Best ripping & tagging software for Mac?

[aechmea]

Is Phile Audio for Mac?

Yes.

$12.99 from the App store.

[MrRogers]

Yes.

$12.99 from the App store.

Great. Is it comparable in features to other programs?

[aechmea]

I have used Max, XLD and dBpoweramp(Mac) at various times for conversions to and from Flac and Wav (not ripping).  They all work for what I want them to do.

 

For ripping I use dBpoweramp (Windows) with the $40ish add-on pack so that I can 'expand' HDCDs as they are ripped.  Something that you can't do on a Mac.

 

For replay I use Audirvana+ 1.5 in a simplistic way.  I just drag and drop a folder containing the flac album onto its icon and hit 'play'.  Analogous to playing a CD on a hardware CD player.  I don't particularly care for meta-data, genres, playlists and that sort of thing - but that's just me.

[davewantsmoore]

If wanted ... you can run dbpoweramp on Mac or Linux under the free windows emulator Wine.

 

You can also run the hdcd.exe program (that dbpoweramp is simply a wrapper for) via wine.

 

 

For replay I use Audirvana+ 1.5 in a simplistic way.  I just drag and drop a folder containing the flac album onto its icon and hit 'play'.  Analogous to playing a CD on a hardware CD player.  I don't particularly care for meta-data, genres, playlists and that sort of thing - but that's just me.

 

Same.   While I find metadata indispensable for browsing / sorting, etc.   ....   I don't necessarily need that interface for playing .....      most of the time the actual playback ritual is "get album, hit play"

[MrRogers]

Which software are Mac owners using to rip their CD collection with these days?

[Peter Sherriff]

I'm still using Phile Audio, haven't really found a compelling reason to switch.

 

It does a decent job grabbing metadata from iTunes and FreeDB, rips to a bunch of formats (of which I only really use FLAC), and the end result sounds ok for how I use it - a couple of Cyrus Streamers around the house for sitting down to listen, some LG MusicFlow speakers we got cheap for background music as needed in the house and a Pioneer XDP-100R for outside.

 

 

[mmv]

XLD for all ripping and converting.

 

[vinyl-62]

I use dbpoweramp on Mac for ripping.  Works very well.

[MrRogers]

So we have:

 

1. Phile Audio

 

2. XLD

 

3. dbpoweramp

[vinyl-62]

I moved from XLD to dbpoweramp and found it a more user friendly interface.

[MrRogers]

A few more programs

 

• dBpoweramp,
• Exact Audio Copy
• Rip (Apple MAC),
• XLD (Apple MAC),
• Songbook (Apple MAC)

 

[Biff]

I have just finished re-ripping my CD collection with XLD to aiff, very happy with it.

[MrRogers]

Great. Where can I download XLD from?


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[oldrose]

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/files/latest/download

 

 

 

[MrRogers]

Thanks


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