Software to Copy/Convert CDs

[MarcusH]

Hi

I tried to put some of my CDs on a thumb drive. It was easy enough, in Finder, to drag and drop the tracks into the thumb drive.

Problem was my LG television doesn't read the AIFF-C files. It reads: WAV, Mp3 and m4a – and maybe others, but not AIFF.

I could use iTunes but I'm running out of space on my Mac. And it's laborious: I have to import into iTunes, create a playlist, and then copy to the drive – and then there's the problem of ._files. ?

Ideally I want software that: 1) Copies from the CD to thumb drive, 2) Adds Gracenote info 3) Converts the file format. And 4) No ._files!!!

Does this exist?

M

 

[doobydoooby]

XLD will do what you are looking for. But you know from itunes/apple music you can just rip the cd to your library in the format you wish? You select it in preferences. You aren't stuck with AIFF. Or you can rip it into itunes in format x and then go to file -> convert and convert to mp3 for your usb drive, then you could drag the result to your drive?

 

[tranceking26]

You can change the file type that iTunes rips to.

 

[HDFan]

You can change the file type that iTunes rips to.

iTunes/Preferences/General/Import Settings

 

[MarcusH]

Thanks for this, but is there a way that avoids iTunes?

Is there something where I just plug the optical drive in one port, the thumbdrive in another, and a piece of software manages the transfer and conversion in between??

 

[jlc1978]

Have you tried changing the library location to the thumbdrive?

 

[doobydoooby]

I already said to you before, XLD will do this

 

[MarcusH]

SOLVED! I used To Audio Converter Lite, but I could have used XLD. If I keep iTunes open then it populates the finder window with the track names from Gracenote. Then I drag to Audio Converter and it's all done. And no ._Files !!!!

Thanks for replying everyone.