The Best-kept Secret in Mac CD Ripping?
Great news for audiophiles who, like myself, love all-things-Mac — we now have our own ripper with most of the capabilities of “EAC” or “dbPowerAmp.”
And it’s free and open-source!
The product is called XLD (X Lossless Decoder) and boasts the most impressive feature list of anything Mac. You can download it here. If you use it, I heartily suggest that you donate here. You can get free forum support on Hydrogen Audio here.
NEW: This tutorial on ripping is must-read!
XLD’s feature list is so strong that it may put my favorite cover art program (Cover Scout, which has just gone V3) out of business.
I truly wish that I had known about XLD before my recent multi-month rip-fest (1125 CD’s). It’s clearly the best there is on Mac…
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Hi Bob: Will this ripper decode a high rez wav file such as the Reference Records HRX files? Also, since you are decoding to FLAC, what are you using to play the files as I thought that iTunes will not play FLAC files. Peter
Use Max to transcode WAV to FLAC or other format.
I decode to Apple Lossless and play in iTunes, Play, or Songbird.
But if you (understandably) prefer FLAC, you can patch iTunes to handle it. Or use Play or Songbird.
Bob