XLD

XLD

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A secure ripping featuring AccurateRip for Mac OS/X
Developer(s)	tmkk
Release information
Initial release	{{{released}}}
Stable release
Preview release
Compatibility
Operating system	Mac OS X
Additional information
Use	Digital Audio Extraction
License	GPL
Website	XLD website

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Introduction

X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac 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. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later.

XLD is Universal Binary, so it runs natively on both Intel Macs and PPC Macs.

Features

XLD supports the following formats:

• (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg)
• Monkey's Audio (.ape)
• Wavpack (.wv)
• TTA (.tta)
• Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 and later]
• AIFF, WAV, etc
• CUE Sheet generation
• AccurateRip technology

Other formats supported by Libsndfile are also decodable. XLD does not use the decoder frontend but the library instead 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, FLAC, HE-AAC (aacPlus v1/v2), Wave64 and WavPackin the GUI version.

XLD version 20080812 and later can be used as a CD ripper. You can convert each track in your audio CD into the desired format. Also XLD supports output a CD image with cue sheet (wav+cue, flac+cue, etc).

Development API

The source code of XLD is included in the StuffIT light expander archive. The library and header of Libsndfile, FLAC, Wavpack, Monkey's audio and Libcddb is required to compile it.

• libparanoia
• libsndfile
• libflac
• libwavpack
• libape
• libcddb

Plug-ins

The frontend and backend of XLD are seperated. The frontend is able to access the various decoders with the same interface. In the future various plug-in interfaces will be provided, so that you can easily develop plug-ins for new formats. If you are interested in doing this, please see XLDDecoder.h in the source files.

Source code

The source code is included in the archive below and is released under the GPL. Due to the rapid progression of developement on XLD it best you consult the source-code on thedevelopers website for the latest builds, which may include new features and binaries that are not listed on this wiki page.

• xld-gui-20080914.tbz (GUI version)
• xld-20070917.tar.bz2 (Command-line version)
• Vorbis aoTuV beta5 Plugin (For those who like the latest one; updated on 08/6/1)
• Vorbis aoTuV beta5.5 Plugin (For those who like the latest one; updated on 08/6/1)