Help with Playing FLAC files


Okay, got my DAcMagic going no problem; works and sounds great. Took about two minutes to comnect it to my Macbook Pro. (Gotto love Apple!)

Went to HD Tracks.com and downloaded some hi-res music, but these are FLAC and iTunes doesn't like them. What's the best software to convert these so that iTunes will let me play them?
stickman451
You can also use Audirvana which plays FLAC directly without conversion and it sounds much better than iTunes.
Cog will play flac, not sure about HD encoded files.

http://cogx.org/download.php

I also used MAX and converted some flac file to apple lossless.
Funny thing is, iTunes USED to play flac files, back in the day. Then around version 4.something, they stopped playing them. Bye bye itunes...
XLD works well. I can't use Audirvana; it wants OSX 10.6 and my Macbook is running 10.5.8.

I downloaded Fidelia and my initial impression is that it sounds better than iTunes playing the FLAC files directly rather than using XLD to convert to Aiff...

BTW, what cable is most highly recommended for connecting the Mac to the DacMagic? At the moment I'm using the supplied usb but I think a mini-rca to TosLink would probably be better??? Is there such a thing as a mini-rca to coaxial???