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Use something like Goldwave, Audacity or even Winamp's disk writer plugin to output to wave, aiff or another common uncompressed format. Import that into iTunes and re-encode into Apple Lossless. It's a format iTunes and your iPod support natively, no DRM and QuickTime Pro will transcode into whatever you'd like. Ta-da. No compression or signal loss in the chain.
The whole deal with Apple's media tools is that it's an ecosystem. Use their specs and it's painless. Avoid their DRM and it's totally painless. Bring in something external and it's painful. However there are QuickTime pluggins for flac on the Mac.
The whole deal with Apple's media tools is that it's an ecosystem. Use their specs and it's painless. Avoid their DRM and it's totally painless. Bring in something external and it's painful. However there are QuickTime pluggins for flac on the Mac.