 | Nov 8 2009 |
DAVE BROCK Very clean, elegant, fast and reliable. A beautiful and extremely useful little app. Many thanks to the developers!
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 | Oct 3 2009 |
SWORDFISH Since I upgraded to Snow Leopard, the AAC encoder is giving me files twice as big with True VBR Q90 mode. Anyone have an idea why?
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 | Nov 7 2009 |
R33C3 In what this program? Or another Try dropping the bitrate a little.
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| Oct 2 2009 |
GARYI Getting some funky crash situations with latest build, seems to take safari with it for some reason Otherwise super app.
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| Sep 25 2009 |
ILIKETRASH What is so great about this? There are no options to set bit depth or sampling rate on most of the formats where that makes sense. Also, there is no option to set floating point where that makes sense, and there is no raw floating point format at all.
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| Sep 4 2009 |
DR. GIRLFRIEND Best of the Best. When people who are new to Macs ask me about essential Mac apps, XLD is always at the top of my list. Stable, easy to use, and free. You can't get better than that. If you're not satisfied with just playing .mp3s, you need this app. It's awesome. Tested and working fine in Snow Leopard.
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| Aug 30 2009 |
HARRY G. YES. Simply the best and most mac-like audio-converter I have tried so far. Excellent work!
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| Aug 28 2009 |
AARGL Simply the best! Ever! ;-)
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| Aug 26 2009 |
MARKOH Version 20090827a: Supported the new HE-AAC encoder in Snow Leopard To use, check "Encode with HE-AAC" checkbox in the option dialog of MPEG-4 AAC encoder. In HE-AAC encoder, true VBR is not available and available bitrate is limited (24-80kbps). Fixed a small problem in CD info.cidb parser Updated internal drive offset database
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| Aug 25 2009 |
MARKOH Version 20090824a (109.2) is available via XLD update
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| Aug 19 2009 |
DUKERAUL Trying to find a reliable flac to mp3 converter was a pain and when reading the reviews on yet another crap converter someone mentioned XLD. The lack of a GUI is weird but it worked like a charm. Be sure to go into the preferences and choose MP3 as the output. I really like the importing directly into iTunes. Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you!
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| 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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| Mar 19 2009 |
OVERLOOK hang encoding ogg files to mp3
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| Mar 12 2009 |
TYLERINHIFI Great program. One problem though. Enhanced CD's will not finish ripping the final track. All other CD's rip without fail, but enhanced CD's stall at about the 99% point of the test. Cancelling the test run gives the same result in the actual rip. It goes to 99% and stalls. No errors, no crashes, just continues chugging along at 0.0x speed. I can rip the tracks just fine with iTunes, but I'd prefer not to.
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| Feb 24 2009 |
DAN33185 One of the reasons I loved this app was the ability to convert FLAC to MP3, but that seems to be gone now. Please bring it back, I have downgraded to the 9/14 version, which seems to be the last one to support MP3.
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 | Mar 20 2009 |
Well, I did a little testing, and it looks like if you run XLD through XSlimmer, it will remove LAME MP3 completely. Avoid using XSlimmer on XLD.
(Version 20090320) | |
| Mar 20 2009 |
ALGOS Are you sure? I've just slimmed today's XLD release with Xslimmer and it exports to MP3 just fine...
(Version 20090320) | |
| Feb 17 2009 |
ANOMIA I am happy to report, that for me, I no longer am experiencing the faulty first file ripping error. 20090215 seems to have fixed this annoyance. Thanks again!!!
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| Feb 16 2009 |
SHALAKO Errors on first item in batch; can't decode just one.
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| Feb 4 2009 |
ANOMIA This is still my favourite mac ripper/sound file app; however, I have gone back to version 20080818 because of difficulties with the first track not being completely processed, while all others are fine. This occurred with all subsequent versions of the app at one point or another until I finally settled back on version 20080818, where it has never happened. The incomplete file process would consistently happen with mp3 rips. Not sure if other processes were consistently affected by this 'bug'. I don't know if it is only my computer, as others to my knowledge haven't complained about it. I haven't seen an update in a while, I do hope this can be checked, and the newer version fix finally this problem for me(if it isn't my fault somehow). [2.16 INTEL Core2Duo 10.4.11] Thanks for a great piece of free software!
