Hi, All!

I've been planning a workflow for archiving my physical CD's in digital files with as much confidence as I can get, and then generating music files for listening on iTunes or on an iPod.

I'm on a Mac, but I started using EAC on a Windows VM because that was the best ripper I could identify from my research.
My plans were to rip the CD's on EAC and convert then to MP3 using LAME and XLD.

All that changed last year, when XLD became capable of ripping CD's, validating against AccurateRip DB and saving a nice log.
I decided then to use XLD for everything, but it is a bit boring to alternate the settings between ripping to FLAC and converting to MP3.

I'm trying now to keep XLD as the ripper, but use Max to convert the FLAC images to MP3 and automatically add them to iTunes.
XLD would do a raw rip, and in that step I would car more for accuracy than for tags.
In Max I would review the tags, add album art, etc.

If it was working as intended, I wouldn't be here asking for help, so let's go for the problems I found:

1. XLD is configured to embed the cuesheet into the FLAC file and also save an external cuesheet.
If I open the FLAC file directly in Max, it doesn't recognize the embedded cuesheet ("The file does not contains an embedded cuesheet"), but if I open the same FLAC file in XLD it finds the cuesheet;

2. If I open the external cuesheet file in Max, it finds the tracks and rips them correctly, but then it appears that Max only uses the metadata that is in the cuesheet. It doesn't get anything from the MusicBrainz database (if I open the CD from which the cuesheet was generated, Max recovers the release date of the CD from MusicBrainz, but it doesn't if I open the cuesheet);

3. When Max tries to add a file to the iTunes Library, it generates an error: "iTunes got an error: File permission error". I don't get that, as the file didn't exist in iTunes before.

Did someone experience similar issues?

I'm using the last versions of XLD (20090829) and of Max (0.9.1).

Best regards!