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Topic: Ripping CDs on MacOS in 2025 (Read 4217 times) previous topic - next topic
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Ripping CDs on MacOS in 2025

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?

Re: Ripping CDs on MacOS in 2025

Reply #1 –
There’s also xACT.

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Reply #2 –
And it seems that fre:ac is also available for macOS. I have never used it though.

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Reply #3 –
dBpoweramp?

It used to be that it would still work even after the trial expired for most things (except MP3 encoding?) but it's been a while since I've ripped any CDs, so perhaps that's changed.

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Reply #4 –
may be less expensive to just buy a dead cheap mini pc.
And so, with digital, computer was put into place, and all the IT that came with it.

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Reply #5 –
another recommendation for dbpoweramp.  It's not free but does have a Mac version.  In fact latest version allows you to buy a license that can work on either windows install or Mac install.