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Hello everyone, how are you all doing today? I hope you are all doing great. I know it’s the start of the week and nobody really likes Mondays, certainly not me! But stay strong and before we know it, Friday will be here to save us all lol anyway, please read on…

Today we will highlight an awesome app for your Mac OS X called X Lossless Decoder. Yeah the name of this app could have been better but besides that, it’s really an app you must download, did I mention it’s also free? Let’s find out why this app is worth your time to install and download.

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What Is X Lossless Decoder?

X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various ‘lossless’ audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding.

XLD supports the following formats:

(Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg)
Monkey’s Audio (.ape)
Wavpack (.wv)
TTA (.tta)
Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 and later]
TAK (.tak) [Requires Wine]
Shorten (.shn) [SHN v3 only]
AIFF, WAV, etc.

Other formats supported by Libsndfile are also decodable. XLD uses not decoder frontend but library to decode, so no intermediate files are generated. All of the supported formats can be directly split with the cue sheet. XLD also supports so-called ’embedded’ or ‘internal’ cue sheet.

Currently you can choose output format from WAVE, AIFF, and Raw PCM. In addition, you can choose Ogg Vorbis (aoTuV), MPEG-4 AAC (QuickTime/CoreAudio), MP3 (LAME), Apple Lossless, and FLAC in the GUI version.