{"id":383,"date":"2021-11-28T15:09:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/?p=383"},"modified":"2021-11-28T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T23:56:16","slug":"ripping-cd-and-converting-to-flac-on-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"[macOS] Ripping CD and Converting to FLAC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been a long time since I rip a CD to FLAC files and I used to do this on Windows.  Now my primary system is macOS, I want to find out how to do this on a Mac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/xiph.org\/flac\/links.html#software\">https:\/\/xiph.org\/flac\/links.html#software<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>X Lossless Decoder(XLD) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/tmkk.undo.jp\/xld\/index_e.html\">https:\/\/tmkk.undo.jp\/xld\/index_e.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>free audio converter &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freac.org\/\">https:\/\/www.freac.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Better CD Encoder(ABCDE) &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcde.einval.com\/wiki\/\">https:\/\/abcde.einval.com\/wiki\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Max &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sbooth.org\/Max\/\">https:\/\/sbooth.org\/Max\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>dBpoweramp Music Converter &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbpoweramp.com\/\">https:\/\/www.dbpoweramp.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p>I decided to use macOS Music\/iTunes to extract tracks from CD to Apple Lossless Audio Codec(AAC):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"656\" height=\"461\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/macOS-ALAC-Import-Settings.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-394\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/macOS-ALAC-Import-Settings.png 656w, http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/macOS-ALAC-Import-Settings-427x300.png 427w, http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/macOS-ALAC-Import-Settings-600x422.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A Better CD Encoder(ABCDE)<br>with Homebrew installed, &#8220;brew install abcde&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>X Lossless Decoder(XLD) &#8211; just run it once and set the Output format and directory then open the AAC files with XLD and it will convert them to FLAC automatically<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"604\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/XLD-Preferences.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-397\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/XLD-Preferences.png 612w, http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/XLD-Preferences-304x300.png 304w, http:\/\/www.yootopia.com\/mystory\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/XLD-Preferences-600x592.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a long time since I rip a CD to FLAC files and I used to do this on Windows. 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