Flac to Apple Lossless

[Microman]

I know I have an App on my Macbook that does it, since I remember doing it before.

It must have been free.

What do you suggest I look......... for

[colonel panic]

Download XLD if you don't have it.

[hal]

And then re-name it so you can find it in the future...

[deckeda]

xACT is the other good one for stuff like this. I typically find XLD more straightforward of some reason however.

[deckeda]

And there's also Steven Booth's "Max". sbooth.org I think it is.

http://sbooth.org/Max/

It's also a CD ripper. I think XLD is as well. Ah, who am I kidding, no one knows what CDs are today.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

deckeda wrote:
And there's also Steven Booth's "Max". sbooth.org I think it is.

http://sbooth.org/Max/

It's also a CD ripper. I think XLD is as well. Ah, who am I kidding, no one knows what CDs are today.

I'm 80 GB into a project to rip all my CDs to Apple Lossless using XLD. I used to favor Max for ripping, but I have found its behavior to be unpredictable sometimes.

I think you would probably be OK to use either for transcoding between FLAC and AL. I will say that XLD is updated on a far more frequent basis than Max, which is probably a good indication of the level of support you could expect for either product should you need it.

[deckeda]

I can't disagree. But for ripping CDs to ALAC I also find that iTunes works pretty darn well for me. And it's got error correction on par with CDParanioa. Question: Are you storing the files in something other than iTunes?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

deckeda wrote:
I can't disagree. But for ripping CDs to ALAC I also find that iTunes works pretty darn well for me. And it's got error correction on par with CDParanioa. Question: Are you storing the files in something other than iTunes?

I'm ripping to and storing them on an external RAID 1 server. Otherwise I probably would have used iTunes for ripping.

[deckeda]

I'm always interesting in learning other people's workflow. I guess what I'm wondering is, if you're using ALAC you're presumably playing back via iTunes? What's the advantage with another ripper? Batch capability?

[WHiiP]

The MAIN advantage to XLD is the subject line. It handles FLAC to AppleLossLess flawlessly.