Easily Rip and Archive Your CDs Losslessly on macOS

Let's rip and archive your CD collection using macOS software! We will extract the audio from your CD's using a lossless, error checking method, and save to FLAC format. Then we will quickly and efficiently organize these FLAC files on your large storage system. The program we use to organize will also easily tag the files and download the album art for you! We will focus on macOS' XLD but these principles apply also to Windows 10/11 using Exact Audio Copy (EAC)

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[robertgusberti]

Not sure if you are still reading comment, but I wanted to thank you. Your great video got me back into ripping my cds the “right way”…lossless. I’m spending a lot of time redoing earlier rips via iTunes…who knew. But thank you!❤

[GunzyTech]

Love this! I would also mention ripping to Apple Lossless Encoder (ALAC) is a great alternative if you use iTunes w/ iPhone or iPod (They will not nativly play FLAC, but do play ALAC)

[ziggytonumaa]

Straight to the point. My man, you have a knack for making tutorials. My cd is ripped 💪💿

[jeremygambill]

Much appreciation for posting this video. Randomly found a brand new Apple SuperDrive at Goodwill the other day and finally decided to RIP the ol' cd collection on to my Mac.

[italoandre]

Thank you! I’ve been meaning to start ripping my CDs and this video is exactly what I was looking for!

[edwardbarbieri]

Thank you for walking through the process copying CD's and the setting change necessary on a Mac! I'm about to embark on a video with music course to which will necessitate ripping sone of my CD's. Wish me luck!

[themightyapefish]

Awesome, was about to transfer my CDs to flac and this video was exactly what I was looking for

[stephenc]

Helpful video. I've been using XLD on my Mac Mini using the cheapest of the cheap DVD drive. It's annoying that you only know that XLD is open because its menu is at the top of the screen. No window appears until you actually open a CD or the program settings.

One tip: if the CDDB lookup in XLD doesn't find your disc, open it in Apple Music first.. This seems to use a different database that contains more obscure discs. Once you've opened the CD in Apple Music, XLD somehow inherits the previously missing metadata.

[ritty]

I can't tell you how much time you've saved me. Thanks for making this tutorial!!

[overdriver]

thank you so much! I am PC guy but I don't have CD drive to rip and.. I remember I still have my old Macbook Pro(2010) has CD drive. so I look up youtube and bam! I found your perfect video using Mac. I love FLAC so I learn how to rip using Mac. I don't like iTune so this is perfect!!!

[דודוסר]

Thanks for the clear, straightforward tutorial. And great choice of album for the demo!

[kadegray]

Thank you, exactly what I was looking for. I guess allot of us are figuring out what to do with our CD collections about now.

[paulazmom]

Thank you so much for showing us how to archive and create a music library. It's been going really well, but some of the CDs produced in Japan don't provide good information. Other than that, I'm so happy the fact I am building my library on the external drive without capacity shortage on my mac hard drive.🥰🥰🥰

[georgewashington]

Awesome video. So many CDs to convert. Sweet leaf is audio gold.

[GlamdentOfficial]

Broooo ik im late but tysm this really helped with my cd archive im making

[cobar]

Thank you for this. I could not get past the Apple Refuses to Open part. Now Bingo!

[luramen]

Awesome tutorial video.. I’m ripping my CDs on a mac and not going back lol- Thank you!

[BenjaminSill]

Thank you for the straight forward and helpful tutorial!

[stewartlaw]

Thank you, this is exactly the guide I've been looking for.

[jezzylawson]

Thanks for confirming what I’ve been doing cheers mate