilities |
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Mac OS X[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| foobar2000 | Free | here | Most of the features implemented are known to work reasonably well. |
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| VOX | Free | here | Mac Music Player for Hi-Res music through the popular sources. |
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| Cog | GPL | here | An open-source digital audio player for OS X. |
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| Play | GPL | here | Play is an application for playing and managing audio files. |
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| VLC | LGPL | here | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. |
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Linux[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| Amarok | GPL | here | Popular open-source KDE audio player similiar to Foobar2000 |
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| Audacious | OSD | here | Audacious is an open source audio player |
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| Clementine | GPL | here | Cross platform media player, a port of Amarok 1.4 to the Qt 4 and GStreamer framework, can be controlled with a Wii remote |
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| DeaDBeeF | GPL | here | Lightweight music player for Linux, GUI similar to Foobar2000 |
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| Rhythmbox | GPL | here | GNOME music player |
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| VLC | LGPL | here | VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats as well as DVDs, |Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols. |
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| XMMS | GPL | here | Popular open-source audio player similiar to Winamp |
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command-line(Shell) players[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| mpg123 | LGPL | here | mpg123 is a real time MPEG audio player/decoder |
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| mplayer for windows | GPL v2 | here | MPlayer is a free and open source media player. |
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| mpv | GPL v2 | here | mpv is a free (as in freedom) media player for the command line. It supports a wide variety of media file formats, audio and video codecs, and subtitle types. also mpv comes with easy user interface. supported platforms Windows, Linux, Mac. |
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Tagging Utilities[edit]
Windows[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| MP3 Book Helper | Free | here | Tags ID3v1, ID3v2.3, and Vorbis comments. Features: FreeDB, unicode, guessing and matching, and supporting PAR, SFV, SV, and NFO generation. |
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| MP3tag | Free | here | Tags all files supporting ID3, APEv2, and Vorbis Comments, not only MP3s |
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| Tag & Rename | Shareware | here |
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| TagScanner | Free | here | Tag editor with built-in audio player. |
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| WMP Tag Plus 2.0 | Free | here | Software to integrate other tag format than ID3 into Microsoft Windows Media Player 11. |
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Mac OS X[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| Tag | GPL | here | An open-source tagging application for OS X |
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Linux[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| Beets | MIT | here | Cross-platform open source tagging application written in Python, CLI only. Uses the Musicbrainz and Mutagen libraries, still in beta. Mostly automatic, minimal user input required. Many features and plugins. (Read the documentation) |
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| EasyTAG | GPL | here | Gnome tagging utility |
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| Puddletag | GPLv3 | here | Puddletag is a Linux audio tag editor similar to Mp3tag |
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Lossy Audio Encoders/Decoders (Classic)[edit]
Lossy audio main focus is to shrink large files to small, lossy is ideal for internet transport and on the go device (Mobile Phone / Players).Classic Current Trends : MP3 (Lame)'
| Name | License | Website | Description | Forum |
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| MP3 | GPL | here | LAME is a lossy audio compression. |
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| Ogg Vorbis | GPL | here | Ogg Vorbis is a lossy audio compression. |
| Musepack | GPL | here | Musepack is a lossy audio compression. |
- Lame/Ogg Builds (Windows)
Looking for Windows Builds, Options available to you : *Developer Site, *Git, *Hydrogenaudio Forum, *Rarewares
In addition, the Lancer suite — a highly SSE-optimized suite of utilities and libraries — are available at this page(in Japanese). See this section for information about the different builds.
Lossy Audio Encoders/Decoders (Future)[edit]
Lossy audio main focus is to shrink large files to small, lossy is ideal for internet transport and on the go device (Mobile Phone / Portable Players).Future Current Trends : AAC (qaac), 'Opus-codec.
| Name | License | Website | Description | Forum |
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| Opus | GPL | here | Opus is a totally open, royalty-free codec. It is primarily designed for interactive speech and music transmission over the Internet. | opus Forum |
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| qaac | GPL | here | qaac is a command line AAC/ALAC encoder frontend based on Apple encoder. | qaac.AAC Forum |
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Lossless Audio Encoders/decoders (Forever)[edit]
Lossless Audio is aimed towards high quality audio, also suitable for high quality backups.Forever Current Trends: flac
| Name | License | Website | Description | Forum |
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| FLAC | GPL | here | FLAC is a lossless audio compression. | flac Forum |
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| Monkey's Audio | here | Monkey's Audio is a lossless audio compression. also Monkey's Audio has a nice GUI converter, ideal for converting (.WAV to .APE) |
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| WavPack | GPL | here | WavPack is a hybrid lossless wavefile compressor. | WavPack Forum |
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Foobar For Windows 10
Looking for Windows Builds, Options available to you : *Developer Site, *Git, *Hydrogenaudio Forum, *Rarewares
Foobar Mac Os X
Transcoders[edit]
Note: Although these tools may convert from one encoding to another, please remember that transcoding to any lossy encoding will result in a degraded quality.
| Name | License | Website | Description | Forum |
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| dBpowerAMP | Shareware | here | dBpoweramp Music Converter |
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| foobar2000 | Freeware | here | Free Encoder Pack for foobar2000. | Forum |
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| fre:ac | GPL | here |
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| ferocious | free | here | Forum |
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| BatchEncoder | MIT license | here | Forum |
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| WinLAME | GPL | here |
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| LossyFlacGUI | here | Optimize flac Audio file. | Forum |
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Processing utilities[edit]
Windows[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| lossyWAV | GPL | here | lossyWAV is a lossy pre-processor for PCM (uncompressed) WAV files. It reduces bit depth of the input signal, which, when used in conjunction with certain lossless codecs, reduces the bitrate of the encoded file significantly. |
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File Archiver - Plugins[edit]
Windows[edit]
| Name | License | Website | Description |
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| WavPack7z | here | WavPack7z is a plugin for the popular 7-Zip archiver. It allows you to pack uncompressed PCM audio data using the highly efficient WavPack compression algorithm. discussion in the forum |
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Foobar2000 For Mac
Overview
Foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows 8/7/Vista/XP. It supports a large number of audio file formats including MP3, MP4, AAC, CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND and more with additional components. With it, you can custimize user-interface, organise metadata, files, and folders. In addition, foobar2000 supports for ripping Audio CDs as well as transcoding all supported audio formats using the converter component.
