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CD collection transfer to Mac
« on: July 13, 2020, 10:27:21 AM »
So i have a ton of CDs, want to transfer them to my Mac external HD..is there a program out there other than Itunes to do this that you guys have used? thanks

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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2020, 10:46:38 AM »
I use EAC (Exact Audio Copy) on PC.  I have no idea if it's available on Mac.  If it is, though, it's likely worth considering.
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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2020, 11:01:48 AM »
I use EAC (Exact Audio Copy) on PC.  I have no idea if it's available on Mac.  If it is, though, it's likely worth considering.

AFAIK there is no mac equivalent to EAC.

EAC would probably run in WINE though
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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2020, 01:40:36 PM »
I'm not a Mac person, but my understanding is that xACT is the preferred CD ripping tool. Essentially the Mac equivalent of EAC.
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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2020, 01:59:08 PM »
while xact is the best native mac software, it lacks the redundant read-and-compare feature of eac , last time i checked (many moons ago)
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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2020, 03:55:49 PM »
I use Max to rip from CD to Mac:

https://sbooth.org/Max/

Old, but works fine.

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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2020, 05:55:55 PM »
I did a shootout between iTunes vs xACT recently (iTunes 12.9.5.5 vs xACT 2.49 or 2.50) and the resultant MD5 result was identical for all files on the silver disc under test.
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iTunes won't convert to FLAC for you, but you might like the tagging interface better, since it auto tags things that it can find in the CD database
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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2020, 08:13:26 PM »
Cool, thanks everyone for the info....Ya i guess just use Itunes or maybe that Max app looks interesting,.   i actually have xACT. hadn't used it in so long i forgot it does that as well.  so ill try those thx.

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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2020, 08:51:04 PM »
XLD is the EAC equivalent for OSX:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/



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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2020, 12:18:51 PM »
XLD is the EAC equivalent for OSX:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/

I second XLD. If you want good metadata control, use it in tandem with MusicBrainz Picard.
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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2020, 12:30:49 PM »
XLD is the EAC equivalent for OSX:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/

Awesome thanks, just tried this works great.

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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2020, 01:52:59 PM »
XLD is the EAC equivalent for OSX:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/

Awesome thanks, just tried this works great.

Trying XLD here as well, so far all good, thanks!

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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2020, 03:23:53 PM »
XLD is the EAC equivalent for OSX:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/

This is what I used to rip my whole collection. Awesome stuff.
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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2020, 03:55:16 PM »
XLD is the EAC equivalent for OSX:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xld/
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Re: CD collection transfer to Mac
« Reply #14 on: July 14, 2020, 04:06:45 PM »
When I suggested xACT I actually meant XLD.  ;)

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