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X Lossless Decoder
X Lossless Decoder 20120407
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X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding.

XLD supports the following formats:
  • (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg)
  • Monkey's Audio (.ape)
  • Wavpack (.wv)
  • TTA (.tta)
  • Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 and later]
  • TAK (.tak) [Requires Wine]
  • Shorten (.shn) [SHN v3 only]
  • AIFF, WAV, etc
Other formats supported by Libsndfile are also decodable. XLD uses not decoder frontend but library to decode, so no
What's New
Version 20120407:
  • Allowed bit depth selection in the ALAC output plugin
  • Better wine support in the TAK decoder plugin
  • Now CrossOver Mac is supported as an alternative of wine.
  • Suppoted "REM COMPILATION" line in cue sheets
  • Fixed a problem when exporting cue sheet from non-44100Hz tracks
  • Fixed a crash when writing lyrics tag to MP3 files
  • Updated LAME to version 3.99.5
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later



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X Lossless Decoder User Discussion (Write a Review)
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+1

CanaryEGP reviewed on 21 May 2012
The best for ripping your music. Very complete and easy to use.
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anasazi4st reviewed on 15 May 2012
I had an old CD given to me years ago containing two files, one with an .APE extension, one with a .CUE one. Remembering that XLD did those files, I launched it, read the online documentation and opened the CUE file, configured XLD's Preferences...and a short time later, I had some music, already separated into tracks ad tagged!

I thought I was going to have to use something like All2MP3, then load it into Audacity to cut it into tracks (it came out as one big mp3 when I first tried opening it with All2MP3).

@Albabe--I had the same problem. It did 14 tracks, and would not process tracks 15-22, even they were the only ones checkmarked. Downloading the newer version here (#20120407) fixed that issue.
[Version 20120407]


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June8 reviewed on 11 May 2012
Fast, powerful and full of options. Thanks!
[Version 20120407]


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Sir-Sixty-Nine reviewed on 30 Apr 2012
dis is the best thing for flac or other lossless to Apple Lossless.
[Version 20120407]


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Dmitry Novikov reviewed on 23 Apr 2012
Thank you for freeware!
Thank you for supporting folder structure!
I wish maybe more user friendly interface and DMG installation file.
[Version 20120407]


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ergohack reviewed on 20 Apr 2012
this makes great rips so easy that I even use it via a virtual machine on my Windows system.
[Version 20120407]


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+4

Milmascaras reviewed on 10 Apr 2012
Nice update to ALAC bit depth setting, etc. Still best choice for handling cue sheets for me. Thank You for keeping this app so useful and vital!
[Version 20120407]


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+12
808armada commented on 07 Apr 2012
This newest verion : xld-gui-20120407 does not launch for me. Is anyone else having this problem?
[Version 20120407]

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+7
Lvalue replied on 09 Apr 2012
In my case, updating from inside the app hosed my installation; deleting and re-downloading the app solved my problem. You might want to try it if it's the case with you too.
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diannao replied on 09 Apr 2012
I had a similar problem and solved it the way Lvalue suggests.
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Gordon1949 reviewed on 18 Mar 2012
I am a total neophyte to MP3.

Can you tell me, will this work with a new Sandisk Sansa Fuze +? It supports FLAC but I do not believe Ogg FLAC.

Thank you for your help. Gordon
[Version 20120226]


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Albabe commented on 01 Mar 2012
This is a very good client... except for transcoding bin & cue to lossy.

About half the times I use it for this, XLD transcodes about half of the tracks and then gives me the remaining tracks as empty little files (0 K).

If you have these problems, try Max. It works better for me.
[Version 20120226]


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ReelDeal had trouble on 29 Dec 2011
I just downloaded this software. This is the first time I've needed to rips CDs to flac since switching from PC to Mac. The problem I'm having is that no information comes up for the CD I'm attempting to rip. (It is Trace Adkins' Greatest Hits, so nothing obscure.) It just says "Audio CD". In my zeal to avoid using ITunes, I must have disabled some setting that gives information. Can anyone help my out? ... Thanks!
[Version 20111214]


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smallpoxxx had trouble on 28 Nov 2011
Sorry, did put this wrong twice (Reviews and comments), but
i still need an answer....

must do something totally wrong ?
Ok, Mac is quite new to me, but has this problem - unpacked and copied XLD.app to Applications.... The only thing i`m able to perform, is dragging a file to the XLD-icon, and the file is put to Flac in a desired folder !
I do see no pane for diff. choices, no windows, no nothing else than this icon to drop a file upon ????
Tried to uninstall/install once again, same result - any hints ?
Tried to unzip with an other unzip-app, nothing has helped so far ?
[Version 20111113]
[Version 20111113]


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sewolawen73 had trouble on 26 Sep 2011
Just upgraded to this latest version 2011-09-24 and for some reason it keeps stalling and freezing. I'm using Mac 10.4 and it's never given me problems before when upgrading. Anyone else have this problem right now?
[Version 20110924]


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GuerillaTech had trouble on 01 Sep 2011
Love this program, but i've been having problems with it recently.
I've converted a file from FLAC to AIFF but it won't add the album artwork to its icon, its only visible in iTunes.

