Files supported formats during decoding can be broken down into individual tracks on the basis of information in the files cue heet. XLD is Universal Binary, so it runs natively on both Intel Macs and PPC Macs.Ĭonvert and play audio data in a variety of lossless-format.
The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. Think of each of these conversions like a photocopy of a photocopy you probably won’t hear the difference if you convert an MP3 to an AAC once, but if you convert it again, you may have a quality loss.Size: 6.51 MB X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various ‘lossless’ audio files. If you have lossy files – MP3 or AAC, for example – you need to know that each conversion you make will degrade the quality slightly. Also, Apple Lossless takes up about half the space, and offers the exact same quality.) (Note that WAV files don’t support tags very well, so I don’t recommend using them with iTunes. So if you have FLAC files you want to use in iTunes, you can do so by converting them to Apple Lossless. If you use lossless files, remember that you can convert to and from any lossless format – WAV, AIFF, FLAC, Apple Lossless, and others – with no loss of quality. You’ll have files in a new format in a jiffy. For example, here are XLD’s settings for converting files to Apple Lossless:ĭrag the files onto the app’s icon, or to its window, and click the Convert button.
In either of these apps, just choose the output settings you want to use. On Windows, the free version of dBpoweramp offers similar features.
It can convert to and from a couple dozen audio formats. On the Mac, the best app, by far, is the free XLD. You can convert files using iTunes, but I find that it’s a lot easier to use dedicated apps.
(It also supports some other formats, such as Audible audiobook formats, but you can’t convert to or from those formats.) ITunes, for example, supports the following formats: WAV, AIFF, Apple Lossless (ALAC), MP3 and AAC. You can convert these files to other formats using a variety of apps, but not every app can handle all formats. As you use digital audio files, you may find that you have files in formats that aren’t compatible with the software or hardware you’re using.
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