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| Dec 16 2008 |
CORPSECORPS Can't get this to consistently detect which audio CD is in the drive. First couple discs in the session, it worked fine. Next time it just said "Audio CD" and located no CD name, track names, or other tag info. I fiddled around with refresh and restarting it and it eventually retrieved the data. Next time around that didn't work either. If the drawer is open, it says "Audio CD not detected" in the menu. Once i close the drawer, it says "Audio CD", but never does get the information. Common CD's that have been around for quite some time so it's unlikely it's not in the database. The one i eventually got it to recognize was same artist, consecutive year.
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| Nov 21 2008 |
CORPSECORPS Would be nice if this would put the LAME (or whatever) parameter information in the track's ID3 comment field, or at least show it to you somewhere.
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| Oct 2 2008 |
FAITHPUPPETEE I love the application, but my only complaint is that it will consistently stall while ripping a handful of brand-new discs or discs that are in mint condition with no explanation.
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| Oct 2 2008 |
TANTPIS Simply the best ! What a powerful software ! I finally found the Mac equivalent of Exact Audio Copy for Windows ! After 5 years of using EAC, I was desperate to find a powerful and complete CD Ripper for Mac OS X. Definitely forget iTunes if you need a really powerful tool for ripping CD's with a maximum of options, security, reporting and audio formats. All the best functions are included in X Lossless Decoder (optical drive test runs, ultra secure audio extraction, all the best lossy and lossless audio formats like Lame MP3 3.98, AAC or FLAC, Multi-Format Output, detailed information about errors encountered...) In addition, the interface is simple, complete and comprehensive ! Bravo !
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| Sep 30 2008 |
TUFTY State of the art CD ripping on the Mac, it's as simple as that. When you want to be sure you got a good rip, XLD gives you AcurateRip, Test runs (to compare checksums) and detailed information about errors encountered. It's a good audio conversion tool too, though Max might have the edge for flexibility and format support on that front. Kudos to the developer, who has been working very hard on this over the last few weeks.
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| Sep 26 2008 |
PAWLYSHYN I'm not able to download this program -- I just get a file full of code. Am I doing something wrong?
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| Sep 29 2008 |
VERYCARLA Sound like your browser is confused, and is trying to display the file as if it were a web page. Right-click on the download link and choose "Save Link As..." and then you should be OK.
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| Sep 30 2008 |
PAWLYSHYN Thanks for the reply, Verycarla. I was able to download something, but I can't do anything with it. Instead of getting an application, there's just a file called Terminal, which opens up a lot of code. Where did I go wrong?
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| Dec 16 2008 |
LARAINE Try Firefox. When it's downloaded just double click on it to unarchive it and "Bob's your uncle". Unfortunately, it wasn't what I was looking for. I want to rip audio from a DVD and I want it in AIFF not MP3. Back to the drawing board. *sigh*
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| Sep 6 2008 |
FAITHPUPPETEE Lists jitter errors for individual tracks, but then claims that the whole rip had no errors occur? Am I missing something or does the program's final verdict in regards to a rip contradict its assessment of the quality of individual tracks? Or am I just missing something?
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| Sep 6 2008 |
TIAGO Yes, you're missing something... Jitter errors are consider correctable and, as such, you can get a rip with "no errors" even when the log shows some jitter errors, dropped bytes or duplicated bytes... The "serious" errors are the ones listed as "Read errors" and "Skipped"... Everything else is considered correctable... To be on the safe side, enable "Verify suspicious sectors" and "Test before copy"...
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| Sep 6 2008 |
FAITHPUPPETEE I have enabled both, but with the albums I tested the errors remained the same even after those extra precautions. I take it then, that if the final verdict is that 'No Errors Occurred' that I have come away with a rip worth holding on to? That is to say, I have ripped the same CD without the precautions you mentioned and with them and received virtually identical results in both cases. CRC32 hash (skip zero) : FEB953F2 Skipped (treated as error) : 0 Edge jitter error (maybe fixed) : 1 Atom jitter error (maybe fixed) : 1 Drift error (maybe fixed) : 0 Dropped bytes error (maybe fixed) : 0 Duplicated bytes error (maybe fixed) : 0 Inconsistency in error sectors : 0" I received the above entry for the same track with the options you mentioned off and also while they were on. I take it that the track should be fine given that there are no Read/Skipped error entries? I performed a few rips with error values as high as 5-8 (Not skipped/read errors) which were ultimately listed as 'No Errors Occurred.' Would that be of acceptable quality? Thanks for the help!
