X Lossless Decoder Reviews and details

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• Bandcamp support is faltering – maybe you should download your music now

  It supports ALAC. There’s a handy app called XLD (X Lossless Decoder) that will convert from FLAC to ALAC (and probably back) in a couple clicks if you need it. Lossless means I don’t really need to care whether my music is in an equivalent format, but I will admit it’s a bit silly. https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Audio encoding question

  I would be surprised if XLD cannot do what you want. Source: 10 months ago

• This error keeps showing up when I try to import a CD. Any reason for that or any advice?

  Please ignore the misinformation in this thread about CDs being too old to be ripped, and download XLD and follow this guide. Source: 10 months ago

• What is your favorite mac app that you just discover in first half of 2023?

  I don't have any OPUS files, but personally, I'm fine with MP3s, so typically, I just run songs through XLD. Source: 10 months ago

• Moving CDs to ext. HD on Studio

  Take a look at XLD, it supports lossless formats (flac, alac, wav, aiff) as well as standard compressed formats. It also checks online services for metadata and album art. I ripped a ton of CDs with it. Source: 10 months ago

• Program to automatically identify music file, download album art and lyrics? Ripping tons of CDs to my iPod lately. Recently got Cochlear Implant and training my brain to recognize sounds and musics now.

  Mac or PC? X Lossless Decoder and Exact Audio Copy both have native metadata support. Source: 11 months ago

• Woman explains how designer brands are for morons who don't know how to manage their money.

  Of course not all programs benefit from these new APIs, and for cases like that devs can easily support very old versions of macOS. My favorite example of this is the open source audio converter utility XLD, which is still updated regularly and has support all the way back to OS X 10.4 (released in 2005!). Most programs aren’t like this though. Source: 12 months ago

• Anyway to extract files from .bin and .cue files that originally came from an old CD?

  You can convert them into other formats using Max or XLD. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ripping using AM on Mac, hung up on a scratch

  I’ve been using xld for a while, maybe give it shot… https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html. Source: about 1 year ago

• Apple Music Lossless: What Devices are Supported?

  Many of my other albums are ALAC files ripped from CDs (via XLD). In previous versions of the Music app (and definitely in iTunes), that tidbit (that it was ripped via XLD) did appear in the metadata. Makes me wonder whether that is preventing some of those files from "matching" correctly. Source: about 1 year ago

• What are your favourite apps?

  Doppler - Local music player which replaces Spotify and Apple Music. Better UI, more privacy friendly, many formats work (and if they don't, run it through XLD), etc. Source: about 1 year ago

• Best way or app to batch convert FLACs to AIFFs or WAVs?

  XLD is a solid open source option. It also preserves all metadata and/or will search your online db of choice to fill in the gaps. I've been using it for years and really enjoy it. Source: about 1 year ago

• How do you listen to you music from YT-DL?

  For example, mp3 opens directly to iTunes, etc. And formats that is not compatible with Apple music Hazel will send it to XLD or use FFmpeg to convert it so Apple music can read it. Source: about 1 year ago

• Some newbie questions

  I was able to convert the FLAC format to Apple Lossless using XLD to get them imported into the Music app and synced to my phone. Source: about 1 year ago

• Free software for batch converting files

  XLD™ is free, and this is basically what it is for: Transcoding audio files. It only handles lossless formats, though it handles a long list of them:. Source: about 1 year ago

• Converting FLAC/WAV to mp3?

  XLD (MacOS only) is freeware and can convert between all major audio formats. Whatever you use make sure to produce high quality MP3s (320/44.1./16bit/CBR). Not every conversion to MP3 will sound the same, (aka mp3 encoders). Quality wise I like the MP3s that iTunes produces most, but iTunes can't convert from FLAC. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to rip audio CDs 2022 – with drive accuracy listing

  X Lossless Decoder is a good alternative for the Mac – and perhaps the only app that runs natively on PowerPC, Intel and ARM! https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Can someone help me with my settings/ preferences for XLD?

  Look at the syntax: https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html, you don't have many options to screw up unless you explcitly order to resample etc. Source: over 1 year ago

• TinyClock – a tiny true 5-arch universal Mac OS X single-binary GUI application

  A much more impressive universal macOS application is X Lossless Decoder (XLD), which you can run natively on PowerPC (32), Intel (32/64) and ARM (64). https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• How the FLAC format compresses audio without loss of quality

  I wish apple supported FLAC. There’s an amazing free tool to convert to/from ALAC (https://tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.html), but still: some players only support FLAC and some ALAC and sometimes you can’t transfer songs in either format because of the no overlap between source/target. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• PSA: Putting FLAC files in "Automatically Add To Music" will DELETE them, because Apple Music doesn't think they are music files

  If you want lossless in your Apple Music library, I suggest using a tool like XLD to batch convert to ALAC format. Source: over 1 year ago