Hello Gordon, Although you want a lovely GUI interface. I would suggest that you look at abcde. Which stands for a better cd encoder. It's a very light weight set of scripts run from the terminal. Via Mac Ports. I used to have a couple of the customised scripts and run them according to the job I wanted to do. i.e. cd2mp3 or cd2ogg.
HTH Gena Georgina Joyce Applied Psychologist Training and Coaching. Because individuals of groups matter! On 13 Oct 2013, at 07:13, Gordon Smith <gor...@mac-access.net> wrote: > Hi Sarah > > Neither of these are dedicated rippers though, so I don’t class them as > alternatives. XLD is a dedicated file converter and ripper, designed for > audio and only audio. What I personally am looking for is something which > has a more XLD-like interface, a more XLD-like functionality specification > but a more intuitive interface. This is one of those sorry occasions where I > curse myself for letting my programming skills slide. I got lazy when the > GUI came along and ever since then I have regretted it. If only, if only, > I’d continued when I started to study C and C+ all those years ago, I’d have > been a master programmer by now and I would have been able to achieve my > dream, of having a Mac Access dedicated suite of utilities to fit the bill. > > In any event, the search goes on as far as I am concerned. I would also add > that I have been using Virtual CDRW from Burningthumb until recently but, for > reasons which I cannot as yet discuss, it no longer works for me. So I’m on > the hunt for something else which might. I tried Disk-Soft Demon Light, but > OS X won’t even allow me to install the drivers. > > Kind regards > > <--- Gordon Smith ---> > > <gor...@mac-access.net> > > Telephone: > > United Kingdom: Free Phone: > 0800 8620538 > > Mobile: > +44 7907 823971 > > Europe and other non-specified: > +44 1642 688095 > > Or: > +44 1642 941776 > > United States Of America And Canada: > +1 646 9151493 > Or: > +1 209 436 9443 > > Australasia: > +61 38 8205930 > Or: > +61 39 0284505 > > Fax: > +44 1642 365123 > > Follow Us On Twitter: > <http://twitter.com/maciosaccess> > > Skype: > <skype:mac-access-dot-net?call> > > ------------------------------ > > > > > On 12 Oct 2013, at 19:45, Sarah k Alawami <marri...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I know simply burns does rip, but it does not work in the way one would >> want. I think it only rips an image of the media not the actual stuff.. >> amadeus 2 I think also rips but I have not upgraded yet so cannot verify >> this. >> >> Take care. >> On Oct 12, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Gordon Smith <gor...@mac-access.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> hi >>> This is something which I too would value for much the same reasons. XLD >>> certainly has its merrets, and I too avoid iTunes as far as ripping CDS >>> goes. This is despite the fact that my CD material is always virtual. I >>> only use real CD media as a very last resort. Even with virtual media, >>> however, XLD is painfully slow nowadays and the only indication of a >>> successful rip is to enable 1logging mode, then you can at least verify >>> that the job went error-free by examining the output log. For reasons I >>> cannot discuss here, I'm not currently even able to do this. 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