[macOS] Ripping CD and Converting to FLAC

It has been a long time since I rip a CD to FLAC files and I used to do this on Windows. Now my primary system is macOS, I want to find out how to do this on a Mac.

(https://xiph.org/flac/links.html#software)

I decided to use macOS Music/iTunes to extract tracks from CD to Apple Lossless Audio Codec(AAC):

A Better CD Encoder(ABCDE)
with Homebrew installed, “brew install abcde”

X Lossless Decoder(XLD) – just run it once and set the Output format and directory then open the AAC files with XLD and it will convert them to FLAC automatically

Ripping CD and Converting to FLAC

I want to store my CD collections in digital format and, of course, I want them in FLAC format!!!  Here is what I use to do that.

I use Fast CD Ripper and Mp3tag applications.

The CDDB info that Fast CD Ripper gets from the internet often(if not always) not enough so once all of the tracks are ripped into FLAC format, I run Mp3tag on them and fix the name of the files and the MP3tag in them.

 

Fast CD Ripper

Fast CD Ripper

Mp3tag

Mp3tag