xACT 2.18 Build 5207 - Changelog

What's new in xACT 2.18 Build 5207:

May 21st, 2012

· Should work in Mac OS X 10.5 again. (the latest version of Xcode doesn't seem to make a 10.5 compatible version even though it says it does)
· Changed how the shntool "split" function works when renaming files from a cue sheet. It should handle accented characters better.

What's new in xACT 2.17 Build 5156:

April 30th, 2012

· fixed bug in auto-naming files when user gave 2 tracks the same name
· fixed bug in performing shntool operations when a directory had square brackets in the path

What's new in xACT 2.15:

December 10th, 2011

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

What's new in xACT 2.14:

December 6th, 2011

· Fixed bug where flac files with .FLAC (uppercase) extension could cause xACT to crash when converting to mp3
· "Lossy" tab now remembers your compression level settings

What's new in xACT 2.13:

June 28th, 2011

· Added ability to tag MP3, Monkey's Audio, and WavPack files. Changed FLAC tagging to make unicode-friendly. Added ability to add album art to FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless and MP3 files.
· fixed bug when "Delete original files" option checked and task canceled that resulted in original files still being deleted. Check now in place to prevent this.
· added user preference to delete files or move to trash when "Delete original files" checked. Default is to delete.
· added ability to convert Apple Lossless files to LAME mp3. Tags and album art will be copied to the mp3.
· Added ability to parse a CUE file for tags (album, performer, track names). From the "FLAC/M4A Tags" tab, select "Load Tags From CUE sheet…" from the File menu and choose a cue sheet. xACT will attempt to parse the metadata from the file. Note: previous "Load track Names from file" was moved from the Edit menu to the File Menu.
· added ability to make DVD-Audio disc image from flac or wav files. note: the tool that authors the dvd-a data may picky about wav files having standard headers. If wavs don't work, try flac files.
· fixed bug when using "shntool fix" to fix sector boundary errors on files with no file extension.
· fixed bug when converting files with no extension to SHN
· fixed bug in custom shntool len format when time was not last
· fixed bug that caused a crash when verifying md5 checksum file with invalid checksum format

What's new in xACT 2.12:

May 17th, 2011

· Fixed bug when decoding Apple Lossless files to wav/aiff.

What's new in xACT 2.11:

April 28th, 2011

· Fixed bug where splitting a file with a cue sheet could hang or crash the application (introduced in 2.10)

What's new in xACT 2.10:

April 27th, 2011

· fixed bug where splitting a file with a cue sheet could hang or crash the application
· fixed bug that caused a crash when converting multichannel (> 2 channel) flac files to aac and apple lossless

What's new in xACT 2.09:

March 29th, 2011

· Better Mac OS 10.5 compatibility

What's new in xACT 2.08:

March 29th, 2011

· should work (but not guaranteed to) in Mac OS X 10.5
· added "File types not supported by this tab" message
· added ability to convert from ape directly to flac (encode tab)
· added support for cd extraction from blu-ray drives on most machines
· fixed bug that could cause a crash when parsing "shntool len" output

What's new in xACT 2.07:

February 13th, 2011

· added aiff tags handling. aiff > flac will copy aiff tags. flac > aiff will copy flac tags
· handles comment lines starting with ";" now. previous versions assumed comments started with a "#" in md5 files.
· added warning when running a command with "delete original files" option
· added ability to remove pre-emphasis from wav or aiff files. note: xACT uses SoX for de-emphasis and SoX will only remove pre-emphasis from 44.1khz files.

What's new in xACT 2.06:

January 3rd, 2011

· fixed issue where converting .aif files to another format would output files with the .aif extension still in the name (.aif.mp3 for example).
· 96khz files can now be converted to AAC. They will be saved as 48khz aac files
· fixed bug where you couldn't md5 a non-audio file type. You can now make an md5 of any file
· fixed bug where text file could be in shntool tab's file list and cause crashes

What's new in xACT 2.05:

October 11th, 2010

· mp3 tags now written via TagLib instead of id3tool
· m4a tags now written via mp4v2 instead of AtomicParsley
· fixed bug when copying flac tags to mp3 and saving in different directory (non source directory)
· fixed bug when creating md5 while fixing files and outputting to SHN

What's new in xACT 2.04:

October 9th, 2010

· Added ability to parse an info text file for track names. From the "Track Name Input" window, select "Load Names From File…" from the edit menu and choose a text file. xACT will attempt to parse track names in the file. It looks for lines that start with some variation of a track number: 01 or [01] or (01) or [01.] etc. Note: this function is incomplete, very basic, and won't work for all cases. It will be improved in future versions.
· Should work with 32 bit processors.

What's new in xACT 2.03:

October 8th, 2010

· Fixed bug when md5 files had comments.

What's new in xACT 2.02:

October 4th, 2010

· fixed bug that could cause a crash when converting a very large number of files from shn to flac
· changed the way that md5 checksums are computed. This should lower memory consumption considerably.
· auto creation of md5 when converting to SHN should work correctly
· deleting source file when decoding .tta file should work correctly
· deleting source files when fixing sector boundary errors should work correctly

What's new in xACT 2.01:

October 2nd, 2010

· Fixed bug that didn't properly set the level when converting to VBR LAME mp3

What's new in xACT 2.0:

September 30th, 2010

· rewritten entirely from scratch in Objective C
· many bug fixes
· updated UI, new icons
· added auto-update via Sparkle
· multithreaded - can execute multiple tasks at once (see application preferences to set the number of threads). Dock icon will show number of tasks in queue.
· can cancel tasks already in progress
· progress bars for most tasks
· option to specify the format of custom "by disc" and "fileset" shntool len output text (see application preferences)
· tags tab can now tag FLAC and M4A (aac, Apple Lossless) files
· converting flac > Apple Lossless will now copy Flac tags to the Apple Lossless files
· splitting tracks from a CUE sheet will now rename tracks based on TITLE info in the cue sheet
· updated shntool to 3.0.10
· updated wavpack to 4.60.1
· updated ttaenc to 3.4.1
· updated cdda2wav to 3.0
· "fix" option will now process files even if they need no fixing
· user can drop a directory on a file list or dock icon to process all of the known file types in the directory and subdirectories
· added shntool "pad" and "strip" functions
· added ability to add or remove Flac Replay Gain (Util tab)
· added ability to trim characters from beginning or end of lines when entering track names
· Checksum files can be saved in source directory.
· Requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher and Intel processor

What's new in xACT 1.71:

December 30th, 2009

· "Checksum" tab opens automatically when .st5 files dropped on the dock/app icon.