Free lossless audio software for mac

X Lossless Decoder 20090924 (XLD) is a comprehensive and easy-to-use 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. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later.

Major Features:

1. Support various formats
   • 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
   • 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, FLAC, HE-AAC (aacPlus v1/v2), Wave64 and WavPack in the GUI version.
   • XLD version 20080812 and later can be used as a CD ripper. You can convert each track in your audio CD into the desired format. Also XLD supports output a CD image with cue sheet (wav+cue, flac+cue, 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 they 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:

• Fixed a problem of ALAC metadata reader on Snow Leopard
• Fixed a problem that autoloading disc was not working on Snow Leopard
• XLD now accepts cover arts dragged from web browsers
• Implemented an interactive bitrate indicator for AAC ture VBR encoder
• Fixed a problem when reading ISRC tag in FLAC files

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 and later.

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Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Major Features:

1. Automatically normalize audio while converting.
2. Access online database to add song information as you convert.
3. Import multiple file formats at the same time and convert to one output format.
4. Ability to play tracks prior to conversion.
5. Import and convert a playlist (m3u and pls).
6. Import video files and extract audio (avi, mov, mpeg)

Requirements: none