xACT stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit. It is a GUI based front end (written in AppleScript Studio) for the UNIX applications Shorten (3.5.1), shntool (1.2.3), monkey's audio compressor (3.97) and flac (1.1.0). It also uses a modified md5sum (modified from 2.1 textutils) and sox (12.17.4). It does the basic commands of these applications and adds a few features to speed up productivity in creation of etree.org standard filesets. What's New: Version 1.3: added support for reading and writing FLAC metadata tags. You should be able to tab to each field and even to the filelist. tags supported: TITLE (I usually put the song name), ARTIST, ALBUM (for a live show, I usually put in the venue and date), DATE, COMMENT (for a live show, I usually put in the source info), TRACKNUMBER, GENRE, COMPOSER (useful for classical music) fixed bug where a filename with multiple periods would be truncated when converting to flac fixed bug when doing "len by disc" with no disc 1 files new, separate installer package for binaries changed the way shns are decoded. shn > aiff is now *much* faster (due to the calling of shorten directly). shn > aiff creates a temporary wav which will be deleted automatically. better error messages on shorten decode added document icons for flac, ape, shn, md5, and ffp. fixed a bug where a fingerprint file would not show up on the fileList if it was dropped on the unopened application. added support for encoding aifc files to either shn or flac. aifc to ape does not work at this time the ENTER key should click the main buttons on each tab |  |
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