When it comes to ripping CDs accurately, XLD is among those that take such variables into consideration as 'read sample offset correction' (and 'write sample offset' for those that burn the occasional disc).Īnd, with a decode library backend, it has been format upgradeable since the beginning, without the sufferance of flakey third party plug-ins never a flaky FLAC, or OMG this OGG sucks. I've run XLD Universal Binary on everything from Power PC G4 through G5 to recent Intel minis, Macbooks, iMacs and Mac Pros without problem (IOW, every architecture and OS since Panther). Foobar used to be able to do that, but it has lost the functionality. Having said that, it would be good to have software which took tags directly from Discogs, because it’s the best online database by far. Hence the tagging software needs to let you tag easily from a list copied to your clipboard.

In practice when that happens, you can find a track list online, normally in discogs or allyourmusic, which you can copy and if necessary, edit. The key thing is what you do when there are no suitable database tags.

Just generally, the key thing with tags is NOT that you can tag from a database like freedb and musicbrainz or whatever. Bear in mind though that you may have to download plugins for tagging from certain databases, and I don’t know how available this will be. I notice that it has been ported to the Mac and given it’s free, I think it’s worth trying. Click to expand.I use PC and over years I’ve used many ripping and tagging tools, and the one I like most is Foobar, because it’s flexible and powerful, even if the UI is a little less friendly than dbpoweramp.

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