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| Sep 6 2008 |
TIAGO This rip seems to be fine... The errors reported are correctable... Note that I'm saying correctable and not corrected... Even the log will only tell you that those errors were "maybe fixed". How can you be sure or at least less unsure? LOL 1. Apparently you have not enabled AccurateRip... Any reason for that? Even if most of your CDs are not in their database, there's absolutely no downside in keeping it on... If it's on and the CD is in their database, there's a high chance you'll have a confirmation that the rip is good... It's not 100% fool proof, since you can have a different pressing of the album, among other things... 2. In this example, the rip has no "test before copy". Although it doubles the time needed for conversion, I prefer to keep it enabled, at least in discs with lots of scratches... Why? Because with it enabled you get a redundancy check of the CRC for the track... If there's a match in the CRC of the test pass and the copy pass, there's a high chance that the rip is ok. If there's a mismatch, on the other hand, something is wrong. The good thing is that you'll be able to easily spot those situations... 3. Also, if you already ripped this CD several times, check the CRCs... If they were always the same, it's very likely that you got a good rip...
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| Sep 6 2008 |
FAITHPUPPETEE What do you mean by CRCs? Also, these are the settings as I've had them for the past several rips: http://i190.photobucket.com/albums/z223/Arsis1/Picture1.jpg For some reason, the check against accurate rip is basically never mentioned, although that may be because the albums I am ripping simply aren't in their database, right? Also, the rips in which I enabled test before copy had nearly identical error sets (there shouldn't be an issue with scratches either, I buy CDs new and I'm pretty neurotic about storing and using them to avoid any damage). Thanks again!
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| Sep 6 2008 |
Your settings are correct... I prefer to keep the "test before copy" enabled, but that's a personal preference... You're free to disable it, but understand that this is one of those things you'll only value when you need it (like a car insurance, for example). Most of the time, test before copy serves only to double the time it takes to complete a rip, but when it catches something you would miss otherwise, then you'll value it... Since it's impossible to predict when will this happen, I find it better to keep it enabled all the time... You're using the latest version... I haven't ripped anything with this version, but here's how the log looks like WITH AccurateRip verification enabled (this is a log from the "latest previous version")... CRC32 hash (test run) : AE951E42 CRC32 hash (skip zero) : 4251AC7B AccurateRip signature : 49ADBB06 ->Rip may not be accurate. Skipped (treated as error) : 0 Edge jitter error (maybe fixed) : 0 Atom jitter error (maybe fixed) : 0 Dropped bytes error (maybe fixed) : 0 Duplicated bytes error (maybe fixed) : 0 Inconsistency in error sectors : 0 With a log like this, you can see: 1. That the test and copy CRCs are the same (AE951E42)... This is good... Without getting into complex details, a CRC is like a "digital signature" for the file... If you have two files with matching signatures, you can be 99.99999999% sure that you have identical files... This is what you want when ripping with test and copy, since if you're able to perform two different rips of a track (1 for test + 1 for copy) and end up with exactly the same result, it's very likely that the rip is successful... 2. The "->Rip may not be accurate." message was presented because this particular rip was not present in AccurateRip database... In the latest version, there is a preference to determine how such scenarios would be reported in the log... Unfortunately, I'm not at my home computer so I cannot perform one rip ATM, to see how the report changed... Just by curiosity, but your "Read sample offset correction value: 48"... Make sure that "48" is the correct value for your particular drive... I'm only saying this because maybe you copied the settings from some tutorial and this is one setting that's specific for your drive model...
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| Sep 6 2008 |
FAITHPUPPETEE The rip offset value I have was taken from the AccurateRip database listing for my drive: OPTIARC DVD RW AD-5630A, so I'm hoping that is correct. I suppose I could try and re-rip things with the test before copy feature enabled, but I have done a few runs on different albums with the same settings (minus that one) and received similar results. There have been a couple instances where I ripped a disc to mp3 and FLAC where I received errors (not Skip or Read errors) that differed slightly, but from what you've said it sounds as though those errors aren't critical or really an issue. I have the AccurateRip setting configured that way so that it'll check it without giving me an error/warning when the disc isn't in the database (as I think most of what I listen to wouldn't be). Though, I suppose most of the rips should be fine as I know the source discs are in great shape, I could take the time to test any used discs I pick up though. It seems like most of the Edge/Atom jitters are noncritical errors that can be corrected though, right?
