How to rip cd to FLAC

I wish to eliminate my stack of CD's by archiving them onto a Hard Disk Drive.
I wish to have excellent FLAC files after ripping so that I can enjoy the music quality of the CD in the future, without having the actual CD anymore.
Is there a good program that would RIP the CD's into FLAC with GUI and exact reproduction of CD?
Thank you in advance-

I've used Max before, it was a definite + over iTunes for damaged cd's which wouldn't read properly, but it's not been updated since 2009. I've seen XLD recommended here too, but never tried it.
Details at Audio Converters for Mac : Max vs XLD

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    I am not personally aware of any freeware that does what you ask. However, DVDxDV Pro (check it on VersionTracker) does what you want. The shareware price is $80, and is considered fairly high end. It does rip out audio separately from video. There is a less expensive version of this app available also, $25, but it does not separate the audio.
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    1. Erase the iTunes library (not the files) on all three machines for a clean start.
    Right Click/Duplicate first, just in case. OR (better method) hold the Option key while opening iTunes and choose create new library.
    2. On Each machine, Preferences -> Advanced -> General: Set the iTunes music folder to the external drive where the current music files are located. Also set each computer to "Keep Music Folder Organized" and "Copy files to iTunes Music Folder..."
    3. on Each machine, select File -> Add to Libary: to add all of the current music files.
    4. Start simultaneously shoving my CDs into the three machines and re-importing using lossless / telling it to overwrite existing files when prompted.
    If you have changed ANYTHING about a song title, album title or artist, iTunes will not see it as a duplicate.
    5. When done re-importing the CDs, erase the macbook libraries (I don't listen to music on them), tell the mac mini to erase it's library, then re-add all the newly ripped files and the preexisting/not-overwritten files to the library to rebuild it, so that the mini becomes aware of the files that were added / rewritten by the other two machines.
    On the three machines, hold the Option Key while opening iTunes and choose the original library, then delete the new library file you created for this adventure. Then do the same to create a new library on the MacMini. If you have created playlists, first export each playlist as a .xml file and import it when finished.
    While none of the three machines would be ripping the same CD or trying to overwrite the same music files at the same time, my concern is that all three machines would run into problems if trying to update / write to the same iTunes non-music file, for example the iTunes Libarary Database file of the iTunes Library.xml file on the external drive.
    They will each be creating their own unique library database, missing what the other two machines are adding to the iTunes Music Folder. They will not be re-writing the .xml file on the external hard drive. Each computer will have it's own .xml file on it's hard drive.
    Tracy

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