Easily Rip and Archive Your CDs Losslessly on macOS
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- Let's rip and archive your CD collection using macOS software! We will extract the audio from your CD's using a lossless, error checking method, and save to FLAC format. Then we will quickly and efficiently organize these FLAC files on your large storage system. The program we use to organize will also easily tag the files and download the album art for you! We will focus on macOS' XLD but these principles apply also to Windows 10/11 using Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
XLD: sourceforge.net/projects/xld/
MusicBrainz Picard: picard.musicbrainz.org/
Exact Audio Copy: www.exactaudiocopy.de/
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Straight to the point. My man, you have a knack for making tutorials. My cd is ripped 💪💿
Love this! I would also mention ripping to Apple Lossless Encoder (ALAC) is a great alternative if you use iTunes w/ iPhone or iPod (They will not nativly play FLAC, but do play ALAC)
I agree
Thank you! I’ve been meaning to start ripping my CDs and this video is exactly what I was looking for!
Glad I could help!
Awesome, was about to transfer my CDs to flac and this video was exactly what I was looking for
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you very much for the video. Super helpful 🙌🏻
Thank you, this is exactly the guide I've been looking for.
Glad I could help
Dude! That was awesome! Thanks!
Thank you for walking through the process copying CD's and the setting change necessary on a Mac! I'm about to embark on a video with music course to which will necessitate ripping sone of my CD's. Wish me luck!
Good luck!
Glad it helped! Best of luck on that!
Thank you for this information it was helpful
THANKS!!! I appreciate the help with this.
No problem!
Very informative and to the point. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
Great vid! Thank you.
You're welcome!
Thanks for confirming what I’ve been doing cheers mate
Happy to help
Thank you for this. I could not get past the Apple Refuses to Open part. Now Bingo!
Thank you so much for showing us how to archive and create a music library. It's been going really well, but some of the CDs produced in Japan don't provide good information. Other than that, I'm so happy the fact I am building my library on the external drive without capacity shortage on my mac hard drive.🥰🥰🥰
Hope you're glad you can have digital backups of your CDs now...
thank you so much! I am PC guy but I don't have CD drive to rip and.. I remember I still have my old Macbook Pro(2010) has CD drive. so I look up youtube and bam! I found your perfect video using Mac. I love FLAC so I learn how to rip using Mac. I don't like iTune so this is perfect!!!
Glad I could help!
Goated! Thank you so much!!
Glad it helped
Not sure if you are still reading comment, but I wanted to thank you. Your great video got me back into ripping my cds the “right way”…lossless. I’m spending a lot of time redoing earlier rips via iTunes…who knew. But thank you!❤
You can always make an MP3 from a FLAC if you need to but for archiving no sense in losing information, so use FLAC. Hard drive space is a lot cheaper than way back in the day. Thanks.
Hi there, which CD Writer did you use - one that’s compatible with Mac.
I don’t usually write CDs. Have you tried XLD?
@@Studio3BRocks Thanks for the reply. I actually meant which optical drive hardware, esp since you’re also on a Mac. I presume all of them write and read?
I actually use a hackintosh with an lg blue ray supported rom.
Awesome tutorial video.. I’m ripping my CDs on a mac and not going back lol- Thank you!
Glad to help!
Thank you for this video. I am new to ripping CD's so this was very helpful. My only question is as follows...Can I store the files directly to an external hard drive or do I need to rip to my Mac first and then transfer to the external hard drive? I'm guessing that I can but just want to make sure.
Depends if your hard drive is fast or slow. I wouldn’t want to interfere with ripping. But up to you!
Great video! Thanks! So, I started to rip my library to FLAC. I've previously used Apple to make mp3 files but want to get back to hi res audio. I've noticed that there is skipping on several of the tracks that I ripped. Any suggestions? Maybe the disc needs cleaned? I stopped my project since I have over 900 CDs and want to make sure I have flawless FLAC files before I continue. Thanks again!!!
You can clean the cds first. And avoid Burst mode. I use toothpaste to clean mine.
hello and thank you so much for this video. It wasbso easy to follow. Can you advise how to then playback in iTunes?
you can import your library and turn off file copying so you dont duplicate the files on your hard drive
Does the software have some settings you can change if you want to record an entire CD from start to finish as one long play track with preassigned pauses between each song edit in?
I think thats what a cue sheet does but I'm not as familiar with that yet.
Hey @Studio 3B, when I pop in a CD it takes FOREVER for the "Detect Pregap" process to complete. Any tricks to getting that to work faster?? Thx
burst mode might help but at the potential cost of less quality.
Thank you very much, in my case for the metadata I use the ap META. What do you think of this app called META?
I have not used it!