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| Sep 6 2008 |
FAITHPUPPETEE I'll do a test rip of Spawn of Possession's Cabinet album to .FLAC real quick with test before copy enabled and post the log, perhaps that'll help. Cheers!
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| Sep 6 2008 |
FAITHPUPPETEE It seems to be working! CRC32 hash (test run): FA31FA6A CRC32 hash (skip zero) : A4341E25 Skipped (treated as error): 0 Edge jitter error (maybe fixed): 0 Atom jitter error (maybe fixed): 0 Drift error (maybe fixed): 0 Dropped bytes error (maybe fixed): 0 Duplicated bytes error (maybe fixed): 0 Inconsistency in error sectors: 0
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| Sep 6 2008 |
TIAGO This rip is perfect, no question about it... I still find it strange that the log makes absolutely no mention of AccurateRip... Anyway, if you have more questions or simply want to learn more about audio ripping, check the Hydrogen Audio forums: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org
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| Sep 7 2008 |
FAITHPUPPETEE I performed a rip on another CD and received the following result for a few different rips of said CD: CRC32 hash (test run) : F5CD1475 ->Rip may not be accurate. CRC32 hash (skip zero) : EC7D68F9 Skipped (treated as error) : 0 Edge jitter error (maybe fixed) : 1 Atom jitter error (maybe fixed) : 0 Drift error (maybe fixed) : 0 Dropped bytes error (maybe fixed) : 0 Duplicated bytes error (maybe fixed) : 0 Inconsistency in error sectors: 0 Some inconsistencies found Is there any way to correct this? Also, I have registered for the HydrogenAudio forums, but I apparently have to wait five or so days to post. Thanks again!
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| Sep 8 2008 |
TIAGO Is there any way to correct this? You have mismatching CRCs in the test and in the copy run... Why? I can't know for sure, but you can try cleaning the disc surface very thoroughly and trying to rip again... Maybe that will help, or maybe not... Maybe there is a physical defect in the disc surface or maybe the CD is copy protected (those are a bitch to rip properly)... In essence, what you want is the same CRC for both runs... You should keep trying until you do so... If it's only one track that's giving you a hard time, feel free to rip it alone, to speed things up... One more thing, and this is my personal opinion: I'm not sure if you have the checkbox for "Treat AccurateRip mismatch as an inconsistency in log" checked or not, but I prefer to have it unchecked... Bottom line: if you have a different pressing from the one on AccurateRip database, you'll receive the "Some inconsistencies found" message at the end of the log, even if your rip is perfect... That can give you a misleading impression that something is wrong, when it's not...
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 | Sep 4 2008 |
TMKK To someone: DO NOT post the update information of the unofficial beta version. The official latest version of XLD is 20080822.
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| Sep 4 2008 |
MACUPDATE ADMIN I launched XLD and it told me a new version is available, it said nothing about it being unofficial or a beta, it simply stated it was version 20080905 and displayed a changelist.
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| Sep 5 2008 |
TMKK Yes, but XLD is now in heavy development progress, and the function is changing day by day. I do not want to release broadly until my development gets settled.
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| Sep 4 2008 |
VERYCARLA XLD has actually been updated several times since this version was released, most recently today. It seems Sparkle has enabled the developer to work more quickly than MU can follow. :)
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| Aug 30 2008 |
NOTARYSOJAC XLD seems very powerful and I like its support of the unending range of audio formats the PC folks seem intent on producing. The Help content seems rather sparse. There are some odd things about XLD: - Manually selecting the cuesheet encoding is bizarre, and you have to be sure you set it right or all you get is white-noise. The trick I just figured out is to open the .cue file in TextEdit, then select Save As. In the Save dialogue it will display the file's text encoding in case you want to change it. This took me three hours to figure out this afternoon and I have not started any Labour Day imbibing yet... - Regarding the file-open dialogue: are we supposed to know to set the bit-rate, endian-ness, etc of a file as we open it?
