How-to: Copying Audio CD in Mac OS X?

[chemistry_geek]

How do I copy an Audio CD in Mac OS X? I was looking at Apple's DiskCopy program and it only gives the options of making a Mac OS, Mac OS Extended, UNIX, and MS-DOS disk image. Is there a way to actually copy an audio CD like Adaptec Toast does in Mac OS 9? I've got some CD's I just want to copy for archival purposes (really) and I don't want to convert them to MP3 and burn back to disk using iTunes. Though this is easy to do, I would be losing some quality which is not acceptable.

 

[xaqintosh]

in iTunes, open the preferences, and then importing. Where it says "mp3 encoder" switch that to AIFF encoder. then make a playlist of your cd and burn another one from that playlist.

 

[fryke]

plus there's toast for os x, of course. but don't update to 5.1.4, only to 5.1.3. the newest update breaks audio-cd copying, afaik. something to do with digital rights management. bullsh... they still let you make MP3 cds?! well, whatever. iTunes AIFF is okay.

 

[ByerlyRips]

Audio CD copying is still available in Toast 5.1.4.