What's the best way to rip CDs to a Mac?

[miguelito]

3 minutes ago, tmtomh said:

XLD.

+1

[miguelito]

13 hours ago, pkane2001 said:

Perhaps this was my fault, but in my configuration dBpoweramp nearly always found the correct metadata for the CDs, while XLD often couldn't pick one from multiple matches, and sometimes picked the wrong one. Also, the HDCD rip to 24 bit lossless format was important to me. XLD does not decode HDCD encoding.

I use XLD. Accurate metadata finding is useful for sure. I generally do a bit of curation of the metadata myself - eg album artist.

 

As for HDCD decoding, you can do this post-rip with dbPoweramp. I actually have a dbP license for Windows and used dbP to decode HDCD on rips I already had. FYI I am a mac person and run dbP with Crossover which worked just fine.