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| Aug 21 2008 |
ALGOS Yay, Sparkle updating! Thanks for adding this final icing on the cake ;)
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| Aug 18 2008 |
to get Lame V0 just put the "Target Quality slider to the right (260 kbps) till you see 0.0... But shouldn't there be a "Very high/insane (-q 0)" at the Overall Quality popup-menu??? Don't know LAME is a bit confusing, maybe the developer will answer this here for all his users. By the way: for my ears (using good AKG- or Sennheiser-headphones) Lame VBR new, High (-q2), -V 0.0 - which gives files with around 180-220 kbps - sounds as good as 256 kbps AAC or 320 kbps CBR, - but gives much smaller filesizes. | |
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| Aug 18 2008 |
ECHOROB -q 2 is the highest setting. It's advised not to use q 0 i don't know why though a trip to the hydrogenAudio forums would answer that. http://www.hydrogenaudio.org Thanks for you help :D
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| Aug 18 2008 |
CALIGULA Didn't knew that, thank you EchoRob. to read at hydrogenaudio.org ;-) Anyway I don't need -q 0, will stay with -q 2, sounds great (...enough for me)
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| Aug 18 2008 |
ECHOROB Yea V0 to me perfect enough I have an extremely expensive hi FI set up and im perfectly happy with Lame V0 i don't see the point of going lossless you just don't get an benefits. V0 is pretty much transparent 100%.
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| Aug 20 2008 |
MDEWAKANTON Here's why -q 0 is not recommended: "-q 2: recommended. Same as -h. -q 0 and -q 1 are slow and may not produce significantly higher quality" from http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/lame/lame/USAGE
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| Aug 20 2008 |
MDEWAKANTON Sorry, can't edit post. @ Caligula: referring to "insane" you have in mind, I assume, the CBR encoding mode. If you choose this mode from dropdown menu under Prefs. > LAME, you can rip at 320 kbps. Not in VBR mode though.
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| Aug 21 2008 |
CALIGULA Thank you, mdewakanton!
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| Aug 18 2008 |
MDEWAKANTON This is simply great! always loved XLD, love new features too. Thanks a lot for updating relentlessly
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| Aug 18 2008 |
ALGOS I absolutely love XLD, the only thing I could wish for with pretty frequent updates is Sparkle.
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| Aug 18 2008 |
FROMAGE-HEAD I'll second that
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| Aug 16 2008 |
ECHOROB How do we select Lame V0 Thanks :D
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| Jul 17 2008 |
MOZART & HAENDEL 2 Forget my yesterdays comment, Somehow my preferences where corrupted, after a quick response from the developer, telling me that V 0 in fact IS implemented, I trashed "jp.tmkk.XLD.plist" and everything works as expected now. Again may thanks for XLD
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| Jul 16 2008 |
MOZART & HAENDEL Very good work, Mr. Developer, many thanks to you for XLD. Why are there restrictions in the LAME-encoder of XLD? XLD dont let us use the VBR setting -V 0 --vbr-new or -V 1 --vbr-new, only V 2 is the maximum in XLD, why that? If you use V 0 you get nearly (exact) the quality of CBR 320 but with V 0 the filesize is reduced to 60 % of a CBR 320 file. I know, on most audio files you cant hear a difference between VBR 0 or VBR 2, but if you listen to electronic or classic musique, there are sometimes ringings or other distortions in VBR 2 files, that are gone if you encode with VNR 0 or VBR 1. On most tracks VBR 0 or 1 files are only around 1 MB bigger than VBR 2 files, so thats not that hard. And XLDs defined maximum, CBR 320, will highly increase the filesize compared to VBR 1 or 0, which all sounds equal - and all sounds better than VBR 2 on difficult parts of classic musique. On >http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=LAME
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| Jul 8 2008 |
ANOMIA As I've said before this is the most indispensable lossless music app for the mac out there; and it's free! I have a small suggestion to make however; if files could be processed and numbered sequentially with a preceding zero, that option would be icing on the cake... thanks
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| Jun 14 2008 |
COMPAGNODIMERENDE Best app ever for people who like lossless formats. Free and constantly updated.
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| May 12 2008 |
THEBATTMAN Seems like a pretty good app. The description claims that it supports m4a (under OS 10.4), but I cannot get it to open such files. These are NOT iTunes purchased, but ripped from my own CD's.
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| May 9 2008 |
XYPHER Didn't know this had support for Multi-Core. Awesome! Of course my favourite feature is PCM extraction. Such a time saver.
