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 (1.1.2).

xACT also uses a modified md5sum (modified from 2.1 textutils) and sox (12.17.4).

xACT 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 in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed bugs introduced by 2.14 relating to mp3 compression level and saved settings.