Split a single-file lossless album image such as FLAC, APE, WV still a headache and for Mac OS X user is no exception.
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- The following tutorial is only for Mac OS X users.
- For Windows users see this tutorial.
X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a 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. X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. Saturday, June 9, 2018 Coming up the next period, more Android and iPhone/iPod Touch games. Demon's crest manual. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.4.
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STEP 1: DONWLOAD AND INSTALL XLD
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STEP 1: DONWLOAD AND INSTALL XLD
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- X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a awesome tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode, convert and ripp audio files. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
- Download the current stable release 20141129 from the official page or directly from here.
- Install…
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STEP 2: XLD SETTINGS
STEP 2: XLD SETTINGS
- Run the application, then go to main tabs and hit XLD tab and select Preferences…
- In Preferences window hit General tab and choose FLAC in Output Format, then hit Option button and setup as shown.
- In File Naming tab setup as shown.
- In Batch tab setup as shown.
- In Metadata tab setup as shown.
- Other Tabs not pictured aren’t necessary for now.
- Now in main XLD tabs select Profile tab and save your settings as Convert to FLAC.
- Now seize the moment to setup for Apple lossless (ALAC), hit a General tab and choose Apple Lossless in
Output Format, then hit Option button and setup as shown. - Repeat 3, 4, 5, 6 points to setup other tabs.
- Now in main XLD tabs select Profile tab and save your settings as Convert to Apple Lossless (ALAC).
STEP 3: SPLIT & CONVERT
- In main XLD tabs select Profile tab and choose Convert to FLAC, then go to File tab and select Open…
- In the next window search and select the Cue sheet file from your single-file FLAC album folder, then hit Open button.
- In the next window choose the single-file FLAC album image to split, then hit Open button.
- In the next window leave as shown on picture, then hit Transcode.
- Wait the progress…
- As you can see it has created a New folder.
- Containing the single-file FLAC album image splitted into Flac tracks.
- Now if you want to split & convert to Apple lossless (ALAC), go to main XLD tabs and select Profile tab and choose Convert to Apple Lossless (ALAC), then go to File tab and select to Open…
- Then repeat 2, 3, 4, 5 points.
- You’ll get to split and convert single-file FLAC Album image into Apple Lossless tracks.
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- CONVERT FLAC TRACKS FILES TO APPLE LOSSLESS (ALAC)
- If you already have a FLAC tracks album as shown.
- And you want convert to Apple lossless.
- Go to XLD tabs -> Profile -> Convert Apple Lossless (ALAC)
- Then Go to XLD tabs -> File -> Open…
- In the next window select your FLAC tracks to convert and hit Open button.
- Wait the progress…
- And as you can see it has created a New folder containing the Apple Lossless tracks.
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- As an optional recommendation, I suggest always keep the original Lossless file as the main backup.
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I've been wanting to do the switch for a very long time now but never had the 'guts' to. I'm now happy to say that I just purchased my first MacBook Pro and am in the process of switching over all my stuff from PC, but I'm having a bit of trouble with one particular very important aspect.
The way I worked on my PC is that I had all my files on a 4TB external drive that was (semi-permanently) plugged into my PC. So when I purchased the MacBook I figured all I needed is to have the right software and just plug in my external drive to the Mac and continue using it the same way. Turns out, it's really not that simple. I searched the net to find some solutions but frankly I didn't find any clear answers, that's why I came on here to ask (been a very long time reader - not poster hehe). I now know the formats are different (NTFS vs FAT) so I'm not sure how I can adapt to that, and obviously I don't want to lose all my files! Is there a way I can use the hard drive as-is on my MBP?
Ideally I'd like to be able to use it on both Mac and PC as I will be keeping my old PC for little things from time to time. Thanks in advance for all your help!!
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Greatly appreciated!!! I recommend that you consider buying ANOTHER hard drive, which will become your 'Mac hard drive'. Initialize it for HFS+ with journaling enabled. Then, gradually move things from the PC-formatted drive to the HFS+ drive. If you have IMPORTANT Mac files, you should store them on a Mac-formatted drive.
I've seen enough instances where users kept stuff on a PC-formatted drive (using it with a Mac), and then one day, something or other went wrong,. All their Mac files were gone. So again, if the Mac files are important to you, keep them on a Mac drive.
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And keep that drive backed up, as well. There's no reason you can't keep some stuff on the MacBook's internal drive. It's very fast.
