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xACT help
« on: March 22, 2024, 04:09:14 AM »
looking to help a friend track and tag some wavs from DATS
hes a mac user

many are 44.1K so it would be useful to have them be SBE compliant

is there an equivalent to CDwav for tracking? if not, does it work under wine?

seems that xACT is a must for tagging. are there any tutorials or screenshots for xACT?

im flying blind on support for him absent setting up macos in a docker

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Re: xACT help
« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2024, 09:54:17 AM »

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Re: xACT help
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2024, 01:47:28 PM »
I use Audacity to track. See this: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/splitting_a_recording_into_separate_tracks.html

Then xACT to convert those files to FLAC. This is pretty self-explanatory

You can also tag in xACT. The "load track names from file" feature (under the File menu) is useful here

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Re: xACT help
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2024, 06:24:00 PM »
^ second this.

I use Audacity for all slicing/dicing/outputting of lots of shows.
Audacity can directly output flacs, and can tag using edit:edit metadata.

xACT is great for FFPs, file name changing, and is an audio swiss army knife.
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Re: xACT help
« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2024, 06:37:13 PM »
Audacity can directly output flacs

TIL! Thanks for the heads up. I never even considered trying this

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Re: xACT help
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2024, 09:41:27 PM »
can you control the flac binary that xact uses? will likely be using an older version of audacity

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Re: xACT help
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Re: xACT help
« Reply #7 on: March 22, 2024, 11:43:39 PM »
can you control the flac binary that xact uses? will likely be using an older version of audacity

You likely could find an old xACT version, but why?
Flac is flac, doesn't matter what version of Audacity you use, xACT will work fine.
I just moved from Audacity 2.4.2 to 3.0, no issues w xACT.
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Re: xACT help
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2024, 09:49:34 AM »
oh that should have said Audacity, not xact, as in can an older version of audacity(when it was open-source) be told to use flac 1.4.3. i see xact already has current flac version

 

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