[LagunaSol]

So my lonely, home-built PC sits in the corner, quietly collecting dust except for the occasion when I need to rip a CD. iTunes error correction is worthless, in my experience, so I've resorted to ripping everything on my PC using EAC and a script that encodes the rips to Apple Lossless in iTunes. I then rip everything to DVD for backup and move it to my Mac for daily use. Quite a pain in the butt, and I'm aching to dump the PC entirely anyway. I've been looking for years for something that could perform EAC functionality on my Mac. Have I finally found it?

Browsing Hydrogen Audio tonight, someone mentioned a new OS X app that uses cdparanoia. Looks like a winner. Nice OS X interface, lots of encoding options, easy to use. Not as in-depth as EAC, for sure, but can it deliver comparable results? I'm trying it out now. Perhaps you should too?

http://sbooth.org/Max/

[analogika]

What?

I find iTunes perfectly fine for ripping to Lossless.

What problems are you seeing that force you to go through all that tedious bullsh¡t?

[LagunaSol]

iTunes is not effective on scratched up CDs, not even with error correction on. I get a lot of pops and clicks. For brand new CDs it does fine.

EAC does a fantastic job, but is Windows-only. Hence my search for an OS X equivalent.

[baw]

I've got CD that looks like sandpaper was taken to them and iTunes error correction had no problems. The CDs won't even play in a standalone CD player they are that bad.

[legend88love]

I agree. Itunes messes up even with error correction on. I just ripped a CD that actually sounds better played in my car stereo than the ripped version off Itunes. Pretty lame.

Don't expect anyone in a Mac forum to admit that some OSX functionality sucks, that would go against the almighty Mac God they all worship. How dare thee who criticizes the Mighty Apple!!!!


I don't know of any good ripper for OSX except some random shareware you may find online. I use my Windows Machine (Media Player 9) for ripping also for this very reason.