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| May 7 2008 |
ECHRO This is a really FAST app and easy to use
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| May 3 2008 |
DOUG S. This app converts video extremely fast, it's very easy to use, it's highly stable and is free. It doesn't get much better than that! The only thing I'd ask for is better track naming abilities.
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| Apr 12 2008 |
XGRAPE I love this app. It's great for converting flac audio to apple lossless. And if you have a multi core Mac, I suggest going into the preferences and setting the max thread count to the number of cores you have. For instance right now I'm encoding 4 files simultaneously, one on each core :)
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| May 2 2008 |
FROMAGE-HEAD thanks for the tip
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| Apr 10 2008 |
PORTERLU XLD is superb. I have two functionality issues however: 1. Using a cue sheet, I can't get XLD to split a FLAC file into Apple Lossless. No problem converting to WAV or AIFF (I haven't bothered trying lossy formats) so I will then just import into iTunes and convert it from there (there must be a more reliable app for that but I haven't found it yet). 2. Also regarding cue sheets... isn't there a way to generate new (or append the old) cue & log files for the newly created files and integrate a multi-pass checksum verification function?
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| Mar 19 2008 |
BDKENNEDY1 I don't know what happened with this version, but it decodes my FLAC files to Apple Lossless 3 times slower than the previous version. I know this because I had just used the previous version on the same files 5 minutes before I updated the software. Also, one of the files didn't encode. This may not seem like a big deal, but if you're encoding a lot of files and aren't watching the screen, you could wind up with a lost song.
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| Mar 12 2008 |
FROMAGE-HEAD I tried to convert Apple Lossless tracks with embedded covers to MP3 but I lost the covers. Unsupported ?
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| Mar 19 2008 |
UMAROMC MP3 file format doesn't support embedded cover artwork.
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| Mar 8 2008 |
ANOMIA I asked for the progress window to be active/visable in the background again, and now it is! Thanks so much for this invaluable program and your constant care to see that it remains useable for those of us that rely on it!!! Well done.
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| Mar 8 2008 |
VERYCARLA Why do the files sound distorted in the Finder/Quicklook but OK in iTunes?
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| Mar 8 2008 |
VERYCARLA More info might help, yes? Why to HE-AAC files sound distorted in Finder/Quicklook, but OK in iTunes?
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| Mar 7 2008 |
RONAN1 Very impressive handling of cuesheets, with file conversion and cue splitting taking place far faster than you would believe possible. Simple interface means that you have to use preferences to set the output format, but overall this is an amazing app!
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| Mar 6 2008 |
LOUNGE DELUXE Wonderful software that worked and still works flawlessly. I use it a lot for .flac conversion, and whilst converting it provides an informative status window. It operates very fast (C2D Mini), uses minimal resources and its output has always been accepted by iTunes. And on top of that its freeware! Thanks a lot developer(s).
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| Feb 15 2008 |
TEKL Would be nice if it could also open MP3, so I can convert it to AAC (Itunes does not support threads).
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| Jan 15 2008 |
RISCY Excellent piece of software (and not just because it is free!) Does just what it says on the box, simple! I tried Max to convert some aiff files and couldn't as I now have Leopard installed - I know, that WAS silly! But guess what, X Lossless deals with it superbly. Many thanks to the developer :)
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| Jan 19 2008 |
VERYCARLA Just a note about Max - nothing against XLD - if you go to the app's site you can download a more recent (but not final) build of the app which I believe does work in Leopard. I still prefer XLD's simple, clean interface, but it's always good to have options. :)
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| Jan 6 2008 |
WPBDUDE Can't get it to work. Jan 6 23:21:20 xxxs-computer com.apple.launchd[210] ([0x0-0x39039].jp.tmkk.XLD[13782]): posix_spawnp("/Applications/XLD.app/Contents/MacOS/XLD", ...): Permission denied Jan 6 23:21:20 xxxs-computer com.apple.launchd[210] ([0x0-0x39039].jp.tmkk.XLD[13782]): Exited with exit code: 1 Anybody know what's goin on?
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| Jan 18 2008 |
RUMPLESTILTSKIN Try repairing permissions using Disk Utility. Also check if you're running as a non-admin user. It's possible this app may not be able to get started and create any necessary temp files with a non-admin account. Just guessing.
