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DESCRIPTION
xACT stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit. It is a GUI based front end written in AppleScript Studio for the Unix applications Shorten, shntool, monkey's audio compressor, flac, and cdda2wav with paranoia support. It also uses a modified md5sum and sox. It does the basic commands of these applications and adds a few features to speed up productivity in creation of etree.org standard filesets.
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.62: Release notes unavailable at the time this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Developer:Scott Brown
Downloads:252,504
  - Version d/l:18,027
Multimedia & Design:Audio
License:Free
Date:21 Jan 2009
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
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Oct 18 2009
*****

MACZENTRUM  Awesome!  
(Version 1.62)

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Apr 9 2009
*****

AUTODIDACT  I needed a program to convert .flac to something that iTunes could play. This met my needs and the program is free!  
(Version 1.64)

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Apr 21 2009

KEWL  @ AUTODIDACT

You should try XLD. It's also free and it's more transparent to use. Simple drag and drop.  
(Version 1.64)

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Dec 21 2008

DEMOGORGON  Running 10.5.6, MacBook Pro 15"

Clicked shntool tab

Clicked split button

Selected wav output

added my .ape file

... then clicked Call Shntool and got this odd output:

sh: shntool: command not found

How is this possible? I have shntool installed BOTH in my /opt/local/bin AND in the Contents/Resources/Binaries/bin of the app itself?  
(Version 1.64)

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Aug 5 2008

VERYCARLA  The CD ripping feature doesn't seem to work. I'm working with a clean, unscratched CD which I want to rip. I've had xAct 1.64 working for half an hour, and it's produced zero results. I don't hear any noise coming from the drive at all, and there should be something, as it's a fairly noisy drive.

MacOS X 10.5.4, MacBook 1.83ghz Core Duo, 2gb RAM. Ripping to internal hard drive from internal CD-RW.  
(Version 1.64)

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Sep 30 2007

IAMNOSKCAJ  Does anyone know WHY Growl support was removed from v1.61?? From the notes of 1.62, it wasn't added back.

Strange!  
(Version 1.62)

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Apr 30 2008

XSMURF  I'm speaking through my hat, but GrowlHelper is a little flawed in 10.5.X and takes a LOT of CPU and it seems to hang rather often (at least here)  
(Version 1.62)

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Aug 22 2007
*****

JETCURIEUX  Excellent app. Concise and to the point. Makes transcoding a snap. Plus now LAME is integrated. To sum up in one word. Indespensable.  
(Version 1.62)

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Aug 21 2007

ANOMIA  This and X Lossless Decoder are indispensable for the mac Audiophile!

Thanks to both authors for jobs well-done, at a price everyone can afford!  
(Version 1.62)

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Jun 9 2007

ALIDORO  Love it, great application  
(Version 1.59)

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Feb 6 2007

ALDORR  Thanks so much. I was trying to figure out what to do with some shn files! You're a big help.  
(Version 1.59)

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Jan 21 2007

TOBES  Truly fantastic. Dear Developer, please don't stop!!!  
(Version 1.59)

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