Vince, I know of only two GUI rip, tag & encode to FLAC programs for
the Mac. The first is MARS (Mindawn Audio Ripping Software) available
at:
http://www.mindawn.com/download.php
It is very slow but it does work and it is a complete package. The
second is PureMusic Audio Player available at:
http://homepage.mac.com/steve_bryan/Personal12.html
This one is primarily a audio player but it does have the ability to
rip, tag & encode to FLAC if you have the FLAC libraries installed on
your system. If you don't you will need to "./configure, make, sudo
make install" the FLAC source code available from:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/download.html
Both of these programs are very early in their development but show
promise. There is some talk of adding rip, tag & encode ability to
xACT on the xACT forum at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xACT-users/
but for now you would have to tag manually if you were to use it. I
was hoping someone would figure out a way to add FLAC ability to
iTunes like the excellent iTunes-LAME Encoder available at:
http://blacktree.com/apps/iTunes-LAME/
but the only thing I was able to come up with was to rip in iTunes to
AIFF, extract the tag information with MP3Rage available at:
http://www.chaoticsoftware.com/ProductPages/MP3Rage.html
and write a simple script to encode the AIFF to FLAC using the tag
information from MP3Rage. Not exactly Mac like! Anyway, give them a
try and let us know what you think and be sure to let us know if you
find anything else that works, Steven

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 11:23:52 +0100, Vince <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>     Does someone know a software allowing under mac osx rip of cd
> >> with cddb and encoding with correct tags in flac format ? as I found
> >> nothing really correct. I found some rip software but I need to enter
> >> manually infos of tracks :(
> >
> > I ripped my library into FLAC with "abcde" on Debian Linux. It
> > automatically queries freedb and adds the appropriate tags after
> > giving you a chance to edit them.
> > Since abcde is open source, it could probably port to OS X without too
> > much trouble.
> 
> Well I know abcde but it's pretty dependant on Linux so port is not so
> easy :( I should look into something else but thanks nevertheless for
> your suggestion :)
> 
> Vinc�n
> 
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