sorry, missed this thread. woops
Do flac tags not move over to LAME mp3 tags now? I forget. I know they didn't when I first put LAME mp3 encoding in. But when I added AAC encoding (with flac tags in the aac files), I may have also made the LAME mp3 encoding do the right thing with FLAC tags. I think I did. I'm at work on an XP machine now, though, so I can't verify
By the way, I put in the AAC encoding so I could use Quicktime's VBR aac encoding. It's pretty nice, and I use it over LAME now.
I've traded emails with Scott also about some feature enhancements that would be nice. Of course I can't find them at the moment :yawn: ... there's also an xact-users mailing list on yahoo.
Do you remember what you wanted? I have gotten a bunch of requests for little things, but haven't done much. Some requests seem like small things, but actually require a lot of effort. Others are small and do-able, but I just haven't gotten around to it. Work has been busy, so getting home and doing more coding is sometimes the last thing I want to do. But if you have a request that would definitely be useful and wouldn't take too much time to do, I'll look into it. I think i'm up to version 1.71 or something at home on my machine. I guess I should make these latest ones available
1.69 is the latest: http://satellite.epix.net/~scb/stuff/test/xACT%201.69.zip
Weird thing about xACT, I have never noticed that the FLAC tagger works at all?! Shouldn't it change the modification date/time if it's doing something? I use TAG and it changes the mod date/time every time I save a change to tags.
I like the SAVE TO ORIGINAL DIRECTORY option on the new version. That will save me many a click!
It does change the time. The one difference about the tagging tag is that you actually have to select the files to add tags. In every other tab, you just add files and tell the app to do it's thing: encode, decode, run shntool commands, fix, etc. But in the flac tag tab, you add the files, then select the file(s) you want to add tags to (click the filename in the file list).
Also, I think I added a "save to source directory" a while back (maybe 1.65?). It was when I put in a warning when you chose "delete original files."
Note to any PPC users: my girlfriend's iBook is on its last legs, and that's the only PPC machine I have access to to compile anything. So I might not be able to keep updating certain command line tools as they are updated. I don't really think this will be an issue, though, since the underlying tools are rarely updated anyway (and if they are, there haven't been "major" updates in a while).