Flexible audio compression toolkit
Audio compression tools don't come much more powerful than xACT.
xACT stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit. It is based on a simple GUI written in AppleScript Studio and supports everything from FLAC to, Md5Sum. It can be not only be used for compression, but also for cutting and joining files such as SHN, FLAC, WAV and AIFF. You can even edit meta data in FLAC tags one by one or or in batches. Apart from compress, you can also obviously decompress between various lossless audio formats.
To process a file, simply drag it to the xACT icon in the Dock. Be warned however that xACT is quite a technical application with absolutely no help file. There doesn't seem to be any developer site either so beyond simple compression and decompression, you may have problems with it.
xACT is a very powerful audio compressor and decompressor but it can be a little difficult to work-out without any kind of user guide.
Added option to auto-create ffp file when fixing sector boundary errors and outputting to FLAC format Fixed bug when fixing sector boundary errors and outputting to SHN format with md5. xACT now reads album art from AIFF files. Fixing AIFF or FLAC files now retains all of the metadata tags. Custom tags now saved on each keystroke Very primitive support for encoding to Opus format (lossy tab) xACT will prevent the computer from going to sleep while there are tasks running
Changes
Added option to auto-create ffp file when fixing sector boundary errors and outputting to FLAC format Fixed bug when fixing sector boundary errors and outputting to SHN format with md5. xACT now reads album art from AIFF files. Fixing AIFF or FLAC files now retains all of the metadata tags. Custom tags now saved on each keystroke Very primitive support for encoding to Opus format (lossy tab) xACT will prevent the computer from going to sleep while there are tasks running
User reviews about xACT
by Anonymous
great update!.
Since I did the upgrade, I can't decode any files, any suggestions??? Restarted my computer, still didn't work.
by Anonymous
does exactly what it says it does.
to the reviewer who said it's not multithreaded: yes it is. it uses multiple threads and multiple cores.to the reviewer who got the error message: "dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022," that's because you were using OS X 10.5 when the requirements said 10.6 was needed. The latest version (2.12) works fine on 10.5 nowthis site, however, only has version 2.08latest version is here:http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14246/xact More
by Anonymous
Great App, but needs CPU multi threading and 64 bit code..
Your app is supiriour for audio conversion on the Mac.I have a Mac Pro , dual CPU.
/>Your app only use one CPU thread!
I have 16 CPU threads!!
This app could be 16 timers faster
on my Mac Pro!Suggestion:
Consider 64 bit multithreading this great app.Keep up the good work.simweb
Denmark Pros:
Easy to use, great GUI, many Audio codecs.
Cons:
Non CPU multithreading
Non 64 bit code
This app only uses 1 CPU thread on a multi core or multi CPU Mac.
On a Mac Pro dual CPU this app could work 16 to 24 times faster
if it could multithread!!!! More
by Anonymous
dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022.
dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022
dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022
dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022Over and over again. Do I need to pay for this now to get a working version? This WAS the best little proggie around, but now it's just useless bites on my hard drive. I'll read the other reviews now in the hope of finding an answer to why this no longer works on my mac mini running 10.5.8 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
Pros:
WAS the best little multifunctional proggie around untill it Quit working ;-(
Cons:
No longer runs on my Mac More