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| Nov 29 2007 |
ANOMIA Still love this program, however, can the progress window be made visible in the background again-or have that option in prefs? Don't like having to go to the prog to see it, for a check on ripping... Thanks
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| Nov 18 2007 |
NONTROPPO Latest versions work flawlessly in Leopard, including the all-new AAC full VBR decoder. This is great software
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| Nov 11 2007 |
DIONARAP I use this to "Play" my cue&ape files, but it seems plays "ENDLESSLY".
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| Oct 28 2007 |
SBORDSENIUS XLD is so very nice. But unfortunately it does not seem to work at all in 10.5 ? I really hope this get's fixed, now that I am used to it there is no way back..
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| Nov 2 2007 |
I've just used it on Leopard and it was fine for me, not rubbing it in or anything, maybe it's your system. ;-) Hope you get it working, it's the biz, I love it.
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| Nov 3 2007 |
SBORDSENIUS The problem in 10.5 is that it is impossible to transcode audio into Apple lossless . The rest works ok. But as I only use apple lossless, I'm at a loss :-(
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| Nov 15 2007 |
ABALEM ^_^ Well actually I'm using Leopard and I CAN convert to ALAC so I'd say it has something to do with your system.
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| Nov 15 2007 |
EJI Make sure you're using the latest version. XLD was just updated for Leopard.
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| Nov 15 2007 |
SBORDSENIUS Now it works with 10.5. Thank you very much, this is an excellent app.
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| Oct 27 2007 |
ENRICO NENCINI Just realized it generally works, but mp4AAC conversion seems broken.
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| Nov 2 2007 |
See the reply I made to SBORDSENIUS above, try repairing permissions etc etc. Wish you well.
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| Sep 27 2007 |
VERYCARLA Let me start by saying I love XLD. It's a great little tool and it gets a lot of use. There are a few things I could hope for from a future version though. First would be sorting. That is, when I specify an output directory (say, ~/Desktop/Encodes) and then drop a bunch of files on XLD, it would be nice if it could sort them into folders (i.e. Artist - Album). Does this make sense? The other feature I'd like to see is the ability to override the LAME settings with a custom string. (something like -V 7 --vbr-new) That, or extend the slider to 320k... Anyway, it's nothing pressing! Just some suggestions! Thanks for the great (and FREE!) app!
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| Aug 12 2007 |
GOER A wonderful piece of software, saved me hours of work. SHN support would be a nice extra, but for that, as well as encoding, we have xACT.
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| Jul 21 2007 |
HELPER1 Thanks for this tool it will be useful for a few things If i may though I was a bit disappointed that it would not open shn (which is another Lossless compression) or karaoke (cdg -don't really care about that one though) files. If i might suggest for future is to also allow one to compress music files and or directories with the app. That would be ideal ... both compression/extraction and playing if need. Thanks again for this great work it will be useful to many including myself.
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| Jun 29 2007 |
Finally I can rip those stupid single flac, ape or wav plus a cue file combinations that have been driving me nuts.
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| Jun 27 2007 |
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19873/max
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| Jun 29 2007 |
ANOMIA Wow, are you daft! This program doesn't need/doen't do intermediary files! Max is so not worth it-why would you bother, when XLD does so much more-and better!
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| Aug 10 2007 |
VERYCARLA Max is indeed a worthwhile application, but it's different from XLD. XLD, as far as I can tell, exists mostly to transcode existing lossless files into other formats. Max is more of a ripper/encoder. They're both great, and they're both in my Applications folder (along with xAct, another useful audio conversion tool).
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| Sep 17 2007 |
MEEGO Max is better with tags IMO.
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| Jun 27 2007 |
SPRINGHEELMAC EUKON- Did you try the 'More Information' link above? Spells everything out in black and white. Did you really have to rate the program, considering you didn't know what you were doing?
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| May 26 2007 |
TINTONIUM I've decode and encode several hundred FLAC and APE files without errors. The only one which works on 10.3 (Panther). Thank you very much for making it free!
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| May 26 2007 |
TINTONIUM First, open the CUE file, and then (if needed) the FLAC file.
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| May 25 2007 |
EUKON Could someone teach me how to use this program to decode .ape or flac files into separate tracks, because up until now: 1/ all my files were corrupted/ruined: after decoding only the hissing sound comes out (using iTunes); 2/ the cue file does produce the specified # of tracks, but only the 1st track has "a size" in Mb , the rest of the files are 0Mb Do you think it is enough of problems or what?