I use Music Brainz Picard for meta data. It is a bit daunting when you first use it, but it is worth learning how it works. I put literally all my music through it and it applies all the meta data. And it's free to use!
Does it matter what type of CD drive or are they typically the same?
I’m pretty sure most modern CD drives pretty much work the same
Will not open on Mac mini Sonoma 14 “this software needs to be updated. Contact the developer for more information.” Are there any other options?
Where did you get your installer app?
Hi, and thanks for the video, followed your directions to a dime to get a 45MB file for a 5 minutes song. What am I doing wrong?
Is it flac?
Great! I just ripped some of my old CDs. Can I ask you why is better option choose a high level of compression rather than none compression? Without knowledge of this, I mean with more compression level, more time and worse sound. Many thanks!
I would assume since both are lossless, that higher compression would simply take more time but yield smaller file sizes, which would be more ideal for archival.
Thanks so much. I have been looking something like this. Apple is a pain.
I have a love hate relationship with Apple
This is pretty good for Mac but I don’t think I can import FLAC to Apple Music library. I mean I could use plex as an alternative to stream my library of ripped music though…
You would likely choose ALAC for Apple Music
Actually, got some cassette tapes I want to rip. How do I do this?
Probably similar to recording vinyl. Using a DAW and audio interface. Check out similar videos on my channel.
Hey hope u are doing well, i have queston,my recently bought cds(released early 2000s, in NM condition) show no damage whatsoever aside from minor scratches that are barely noticeable, but when i try to rip them,(using macbook pro 2020 and usb superdrive which is completely new, with software called XLD) file comes out almost fully inaudible with scratching noises. Followed this video step by step,Tried also ripping them on Windows but nothing seems to work. Any help/tips would be greatly appreciated. Im still leaving hope that theres nothing wrong with cds but my gut tells me that, thats not the case. Anyways thanks in advance
Are you using burst mode? That is the low quality rip. Try a slower mode?
@@Studio3BRocksno i tried xld secure ripper but if i choose to determine pregaps then the bar doest fill uo at all, if i skip pregaps then it freezes at when it actually comes to ripping
@@spiritdancer152might be a dirty or scratched disk or your drive isn’t very good. I would google these symptoms to see what other causes there might be for this.
@@Studio3BRocks thank you ill look into it, cds appear cler with no significant scratches only a few harlines that are barely even visible , maybe it is the drive
I have found a lot of things on mac is a pain as a new user coming from windows.
It's hanging on "detecting pregap" the cd has only one track. It's been over ten min...
I just skipped pregap and it's fine. Thank you!
How much space would a CD ripped in Flac be compared to a Mp3?
On an average CD my FLAC files seem to range between 5MB - 50 MB in size. MP3s will be less than 6 MB on average.
Depends on the rip quality and length of each track really, but roughly speaking an MP3 album will typically be about 100MB and a Flac album will be 400MB ish. If it's a super high quality Flac rip, one album could easily be 1GB. If you have a DAC and some high quality headphones, you will appreciate the difference between Flac (superior) and MP3 (inferior) files!
Sadly that error message about malicious software comes up and then software needs updating. Won't download.
Wrong download site perhaps
I followed your steps to the letter but for whatever reason the track names don't show up. I've tried approximately 10 different CD's and no track names show up...just shows up as "01 Track 01.flac" anyone out there have any advice on how to remedy this? Thanks.
Check the XLD settings for file naming. Make sure you have an internet connection and are configured to use freedb.
@@Studio3BRocks Thanks. I don't know if XLD has made some changes to their program etc, since you made this video but I still get no track names i.e. "01 Track 01.flac" despite my XLD settings being exactly as yours. However when I am at the extract window if I click the "get metadata" icon it will get the track names and cover art and then I can click extract etc...
@@marthamellblom814 at least you found the metadata!
Not sure why you wouldn't just use Itunes, especially when using Mac OS. Its much easier and faster.
iTunes does not rip lossless
@@Studio3BRocks of course it does... WAV/AIFF/and ALAC
@@supaf1 excellent. Looks like a fairly recent development. Go for it!
Apple tech... 😢😢😮
Why compress the file? Hard drives are affordable I have 4000 CDs saved as uncompressed AIFF it only takes up 2.11 TB of space. You don't know how to add a second hard drive to your computer? AIFF is one of the original codex used to make CDs. You can burn a CD as AIFF and any CD player can play it.
The file is smaller and same quality. Easier to manage. Also ability for quality file tagging
If its lossless compression then it doesn't really matter.
@@nintendowiids12 I believe some programs are more bit perfect and do error correction during the process. I know on windows, EAC (Exact Audio Copy) does this method.
Thank u