X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for 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. XLD supports the following formats:
- (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg)
- Monkey’s Audio (.ape)
- Wavpack (.wv)
- TTA (.tta)
- Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 and later]
- TAK (.tak) [Requires Wine]
- Shorten (.shn) [SHN v3 only]
- 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, and FLAC in the GUI version.
What’s New
Version 20211018:
- Improved a ripping engine to avoid unnecessary disc spin down/up between tracks on some drives
- Fixed a crash on macOS Monterey beta
- Fixed a problem that an app icon is not displayed properly on older Mac OS X
- Fixed a memory leak when playing a file which doesn't exist on a disk anymore
- Fixed a problem that some generated ALAC files are not accepted in other decoders and/or XLD itself
- Updated WavPack to version 5.4.0
Compatibility
OS X 10.4 or later
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