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Suggested workflow single-file CD archival?
Authored by: doneitner on Oct 21, '05 07:16:19PM

Unfortunately for my needs (desires) I have not found a native MacOS X option for archiving my audio CDs to FLAC. All the tools are available, but they're all separate. What I've used is a program on Windows called CDEX. It does the CDDB lookup (and allows me to edit the song titles, etc. if necessary), it does the ripping and (with flac.exe installed as an external encoder, which CDEX supports directly) it does the encoding. What I'm left with is a folder of /artist_name/album_name/ with each track listed in order, in FLAC format and having the ID3 tags (or whatever tag format FLAC uses) filled in with the relevant information.

I would LOVE to have such an all-in-one solution on the Mac. The only thing that comes close is iTunes but iTunes doesn't support FLAC in any way shape or form that I can find. I specifically chose not to use Apple Lossless because, honestly, I can't say that in 10 years I'll be using a system that Apple supports and FLAC, being open source, if necessary I could compile it for whatever system I use and be able to convert my audio into some other useful format then.



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