I'm currently on 10.7.1 if that helps. I deleted all the files related to XLD in case its just a corrupt preference or something, but i deleted the app itself too!

Does anyone know of a mirror to download this app since google can't find it right now?
[Version 20110821]

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GuerillaTech replied on 01 Sep 2011
can download it again, but my previous problem still exists.
...either a problem with Lion or XLD.
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Lazyjunk had trouble on 06 Aug 2011
I'm trying to use a CUE sheet and split a single MP3 into multiple files, losslessly... is this possible? It looks like the program re-converts all of the files on the fly instead of doing a lossless split.
[Version 20110703]

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Zyx211 replied on 02 Oct 2011
I'm trying to achieve the same, but as you mention the program seems to re-encoding the files causing lower quality output files. I was using MP3 Splitter until recently, but unfortunately this program is no longer supported and does not work on Mac OS X Lion anymore. I'm still looking for a program that can split an MP3 file with a cue without re-encoding.
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J_R had trouble on 03 May 2011
When converting FLAC to ALAC, XLD is taking the 24 bit/96 kHz FLAC files and converting them to 32 bit/30464 Hz.

In the Preferences, I changed the option of the Output Format to "Same as original", and then tried to set it at 96000 Hz, but it still converts them to 30464 Hz.

What am I doing wrong?
[Version 20110502]


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-8
Tiger15 had trouble on 28 Feb 2011
I am so sorry for the previous review, I should have post a troubleshooting like this one.

However I still have this problem, can't convert m4a to mp3, nothing happen after I set everything up.

Cue to m4a and cue to mp3 are perfect.
[Version 20110226]


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+35
Dorkypants had trouble on 11 Feb 2011
The download link still downloads the 20101212 version. In addition, the developer's site says the latest version is 20101212. What makes MacUpdate think there's a 20110212 version available?
[Version 20110212]


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+26
Mruben had trouble on 07 Nov 2010
Fantastic program in all respects.

One question, though - the "check for updates" and auto-update feature seems to be broken in the last couple of releases. Anyone else seeing this?
[Version 20101107]

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cottinghamk replied on 07 Nov 2010
Certain things break it (he lists the old ClickToFlash plugin, for example). I _thought_ that was fixed, though.
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+26
Mruben replied on 20 Nov 2010
Nope, still not fixed. I use Click2Flash, but the Safari extension, not the old plugin.
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Inquiringminds had trouble on 01 Nov 2010
I don't know whats going on but the latest GUI version (20101031) does not launch on Mac OS X 10.5.8 PPC. Neither did the version before it for that matter. Permissions repaired, etc. No love.
[Version 20101031]




abn0rmal.pdx rated on 18 May 2012

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Graby rated on 07 May 2012

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TripHHH rated on 01 May 2012

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marcocaccin rated on 30 Apr 2012

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Altisssimo rated on 25 Apr 2012

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Avinator rated on 22 Apr 2012

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Muscarto rated on 11 Apr 2012

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DirkTheMenace rated on 08 Apr 2012

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Widber rated on 07 Apr 2012

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Filmmakerguy rated on 23 Mar 2012

[Version 20120226]


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X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding.

XLD supports the following formats:
  • (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg)
  • Monkey's Audio (.ape)
  • Wavpack (.wv)
  • TTA (.tta)
  • Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 and later]
  • TAK (.tak) [Requires Wine]
  • Shorten (.shn) [SHN v3 only]
  • AIFF, WAV, etc
Other formats supported by Libsndfile are also decodable. XLD uses not decoder frontend but library to decode, so no intermediate files are generated. All of the supported formats can be directly split with the cue sheet. XLD also supports so-called 'embedded' or 'internal' cue sheet.

Currently you can choose output format from WAVE,AIFF and Raw PCM. In addition, you can choose Ogg Vorbis (aoTuV), MPEG-4 AAC (QuickTime/CoreAudio), MP3 (LAME), Apple Lossless and FLAC in the GUI version.
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