Topic: SHN or Flac conversion using a MAC

[rasta_cruz]

hi, i'm sorry if this is in the wrong section. but, i figured the tapers would know this sort of thing.  i'm a taper who strictly has worked on a PC, but am trying to help out a newbie taper who has only worked on a MAC.  she has a neuros II recorder, and we've been trying to find some (hopefully free or cheap) software that will do track splitting on sector boundaries.  today we found that Sound Studio will do the splitting, but am not sure about the SBE thing.  or, is there a MAC tool like Shntool that will check and fix SBE's?  and, what should we use for SHN and Flac conversion, MD5's, FFP's, etc?  we really want to avoid running Virtual PC as we were having nothing but problems with it and CDWave.  i wish i knew a little more about MACs to figure out why.  if anyone can give me a step by step method to go from large, unsplit .wav files to shn or flac on a MAC, i'd really appreciate it.  i've been having a hard time finding the answers to all this stuff. 

blessings,
rasta

[Brian Skalinder]

Plenty of Mac FLAC apps out there, a handful listed here:

http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=18284.0

[greenone]

Sound Studio is super-easy for track splitting; for everything else, use xACT, but not on the link Brian gave - use the latest build from xact.fellowtraveler.org. Step-by-step after installing xACT and splitting the tracks:

- Click on the "fix SBE" tab and drop the files there.
- Choose FLAC and the compression level you want, click "Fix" and choose an output directory.
- Go make yourself a sandwich, have a beer...especially on level 8.
- Once your FLACs are done, batch rename 'em by dropping them on the "util" tab, hitting "Execute" and choosing a prefix (it'll put a two-digit number at the end of whatever you give it, so if you put in bandYYYY-MM-DDd1t, it'll give you bandYYYY-MM-DDd1t01.flac, bandYYYY-MM-DDd1t02.flac and so on).
- Click the "checksum" tab, drop your FLACs there, click the "Checksum" button and choose "Fingerprint".

Abracadabra alakazam, you've got yourself some fresh new fingerprinted FLACs that are free from sector boundary errors.

--Dave

[rasta_cruz]

Sound Studio is super-easy for track splitting; for everything else, use xACT, but not on the link Brian gave - use the latest build from xact.fellowtraveler.org. Step-by-step after installing xACT and splitting the tracks:

- Click on the "fix SBE" tab and drop the files there.
- Choose FLAC and the compression level you want, click "Fix" and choose an output directory.
- Go make yourself a sandwich, have a beer...especially on level 8.
- Once your FLACs are done, batch rename 'em by dropping them on the "util" tab, hitting "Execute" and choosing a prefix (it'll put a two-digit number at the end of whatever you give it, so if you put in bandYYYY-MM-DDd1t, it'll give you bandYYYY-MM-DDd1t01.flac, bandYYYY-MM-DDd1t02.flac and so on).
- Click the "checksum" tab, drop your FLACs there, click the "Checksum" button and choose "Fingerprint".

Abracadabra alakazam, you've got yourself some fresh new fingerprinted FLACs that are free from sector boundary errors.

--Dave

thanks brian and dave... that's some very helpful info right there.  xACTly what i was looking for

rasta

[Brian Skalinder]

for everything else, use xACT, but not on the link Brian gave - use the latest build from xact.fellowtraveler.org.

Thanks for the update, added it to the xACT reference I posted earlier.  FWIW, as far as I can tell, the above link hosts the same version as the previous one I referenced, 1.4b24.  Good to have both up there, especially since it looks like the one you reference will be the new "home" for xACT.

[greenone]

My bad Brian...I thought versiontracker still had 1.2 or 1.3.

[John Kelly]

My bad Brian...I thought versiontracker still had 1.2 or 1.3.

It's Etree that has the really old version.

[Krispy D]

etrees version is older than methusela.  I just ditched it for the version on version tracker...MUCH better.

[scb]

and they won't remove or update the etree link for me either.  so annoying...but i was told that the etree site is basically dead and won't be updated

[John Kelly]

and they won't remove or update the etree link for me either.  so annoying...but i was told that the etree site is basically dead and won't be updated

How hard is it for them to change a freaking link?  What a bunch of jerks over there...

[scb]

i don't think it has to do with them being jerks...i was told the wiki site is alive and the etree.org site is dead.  there's just no updates at all going on with that site

[John Kelly]

i don't think it has to do with them being jerks...i was told the wiki site is alive and the etree.org site is dead.  there's just no updates at all going on with that site

Well then they should take it down.  If not a simple URL change shouldn't be out of the question IMO. 

And yeah, maybe they're not jerks.  They're just lazy.