As you know, FLAC file is a Free Lossless Audio Codec while ALAC is Apple’s answer to FLAC. Convert.FLAC into.ALAC File Format XLD is an advanced audio decoder that rips CDs to any format, converts music from.FLAC to.ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), or FLAC to Apple Lossless, APE, WAV, Lame MP3 format, etc. 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. X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a awesome tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode, convert and ripp audio files. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later. Download the current stable release 20141129 from the official page or directly from here.

1. Mac Convert Flac To Mp3
2. Xld Media
3. Xld Download
4. Xld Cd Ripper

Split a single-file lossless album image such as FLAC, APE, WV still a headache and for Mac OS X user is no exception.
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• The following tutorial is only for Mac OS X users.
• For Windows users see this tutorial.

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STEP 1: DONWLOAD AND INSTALL XLD
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• X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a awesome tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode, convert and ripp audio files. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later.
• Download the current stable release 20141129 from the official page or directly from here.
• Install…

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STEP 2: XLD SETTINGS

Mac Convert Flac To Mp3

1. Run the application, then go to main tabs and hit XLD tab and select Preferences…
   
2. In Preferences window hit General tab and choose FLAC in Output Format, then hit Option button and setup as shown.
   
3. In File Naming tab setup as shown.
   
4. In Batch tab setup as shown.
   
5. In Metadata tab setup as shown.
   
6. Other Tabs not pictured aren’t necessary for now.
7. Now in main XLD tabs select Profile tab and save your settings as Convert to FLAC.
   
8. Now seize the moment to setup for Apple lossless (ALAC), hit a General tab and choose Apple Lossless in
   Output Format, then hit Option button and setup as shown.
   
9. Repeat 3, 4, 5, 6 points to setup other tabs.
10. Now in main XLD tabs select Profile tab and save your settings as Convert to Apple Lossless (ALAC).
    

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STEP 3: SPLIT & CONVERT

1. In main XLD tabs select Profile tab and choose Convert to FLAC, then go to File tab and select Open…
   
2. In the next window search and select the Cue sheet file from your single-file FLAC album folder, then hit Open button.
   
3. In the next window choose the single-file FLAC album image to split, then hit Open button.
   
4. In the next window leave as shown on picture, then hit Transcode.
   
5. Wait the progress…
   
6. As you can see it has created a New folder.
   
7. Containing the single-file FLAC album image splitted into Flac tracks.
   
8. Now if you want to split & convert to Apple lossless (ALAC), go to main XLD tabs and select Profile tab and choose Convert to Apple Lossless (ALAC), then go to File tab and select to Open…
   
9. Then repeat 2, 3, 4, 5 points.
10. You’ll get to split and convert single-file FLAC Album image into Apple Lossless tracks.
    

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CONVERT FLAC TRACKS FILES TO APPLE LOSSLESS (ALAC)
• If you already have a FLAC tracks album as shown.
• And you want convert to Apple lossless.
• Go to XLD tabs -> Profile -> Convert Apple Lossless (ALAC)
• Then Go to XLD tabs -> File -> Open…
• In the next window select your FLAC tracks to convert and hit Open button.
• Wait the progress…
• And as you can see it has created a New folder containing the Apple Lossless tracks.

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• As an optional recommendation, I suggest always keep the original Lossless file as the main backup.

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Another helpful file conversion tip.

FLAC is a lossless audio codec that is very popular on Linux and on Windows. However, it’s virtually non-existant on the Mac, which is a problem if you have a library of music that you have encoded in FLAC and you want to upload to your iTunes library.

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There are various command-line solutions out there on Windows, but very few available for Mac OS X.

XLD is the answer.

The “X Lossless Decoder” offers super fast conversion of various lossless formats on the Mac, with a decent GUI, and better yet, drag-and-drop conversion.

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

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, FLAC and HE-AAC (aacPlus v1/v2) in the GUI version.

Hope this helps you audiophiles out there converting to the Mac. I converted entire albums from FLAC to Apple Lossless in just minutes on a PowerMac G5.