Meridian Unplugged - Powered by MrTechGuy.co.uk Forums Discussion Meridian - Streaming XLD setup for Sooloos

I want to use XLD for ripping and check my already accurate? data/music.
I guess its the best to store FLAC files on my Ensemble,
then Sooloos will work flawless and with best quality.
There are a lot of setups in XLD what i do not understand and/or know what is the best for Sooloos.
I have adden some screenshots for my questions
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Please help here for the setup with the best sound.

Thanks

Robert

I gave up with XLD.

I now rip with dBpoweramp in a Windows 8 VM running on OSX.

dBpa just works(TM), quick ripping, gets great quality artwork, finds meta data everytime.

Regards
Greg

(Not a very helpful post for Robert. XLD just works too. And dBpa doesn't work on OS X yet. And it costs, which XLD doesn't. And dBpa doesn't retrospectively check AR status, AFAIK.)

Robert, I'll get back to you on your specific questions but basically you just need to leave it as it was when installed. Set to FLAC, set to "user C2 error pointers", and that's about it.

Spoon has been releasing betas of dBpa on Mac OS X (up to beta 7 now). It works pretty well, in fact I use it for all my new discs now instead of vmware+dBpa win now.

Tag 1.0.3 from Feisty Dog software for tag editing for $4.99 from the App store is finally a good FLAC editor natively compiled for Mac OSX.

I'm sorry you feel that way. However I wouldn't have written it if I thought it wasn't helpful.

Sure, XLD is free, but I outlined above why I felt dBpa was better than XLD. I personally feel that dBpa is WELL worth the money and the effort of running a VM.

I didn't say don't use XLD, I used it for years, but I finally downloaded the dBpa trial version and couldn't believe how much easier and faster it was than XLD. By all means go down the XLD route, but my time is worth something and the cost of dBpa came well under that.

Personally, I don't find YOUR post helpful.

Regards
Greg

Spoon has done great work on dBpa over the years and the Mac variety is slowly but surely catching up on the Windows original. I rarely tweak XLD unless downsizing hi-res, say, for iPhone but for best advice try the XLDGuide.

~M~

Hello to all answers here.

Thanks for your good advice/thoughts/suggestions.

It will help me to move on "Peace on earth"

It's a forum here - have fun and play good music

Thanks
Robert

Could someone give a brief reason why I need anything besides Control:Mac for importing discs or files to my MC200. I have been using it for a couple of years now and haven't come across an issue.

Several reasons

- Disaster - both my C15 and MD600 die the day after warranty expires

- Improbable - Meridian stops support

- Curiosity - to be able to drag and drop the independent rip (e.g. dBpa) to a 'different' system to try.

- Murphy's law - all backups are corrupt when you need them

The main reason is that unlike XLD or dBpoweramp, Control:Mac doesn't seem to create metadata tags which can make using your ripped music in other systems more complicated.

Soundserge

Thanks.

Since I am not really concerned about any of those issues (other than Meridian stopping support of MDMS) I will continue along just using Control:Mac to get my music onto the MC200.

I thought I might be missing something SQ wise.
Jim