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DESCRIPTION
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]
  • 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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WHAT'S NEW
Version 20100904:
  • Supported genre (%g) in the format of filename field
  • Supported reading/writing copyright and part of a gapless album tags in AAC/ALAC files
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

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Developer:tmkk
Downloads:161,327
  - Version d/l:2,224
Multimedia & Design:Audio
License:Free
Date:03 Sep 2010
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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Sep 4 2010
*****

WOLFEATSWORLD  I have used this program for years. I use it more than any other for converting music files on my Mac. It is sensational - in every way.

The developer(s)? are always working to improve it, and just the other day I knew I had to send in a contribution as I was starting to feel guilty for all the use I get out of it, but never sent in any money to help keep up its development.

(I feel better now ;-)

Thank you will never be enough to express how many times this app has bailed me out of an otherwise unrecoverable situation.

Thanks to everyone (?) involved in bringing this to our platform!  
(Version 20100904)

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Sep 3 2010
*****

EYELESS  Just to say I also think this is a very, very good little program. It is so handy converting to different formats at once. The naming of tracks/album and keeping of info in the original tracks has become better and might well get even better eventually (I hope). Maybe the biggest potential will be in making a more understandable & user friendly UI. Many operations are not very obvious and some settings may be hard to understand for people in general, but essentially it is easy to use.  
(Version 20100904)

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Aug 31 2010
*****

G. I.  Best app for ALAC CD rips or FLAC → ALAC conversions.   
(Version 20100828)

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Aug 30 2010

BRENDAN MCKINLEY  Regarding the developer's comment regarding dropping support for older OSs, as long as PowerPC support stays, I'm fine with it.  
(Version 20100828)

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Aug 29 2010

MULTIMEDIAPIMP  I am never without this app! Thank you for making quality free software!  
(Version 20100828)

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Aug 28 2010

BUMSPINACH  I just wanted to say major thanks to the dev for continuing to make this AWESOME app better and better, I've used it for AGES and it's never failed me. Cheers!  
(Version 20100828)

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Aug 28 2010

MORBIUM  Please DO NOT drop support for Mac OSX 10.4.x!  
(Version 20100828)

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Aug 28 2010

WOLFEATSWORLD  Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
(Version 20100828)

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Aug 20 2010

NEGRITUDE  For anyone who is wondering where the file repository is located, even though the developer's web page is out of date, look here:

http://code.google.com/p/xld/downloads/list  
(Version 20100711)

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Aug 11 2010

CORPSECORPS  Sometimes brilliant; sometimes it chokes.

Typical instance. Wanted to rip a CD to AAC. Every so often the drive would begin revving way up and back down. It took several minutes to detect the pregap on the last couple tracks.

When actually doing the decode, it essentially got stuck on the next to last track, occasionally revving up and down again. I went to bed and when I awoke, it was still only 3/4 the way through the same track. I aborted the rip and tried simply dragging the final tracks from the CD to the folder. Went fine. I listened to those final tracks to make sure they were intact and they were fine.

A help document with this thing is definitely in order.  
(Version 20100711)

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Aug 17 2010

CORPSECORPS  Still trying.

Trouble discs are brand new, yet certain tracks rip with clicks and garbled parts. When I go with full Paranoia, XLD managed to rip a few of them withOUT discernible problems, but on a couple of others, it gets to a certain point in the track and reads indefinitely with no progress, despite retries being set fairly low.  
(Version 20100711)

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Jul 21 2010
*****

SATYRICA  What a great little app! Powerful yet easy to use, and the dev keeps updating it to make it

better and better! KUDOS!  
(Version 20100711)

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