Is there any music player that plays ALAC m4a?

[musicplanet]

I have tried Pocket Player, Pocket Music, and CorePlayer. But none of them plays ALAC m4a. My previous music device was an iPod, so I have all my CD's encoded into ALAC m4a format. Do I have to transcode them all? Or is there a salvation?

[Rudegar]

ALAC require a lot of juice to play as they are allmost like old wav files
it were always a bit of a silly thing for portable players as no headset would
not be bottleneck compared to 256k/sec
even the ipod touch offical forums are full of ipod owners compalining about skipping when it comes to ALAC

[musicplanet]

I totally agree with you that no portable player + headset is any lossless audio worth. 256Kb should be sufficient enough. But I have a huge collection of ALAC audio files at home, which I rather not convert everytime I want to carry some tunes on my Xperia. My long time portable music player was iPod Touch, hence I had my collection encoded in ALAC. However, I never experienced any skips with my Touch.

[joel2009]

M4a is pretty much all apple and somewhat new... the simplest thing is probably a batch coverter (select the files and let them all convert over night)

Here (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USUS293US303&q=batch+movie+converter+m4a&btnG=Search) is a google search to let you choose one.