Hi Dónal, I did think you had probably checked the web page, but just consider this in the long tradition of terse unix documentation man pages. (Sorry, I wish there were a more descriptive source for how best to use this. Sometimes I find such descriptions in reviews, so I may hunt around for these or for blog postings.) Maybe Gordon can make some suggestions, since he and Lynne have been using this software.
Cheers, Esther On Sep 13, 2012, at 12:05, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi Esther, > > *smile* I'd looked at the webpage. I guess I was looking for something a bit > more comprehensive. For example, and this is purely illustrative, there's a > portion in the "preferences" dialog where one can specify the name of the > decoded (output) track. There are "%n" etc. used. Now I can decode the > default one easily enough, but what other options are there? > > > The Macworld articles I had not seen so will take a look at those. > > Cheers. > > DónalOn 13 Sep 2012, at 22:58, Esther <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Dónal, >> >> There's always the web page for XLD (English version): >> http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html >> You can check the section under the heading "How to use". It's also >> discussed (briefly) in a number of MacWorld articles such as the May 2011 >> article by Kirk McElhearn, "How to convert audio to other formats": >> http://www.macworld.com/article/1159773/convert_audio_to_other_formats.html >> and gets a mention in the June 2011 article, "How to find and play >> high-resolution audio on the Mac": >> http://www.macworld.com/article/1160651/how_to_find_and_play_high_resolution_audio_on_the_mac.html >> There's also some more detailed discussion in his February 2011 article, >> "Four reasons to rip CDs without iTunes": >> http://www.macworld.com/article/1158059/four_reasons_rip_cds_without_itunes.html >> >> Hope these links don't wrap, but you can find most of them on MacWorld's >> page that I pulled up in a web search: >> http://www.macworld.com/product/802661/tmkk_x_lossless_decoder_xld.html >> Navigate to the heading, "Macworld's X Lossless Decoder (XLD) Coverage" and >> look through the links to some of the listed articles. In a pinch, you >> should also be able to run down the articles with a Google search, since I >> give title, author, and source. >> >> HTH. Cheers, >> >> Esther >> >> On Sep 13, 2012, at 11:41 AM, Dónal Fitzpatrick wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> After months of procrastination I'm finally getting around to playing more >>> with XLD cd ripper. It looks excellent. >>> >>> However documentation is pretty sparse. Actually: that isn't true, it >>> seems to be non-existent. Does anyone have a user manual for this thing? >>> >>> Dónal <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
