XLD

OMG! Thanks so much for this and keeping the Mac G5 PPC alive!!! I have not used this yet but I have been having to convert my FLAC files on a PC and then copying them to my Mac so I can put the music files in my iTunes and onto my 5G ipod!

Xld is very good for me to convert SACD-ISO to Flac. I found xld-20181019's DSD filter can't choice IIR filter. When I convert a DSD to 88.1kHz Flac, find many quantization noise above 30kHz. Can Xld add noise filter choice. I found some knowledge from roonlabs : The 24kHz filter results in frequency response characteristics that are nearly guaranteed not to offend your PCM gear, but this involves placing a filter fairly near to the limits of human frequency perception. It's a conservative/safe setting. The 30kHz filter is the best compromise, it's the default in Roon, and what we recommend for most users. This setting nicely removes nearly all of the noise spectrum in DSD, while leaving some space between stuff we can hear and the filter itself. The 50kHz filter preserves significantly more noise (especially during DSD64 playback), but is even less likely than the 30kHz filter to muck with frequency response in an audible way. This doesn't mean it's "better". It's possible that with some gear, this filter will sound worse than 30k depending on how the gear reacts to the HF noise.

I recently quit Apple Music and restored my Music library. It was a ton of work re-ripping and converting media. XLD did a great job of converting/ripping music tracks to AAC. The "open folder as disc" was the most used feature, it let me group tracks together and then paste in a Musicbrainz link to fill in any missing metadata or album art. I highly recommend this app to anyone with FLAC or even disorganized mp3 files. Two thumbs up!

I have used XLD since 2013 for ripping my CDs and converting music files. The tool is very fast, reliable and easy to use. In particular, I love the command line version that can be used in a shell script, e.g. for converting multiple wav files with cue sheet to multiple output formats, e.g. Apple Lossless format for playing with iTunes on Mac (better quality) and mp3 for iPhone (smaller file size).