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CD Hardware/Software / Ripping CDs on MacOS in 2025
Last post by Axon -
I find myself wanting to rip CDs on a 2024 Mac Mini, outside the Apple ecosystem. A lost cause, I know. It's running Apple Silicon, but that is seemingly not a huge pain point right now.

I can't get XLD to work. I suspect I am encountering #599 XLD hangs detecting pregap, although IIRC, the hang also occurs when I turn pregap detection off.

The few contemporary discussion threads I can find on this subject all seem to end with “use dBpoweramp”. And I am totally willing to conclude that might be the only decent solution. But I'm skeptical, particularly because of the relative preponderance of free and decent rippers on Windows.

abcde (when installed via macports), preposterously... works, by virtue of cdparanoia working. I was never that pleased with abcde on Linux, but I was unable to find any particularly better solution.

Am I missing any other rippers on MacOS which are actively maintained, free or not?
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Other Lossy Codecs / Re: TOY, a lossy and experimental "do not use" codec
Last post by Klymins -
Quote from: a.ok.in on
problems found...  :-\
(i used ratio 7.7 for toy encoding, somewhat near to 160kbps)
btw, when there aren't problems, toy is comparable to mp3, though encoding is much slower.

The problem of 4 appears to be exclusive to ratio mode (more obvious with higher (worse) ratio values). FYI, TOY is much worse than MP3 at lower bitrates (by its nature) (excluding ratio mode because of this bug, I missed this).

Also, these cutoff points (yes, including MP3's) are too high for most people.