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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 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.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 20090320: Feature additions
- Added support for DDP (Disc Description Protocol) files
"DDPMS" files can be opened as a cue sheet.
- Supported reading ISRC from discs
Improvements
- Added "Apply This Item for All Files" context menu in tag editor (for "Edit tags before convert")
- Added option for batch conversion to split file with embedded cue sheet automatically
- Relaxed the limitation of the size of album arts embedded into MP3 files
- Improved support for FLAC metadata (ALBUMARTIST/TRACKTOTAL/DISCTOTAL/COMPILATION)
- Now %y (year) can be used as a filename format indicator
- Added option to control appending BOM to cue sheets
- Added option to force mono encoding in LAME encoder
- XLD now shows a dialog when quitting with active tasks
- Updated libcdio library
- Updated libsndfile library
Bug fixes
- Fixed a problem when embedding a large album art into AAC/ALAC files
- Fixed a problem that Monkey's audio decoder sometimes wrongly detected files
- Fixed a problem that a png image embedded with iTunes wasn't read
- Improved reliability of CD Info.cidb parser
- Improved stability when connecting MusicBrainz server
- Fixed a problem that colon(:) in the folder name was not replaced with the safe one
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3 or later.
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| X Lossless Decoder User Reviews (76 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 26 2009 |
SYSTM From the XDL website: • Fixed a problem when ripping Mixed Mode CD/Enhanced CD This is still not working for me, I cannot rip an enhanced CD. It just hangs at 99.9% on the last track. Hopefully this gets fixed.
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| Jun 21 2009 |
BRUCEANDERSON Yesterday XLD (latest version) crashed. Since then it's been behaving erratically. I deleted the application, the cache and preferences, but it's still behaving weirdly. Sometimes it behaves normally, but sometimes it refuses to encode files I drop on it. Just a few minutes ago, it wouldn't respond to the "OK" button after editing tags. Is there another file I need to delete somewhere? I transcode lots of music, and I have come to rely on XLD - it's simple and (until yesterday) just worked. I'll do a nuke & pave if I have to, but I'd rather not have to go through that process if I can avoid it. Thanks!
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 | May 21 2009 |
ZZZ Worked great in converting .flac to .mp3 with direct placement into iTunes.
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 | May 1 2009 |
BRUCEANDERSON "Added option for batch conversion to split file with embedded cue sheet automatically" OK, how does this work? I've got some FLACs here with embedded cue sheets but I can't figure out how to make XLD see them. Does anyone know? Thanks!
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| Apr 11 2009 |
VOLLARE Overall a great app, but same problem here, can't convert Apple lossless to Lame, only works for the first file I drop, the following ones give an error. What's wrong?
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| Apr 21 2009 |
DOCC I was in more or less the same situation as several others have described here: trouble decoding FLAC files and having XLD hanging on the second file. (At that point my whole system would hang.) This surprised me since XLD has performed flawlessly from the first time I tried it. Removing WindowShade and the APE file it installs fixed all the problems I was having. Those Haxies just don't seem worth the bother.
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| Mar 28 2009 |
DROPS You are right GULLI, I have the same problem on my PPC with Tiger (10.4.11). Apple Lossless can't be re-converted to lame mp3 with XLD, wether I try a batch conversion or drop single files onto XLD, it doesn't work. I think XLD produces (maybe minor) corruption in its Apple Lossless files and therefore can't convert them later to lame. Is there any fast and simple workaround known to get it work in XLD?
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| Mar 21 2009 |
LUCLUV Option-clicking, as suggested by the editor, downloaded a file titled "xld-gui-20090320.tar.bz2.exe". Nothing that a Mac would/could open.
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| Mar 21 2009 |
GULLI Great software, but there is one SERIOUS BUG here: Whenever I try to convert Apple Lossless later to Lame mp3 it just works on the first file in a row, all the following files are skipped with an error. It seems XLD has a problem with Apple Lossless it created. Are these Apple Lossless files somehow corrupted? Flac and everthing else work very well, but I can't use them in iTunes. I would prefer Apple Lossless, but if I can't reencode them later with Lame mp3 for use on my MP3 player (no iPod) it is useless. And iTunes produces very bad mp3s. Where is the bug? Or is it just me? Mac OS 10.4.11 PPC
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| Mar 20 2009 |
FROMAGE-HEAD It will be nice to have a "new folder" button when encoding a CD.
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| Mar 19 2009 |
ANG XLD is a good piece of software but... Freedb inject the tags automaticaly with .cue +ape/flac/mp3... But if you transcode with full album with separated tracks.... OUCH ! Not only that freedb isn't working but also all the existant tags in the source files are deleted in the destination files ! No tags, covers, nothing... Freedb does not work with transcoding?
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