XLD

how to install on a mac?

Simple, easy but powerful and reliable, and still alive and updating! (PS: I use it to split DTS cue to single tracks or export to stereo mp3/aac). thanks! tmkk

Supah-d***h! XLD has so far been the most convenient and reliable way to convert FLACs into iTunes lossless ALAC .M4A files and import them into iTunes (and from there you can auto-downsample them and put them on your iPod without doing anything manual – if you're an old fossil like me who still has an iPod). Even has a metadata tags editor so you can make sure they import with the proper titles and so forth. Also will recognize and use a cover pic in the same directory if one is present with one of several typical file names. And it does a pretty good job of getting info off the Internet, too, unless you're working with a very obscure release. Been using it for about 4 years now.

OMG! Thanks so much for this and keeping the Mac G5 PPC alive!!! I have not used this yet but I have been having to convert my FLAC files on a PC and then copying them to my Mac so I can put the music files in my iTunes and onto my 5G ipod!

Xld is very good for me to convert SACD-ISO to Flac. I found xld-20181019's DSD filter can't choice IIR filter. When I convert a DSD to 88.1kHz Flac, find many quantization noise above 30kHz. Can Xld add noise filter choice. I found some knowledge from roonlabs : The 24kHz filter results in frequency response characteristics that are nearly guaranteed not to offend your PCM gear, but this involves placing a filter fairly near to the limits of human frequency perception. It's a conservative/safe setting. The 30kHz filter is the best compromise, it's the default in Roon, and what we recommend for most users. This setting nicely removes nearly all of the noise spectrum in DSD, while leaving some space between stuff we can hear and the filter itself. The 50kHz filter preserves significantly more noise (especially during DSD64 playback), but is even less likely than the 30kHz filter to muck with frequency response in an audible way. This doesn't mean it's "better". It's possible that with some gear, this filter will sound worse than 30k depending on how the gear reacts to the HF noise.