The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox, aka “Essential Apps For The Digital Junkie”.



‘X Lossless Decoder: Lossless audio decoder for Mac OS X’. A truly superb app that allows the mac pirate and digital junkie to encode/transcode/compress/decompress a veritable cavalcade of different audio formats.

XLD is the best and most sophisticated CD ripping tool for OS X and should be used by any self-respecting pirate. Artwork and track names can be pulled from freedb and other sources. Useful for digital junkies with iPods is XLD’s ability to losslessly convert flac files into apple lossless files. XLD also includes an audio player that decodes anything a pirate can throw at it! The app is regularly updated and well maintained.

From the XLD site: “X Lossless Decoder(XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various ‘lossless’ audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later.”

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The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox, aka “Essential Apps For The Digital Junkie”.



A digital junkie or pirate will often stumble across rar archives. Files in rar archives end with a .rar file suffix. Rar is like zip, a form of file compression. Unlike zip however OS X supplies you with no apps to open these archives (CLI tools are provided).
From the UnRarX site: UnRarX is a Mac OS X Cocoa application that allows you to expand rar archives and restore corrupted or missing archives using par2.

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The Mac Pirate’s Toolbox, aka “Essential Apps For The Digital Junkie”.



Out of the box Apple’s Quicktime supports a dismally small amount of filetypes and video codecs. Therefor VLC Media Player with its comprehensive support for different video files and video codecs is a must have for any OS X digital junkie who does not spend his or her time accumulating content solely in the iTunes Store.

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