Best player for iPhone, pad

Is Apple lossless EAC format?
What soft will convert any to Apple Lossless?
THANKS for input

I'm not sure I understand the source of your files. If it is iPhone or iPod then I use a impure 20 dock to transfer lossless from my iPod to my stereo from Toslink or coaxial digital or even analog. Would this help?

I use XLD on Mac to rip my CDs to AIFF. XLD can also rip to WAV and Apple Lossless (runs a compressed lossless algorithm like FLAC).

XLD works similarly to EAC which does error correction and checks against an online database.

I tried connecting the iPad to my DAC (Auralic Vega) using the USB camera kit. A message pops up saying the iPad cannot use the DAC because it requires too much power. The DAC, interestingly, locked on to the 44.1khz signal. I was scared to hit play thinking it may damage something. Did I miss doing something? Has anybody tried this setup?

As an alternative get yourself a HRT Istreamer dac and you'll have no isses