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Last modified: 2018/10/19 What is this? X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files.
Saturday, June 9, 2018 Coming up the next period, more Android and iPhone/iPod Touch games. Demon's crest manual.
The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later. XLD is Universal Binary, so it runs natively on both Intel Macs and PPC Macs.
Features Support various formats XLD can decode following formats:. (.flac/.oga). (.ape). (.wv).
(.tta). Apple Lossless (.m4a). (.tak) Requires, or. (.shn) SHN v3 only. AIFF, WAV, etc Other formats supported by 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. XLD supports various output formats. It can convert audio files into WAVE, AIFF, Raw PCM, MPEG-4 AAC (QuickTime/CoreAudio), MP3 , Apple Lossless, FLAC, HE-AAC (aacPlus v1/v2), Wave64,. 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). 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.
How to use IMPORTANT NOTE: To split ape(flac,wav,etc) + cue files, open the.cue file from 'Open.' In File menu. 'Open Raw PCM (bin/cue)' can be only used to handle Raw PCM (header-less wav) files. Prease refer Readme file included in the archive to get usage of GUI version. Usage of command line version is:% xld -c cuesheet -e -f format -o outpath -t track file Without any option, XLD simply outputs decoded WAVE file. The extension of the output file is changed from original one into '.wav' You can specify the following options: -c cuesheet Split file into tracks with cue sheet. If 'TITLE or 'ARTIST' is described in the cue sheet it affects the name of the output file.e Exclude pre-gap from output file.
Pre-gap is appended to the last of tracks by default. This option is ignored when '-c' option is not specified.f format Specify the format of the output file.
You can specify the following formats:. wav Microsoft WAVE format.
This is default output format. Extension is '.wav'. aif Apple AIFF format. Extension is '.aiff'. rawbig Big-endian raw(linear) PCM format.
Extension is '.pcm'. rawlittle Little-endian raw(linear) PCM format. Extension is '.pcm'.o outpath Specify the path or name of the output file.
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If outpath is a directory, output file is saved in that directory.t track If you specify '1' as a track, only the track 1 is decoded. Likewise, Track 2 and 4 are decoded when you specify '2,4' as a track.raw Read input file as Raw PCM. Following 4 options can be specified.samplerate n Set samplerate of input file to n Hz when -raw option is specified. Default is 44100 Hz.bit n Set bit depth of input file to n bit when -raw option is specified. Default is 16 bit.channels n Set number of channels of input file to n ch when -raw option is specified. Default is 2 ch.endian little/big Set endian of input file when -raw option is specified.
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Default is little. Examples% xld -o /Music hoge.flac -f aif Decode hoge.flac in the AIFF format, and output in /Music.% xld -c hoge.cue -t 1,3 hoge.flac Split hoge.flac with hoge.cue, and decode the 1st and 3rd tracks. Download The source code of XLD is available. The library and header of Libsndfile, FLAC, Wavpack, Monkey's audio and Libcddb is required to compile. Command-line version is included in the archive. Additional Plug-ins (put into /Library/Application Support/XLD/PlugIns to use).
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(updated on 18/10/1) Make a donation If you appreciate XLD and would like to support the project, you are welcome to donate via Paypal. USD: Euro: Donation amount can be changed via quantity field. Version history 2018/10/19. Fixed a potential cause for random crash when active task exists in a task window. Fixed a graphical glitch when switching between dark and light mode. Do not try to load plugins built only for incompatible CPU architecture anymore.
Fixed a problem that prevented CLI from running on zsh. Fixed a problem that -o option in CLI did not work properly under some conditions. Updated Opus to version 1.3 2018/10/1. XLD has become 64-bit app 64-bit version requires OSX 10.6 and later.
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Now XLD is a 3-architecture universal binary, so 32-bit intel and PowerPC machines are still supported (10.4 and later). Note that external plugins should be updated to use with the 64-bit version.
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Supported dark mode appearance in macOS Mojave (Experimental) Disabled by default, but you can enable by choosing 'Enable Dark Mode Support' under XLD menu. It requires app restart to switch enabled/disabled state. When it is enabled some graphical glitches may appear (regardless of light/dark appearance). Supported EBU R128 for gain analysis Now XLD uses EBU R128 loudness curve with -18 LUFS reference level for ReplayGain calculation. If you still want to use a traditional ReplayGain loudness curve, enter defaults write jp.tmkk.XLD XLDGainAnalyzerFormula -int 1in Terminal.app.