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X Lossless Decoder - 20090924

Decode, convert, play various lossless audio files.

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	20090924
Release Date:	2009-09-24
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	1,702
Downloads (all versions):	22,914

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Product Description:

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. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later.

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 and HE-AAC (aacPlus v1/v2) in the GUI version.

What's new in this version:

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

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3

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I Agree... - Version: 20090924, 9/28/2009 04:15PM PST

ol_pip

This has gotten me out of a couple situations where some files needed to be extracted before I could do anything with them. Been a fixture in my cpu's utilities folder for a few years. Worth just having.

Does exactly what it says on the tin... - Version: 20090828, 9/15/2009 07:35AM PST

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SpaceMagic

Just started using this app and have to say I'm impressed. Often these audio or video apps say they do something but then do it badly or charge you obscene amounts of money for something you would this is relatively simple (especially with CoreAudio). I could be wrong there though... :)

One thing: interface. Just needs a window to open when you open the app. Otherwise users need to go searching for how to use this app. Would be nice to have an open list box when you start the app and then just drag all the files you want to convert and click convert :)

Perfect for importing downloaded FLAC files to Apple Lossless for iTunes and my iPod - Version: 20090320, 4/14/2009 02:56PM PST