X Lossless Decoder 20090828

X Lossless Decoder 20090828 is a helpful tool for Mac OS X with the ability to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later.

Major Features:

1. Support various formats: 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, FLAC and HE-AAC (aacPlus v1/v2) in the GUI version. 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
2. Plug-in oriented design: Frontend and backend of XLD are prefectry separated, so the frontend is able to access the various decoder with the same interface. If we provide plug-in interface in the future, you can easily develop the plug-in of the new format. If you are interested in this, please see XLDDecoder.h in the source files.

Enhancements:

• 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).
• Existing "MPEG-4 HE-AAC" encoder is still available, but this is different from the Apple's one. Fixed a small problem in CD info.cidb parser
• Updated internal drive offset database
• Updated Simplified Chinese resources