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| May 26 2007 |
TINTONIUM 1. Open the CUE file. 2. Open the FLAC file (if needed).
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| May 26 2007 |
EUKON That is exactly what was done only files needed to be decoded were in ape, so I opened "ape" After decoding into aiff: 1/ the original files were eliminated (although I marked the box in preferences to keep the original files) :(:(:( 2/ the converted files are not reproducible in none of the players. They only make a horrible hissing noise! :(:(:(
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| Jun 29 2007 |
ANOMIA Wow sounds like maybe you had bad luck-or a bad cue file?-you need to contact the developer directly and provide as much information as you can - including the files, so this can be reproduced. I'm sure if it IS reproducible, the developer will want to fix the problem - just don't expect them to tell you how silly you were for making such a simple error. You aren't giving them any chance though, are you? You assume that your ignorance is the developers fault and score this perfectly wonderful programme low marks!? Please try again, you will eventually grow up...
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| Mar 31 2007 |
STAKADUSH couldn't ask for more :)
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| Feb 15 2007 |
M CHANG Having a problem with converting FLAC to Apple Lossless. The files -- when transferred to 30GB video iPod -- force the iPod to restart (to black screen with Apple logo). Prince's Purple Rain -- Track 1 crashes 1 second in. Track 2 seems to play (for first 5 seconds, then I switched ot next track). Track 3 crashes in 1 second. Same for first track of Pet Shop Boy's Fundamental. I had a similar problem with Max (not the most recent version), where FLAC or other formats converted to Apple Lossless would result in a file that would play one second or so and then skip to next track. The most recent version seems to fix.
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| Feb 14 2007 |
Superior to xAct and Max. Thank you very much!
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| Jan 17 2007 |
ANOMIA I love this app; it has given me all the functionality I was needing for converting my music formats on OSX. Now, however the thought occurs to me, can I output a cue file? Well at the developer site it shows a command line way to do just that! Trouble is I can't do command line(actually, won't is nearer the truth), so I have to ask the developer(nicely) is it possible for the next GUI version to allow for a music .cue and log file to be generated along with the FLAC (tracks or disk file)? thank-you!
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| Dec 18 2006 |
PO60T Brilliant!
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| Dec 16 2006 |
UNICUMUM Its great, if one wants to convert from aif, m4a it didnt want yet...but I d love to have this with contextual menu support!....
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| Dec 17 2006 |
ANOMIA M4A, it turns out, it may have trouble with. It did one for me just fine(to FLAC), another it balked at; in any case, you must be running 10.4 though. Don't know why the 2 different results.
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| Dec 12 2006 |
DEFNAM i dont know what else to say but RESPECT to the developer of this app. the app is great bt the response that i got is absolutely amazing. well done mate this app definetly deserves five stars, no doubt.
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| Dec 8 2006 |
DEFNAM ok, let's start again. what im trying to do is make flac files directly from cd. i start the app, go file, open and then select the files on the cd that i want to encode. job is done fast and with no prob. later when i listen 2 the flac files i get this "khhhh" sound at the beging of each track. this happens whater i encode directly to flac, mp3 or any other format. if i decode some of my old flac files, the job is done perfectly with no glitches. this only happens when i do direct encodes from the cd, and i know the cd's are fine. so i dont know is it me? the app? or what. this app looks like exactly what i need as long as i can get it to work properly. any help is very much appreciated.
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| Dec 12 2006 |
ANOMIA check it out - the developer did a fix for your problem!
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| Dec 7 2006 |
DEFNAM the app is amazing n sooo quick. all is peachy bt one thing. i get a glich at the start of every track, which u admit is a bit anoying. beside that is great. im using macbook pro 10.4.8. fix this n im givin it a five star ;-)
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| Dec 8 2006 |
ANOMIA Hey sounds like you're the problem, not this app. You don't even detail the "situation" you're describing. Check the original rip, 'cause I don't know what you're talking about!!! I get clean perfect recodes from all my apes and flacs, whether I'm going to aiff, wav or LAME MP3...
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| Dec 7 2006 |
ANOMIA Forgot to give it 5 stars!
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| Dec 6 2006 |
ANOMIA I submitted this for a listing 'cause I couldn't believe it wasn't here already. You've gotta try this, it beats all the other stuff out there on the mac side; and probably some on th PC side as well. It doesn't have to do intermediary conversions!!! take that xACT, Max et al.
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