If you just switched to Mac from Windows system, you may also want to run Foobar2000 on your Mac to take care of music playing on Mac, but only disappointed to find that there is actually no Foobar2000 for Mac. In fact, you are only one of those who search for Foobar2000 for Mac or at least a Foobar similar for Mac, or Foobar replacement for Mac or Foobar alterntaive for Mac. TechiSky will introduce several Foobar for Mac alternatives and their shortcomings in the following.
Free Foobar for Mac Sierra/El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks Alternatives
- Cog: Cog is a free OS X music player with lots of audio formats supported such as Ogg, Musepack, Monkeys Audio, Shorten, Musepack. Cog cannot convert CD or audio formats. Though the latest version developed in February, 2009, many OS X Lion users reported it works well in OS X Mountain lion. Some people may find Cog crash on Mountain lion.
- Play: Play from Sbooth is an application for playing and managing audio files. It supports playback of FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio, AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 and various other audio file formats. Sbooth may crash on some Macs running OS X Mountain lion. Play is unable to convert CD or audios. Play processes all audio using 32-bit floating point precision, providing the highest possible playback quality for files sampled at all bit depths.
- Songbird: Songbird is an open sorce audio player for Mac. With it, you can play and manage your music and videos, build playlists, browse, and sort. Then sync your music to your portable music player or phone. Songbird does not support converting audio and CD. It was also reported that it crashes in Mountain Lion. Some people found that Songbird is too slow and too buggy.
- Vox: Vox 0.3 Beta is a FLAC player for Mac OS X which can only play FLAC files.
Commercial Foobar for Mac El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks Alternatives
Foobar For Mac Os X 10.13
- Decibel: Decibel from Sbooth (costs $33) is an audio player tailored to the particular needs of audiophiles. Decibel supports all popular lossless and lossy audio formats including FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey’s Audio, Speex, True Audio, Apple Lossless, AAC, MP3, WAVE and AIFF. Decibel processes all audio using 64-bit floating-point precision, providing the highest possible playback quality for files sampled at all bit depths. Play is unable to convert CD or audios.
- Amarra: Amarra by Sonic Studio integrates with iTunes, or can be used stand-alone importing tracks into a playlist with one click from the Finder or iTunes. It supports for sample rates up to 384 kHz. Amarra costs $189 or more and the licence either requires an iLok USB key or the software is locked to a single computer which can’t be transferred.
- BitPerfect: BitPerfect is an Mac OS X app available on Mac App Store at the price of $9.99. BitPerfect is a simple, easy to use, audiophile grade music player that works with iTunes to deliver the highest possible sound quality.
- Amarra: Amarra by Audiophile Engineering has a main window that looks like a piece of high-end hi-fi gear, but far more classy than that of audirvana, it has the ability to play music directly from iTunes playlists without needing to have iTunes running. Also included are a selection of on-the-fly resampling methods, including iZotope and remote control software for the iPhone and iPod Touch available in the App Store. Amarra costs $19.99.
- Pure Music: Pure Music ($7.99 to buy) by Channel D integrates with iTunes, running in a window alongside and can re-sample music on the fly. Pure Music requires iTunes to be running to select tracks, but offers a considerable slew of other options.
- Swinsian: Swinsian ($19.99 to buy) is designed to entirely replace iTunes, including iDevice sync support. It has, among other features Last.fm integration, watch folders, device sync transcoding rules, a duplicate finder and Airplay support.
TechiSky’s Favor: iTunes is the best free Foobar for Mac (macOS Mojave, Sierra, El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks included)
TechiSky has tried many music players for Mac till he wrote this article and found there is always something missing in the players. Some free audio players crash on Mountain Lion and do not support OS X 10.9 Mavericks or OS X Yosemite 10.10, El Capitan 10.11, macOS 10.12 Sierra or Mojave. The price of commercial audio players for OS X is so high but do not work as expected. So after trying so many OS X audio players, TechiSky found iTunes is still TechiSky’s favor. iTunes may be crap on Windows but is really great on Mac. It’s true iTunes can only play Apple friendly audio formats like MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless ALAC, AIFF, but we can free convert FLAC, APE, CAF, etc to iTunes supported audio. Considering other audio players may mass your music, costs higher than their price lists, unbearable crashes, etc., it’s deserve to convert to use iTunes to manage your music library, especially you have a large music library.
Software to use for convert audio to iTunes supported formats on Mac OS X (Mojave/Sierra/El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks/Mountain Lion included)
To convert CD Audio, WMA, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, WavPack, WAV, AIFF, Musepack, Speex, AU, SND, APE, CAF, etc to iTunes supported MP3, AAC, M4A, AIFF and Apple Lossless ALAC, you can hire the free OS X audio converter MAX or X Lossless Decoder. You can also use professional audio converter like Xilisoft Audio Converter Pro to convert your audio files to iTunes supported formats. Visit TechiSky’s article dBpoweramp for Mac to learn more about best free and professional audio converter for Mac (Mojave/Sierra/El Capitan/Yosemite/Mavericks/Mountain Lion included).