Thank goodness for EAC in Parallels (narrative guide to ripping CDs securely on Mac)

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I use MusicBrainz (XLD has an option to get metadata from there instead). If the MusicBrainz entry doesn’t exist, I add it.

Note the “Get Metadata from URL…” option. It can take any MusicBrainz or Discogs link. That’s handy if you don’t want to add metadata.

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That’s magic. Enabled me to get the CD from AccurateRip, when it wasn’t finding it before. Very very nice. So good.

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Uncle.

XLD is so much better.

I’m glad I have parallels - it was so darn easy to set up. Totally worth the subscription for windows Excel alone. But there’s also a bunch of freeware / tools that work better in windows.

But XLD >> EAC.

No joke, far far better.

Thanks to all who convinced me to go for it.

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I’ve just completed ripping my music CD collection to FLAC. Most albums dBpoweramp didn’t have issues with. However there were a handful of albums that dBpoweramp failed to read. Or failed to rip. XLD read those discs with no problems and ripped them successfully as well.

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Pro tips. Use Window mode instead of Coherence mode (unless you’re a psychopath). Lock down the VMs so they don’t have unlimited access to the Mac file system. Turn off all of the bi-directional app sharing. Just get a VM running in a Window. Use Snapshots. Use them often. When you want to evaluate or play with a piece of Windows software, create a snapshot. If it doesn’t play out, just revert.

Thanks for this chat on ripping. I learned a few things. Appreciate it!