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1. #BEST CD RIPPER FOR MAC 2016 FULL#
2. #BEST CD RIPPER FOR MAC 2016 PRO#
3. #BEST CD RIPPER FOR MAC 2016 SOFTWARE#

Despite the lack of built-in optical drive, there are workarounds available, among which the USB external DVD drive for Mac maybe the easiest. However, the removal of DVD drive doesn't mean blocked access to DVD discs on Mac.

#BEST CD RIPPER FOR MAC 2016 PRO#

(cover image is a Laserdisc,, CCBYSA3.As Apple kills off the optical drive in its MacBook Pro and MacBook Air to maintain super-thin profiles, users are left with no ways to play or rip DVDs on Mac directly. Leave ’em a donation if you find these useful. It has a bunch of other options like checksum validation, splitting and joining audio tracks and a tagging utility, but this is the feature I use the most. Just drop a list of files into the Encode list, pick your output format and hit Encode.

#BEST CD RIPPER FOR MAC 2016 SOFTWARE#

There are a number of different pieces of software with these four letters as a name. This one stands for (x) “Audio Compression Toolkit”, but I eXpect they want you to pronounce it “eXact”. Yes, it’s another one of those pieces of software with X in the name. There’s another piece of software I use for converting between different audio formats. You get a nice report on each track it’s ripped along with an OK/No Good indicator so you know what didn’t get copied correctly. Of course, there’s not much you can do if you get a bad rip short of trying to hunt down a copy of that CD and ripping the bad tracks over again. What’s great about XLD is that when it’s finished ripping, it checks every track against a global checksum. It’ll output to just about any format, though I’m still on Apple Lossless because of old habits. Just go to the file menu, select “Open Audio CD” and you’re in business.

The General tab is where you’ll want to select your output format.

The first time you open it, you’re presented with the preferences screen. It has a bunch of options you probably won’t need and pretty sane defaults. Usually, when I see something with an X prefix in its name, I tighten up in anticipation of a terrible user experience, but XLD isn’t bad at all. Apply enough of these smoothing treatments to a copy and you’ve just ruined that carefully-mastered recording. Instead of rereading to see what was actually there, it will interpolate a value that makes sense. ITunes’ idea of error correction is to take an average across the error. If they find an inconsistency, they reread the chunk. Most good ripping software will attempt to verify what was read to ensure an accurate copy. Spinning discs are susceptible to errors picked up from vibration or scratches on the surface. Most CD rippers have some notion of error correction. It is a pain to use, deliberately makes some things difficult or impossible (e.g., dragging music files out of it for copying or transfer to a non-iOS music player) and is bad at its job! In this case, the job I’m referring to is ripping audio from a CD. Let me reiterate: iTunes is not good software. If this is something you still do from time-to-time, read on.

#BEST CD RIPPER FOR MAC 2016 FULL#

It’s going well, thanks, but there was one piece that was still missing for me: ripping CDs.įor most people living in the modern age of streaming music, this probably won’t matter, but for the collectors out there with shelves full of old discs, it might still be important. I recently wrote about my efforts to get iTunes out of my life. They are an obsolete technology that existed in the latter quarter of the twentieth century and enjoyed a brief metamorphosis into the DVD (“digital versatile disc”) and Bluray formats at the beginning of the twenty-first century before fading away forever. A CD or “Compact Disc”, is a small, shiny round surface containing optically-readable, microscopic bumps used to encode music or data.