If there is no SBE on a track, it deletes the track and doesn't convert it to FLAC.
that's just plain wrong. xact doesn't delete unless you tell it to delete the originals
Yes, that's true. If you don't tell it to delete original files, it will leave the original file, but not encode it. So, you need to figure out which files did not encode, and do those seperately.
What would be cool is if in xACT, you could encode to FLAC with an option to fix SBE's, which is a little different than fixing SBE's with an option to encode to FLAC, know what I mean? "I will encode all of these files to FLAC and fix any SBE's along the way" vs. "I will see if any of these files have SBE errors, and if any do, I will fix the SBE's, and any files I fix I will encode to FLAC."
I do not mean to rag on xACT at all.....it is definitely the best mac software I've found for all this computer music stuff.
on a pc, you split tracks and then encode to flac or shn, right? on the mac, you split tracks, and the encode to flac/shn can also fix sector boundary errors. the same 2 steps
As often as not, I split tracks and burn to CD. Not everything I tape gets torrented/traded, and I keep the master DAT as the backup, so I don't always encode. However, if Toast fixes SBE's on the fly, that's good to know.
I had this happen too. I wonder if it has anything to do with some sort of copy protection. In my case it seems like it cut off all tracks that were longer than 3 minutes right at 3 minutes.
Are you guys using fully licensed copies of Toast?
My copy was on the G4 when I bought it, I assume it's fully licensed. I'll check on that. I think I'll also try to burn the CD with I-tunes.
if i were to write a cdwav equivalent for the mac that outputted directly to flac (allowing the mac to do things in all of ONE step), would that make you happy?
It just might!
Say what you want about all the sound editors that can split tracks, that can't match the ease of a tool that is *made* for splitting tracks. it is by far the biggest gap between doing all this stuff on a PC and doing it on a Mac.
So, yeah, that would be wonderful! And even more wonderful to have the option to output as flac or aif/wav. (Doesn't anyone burn CDs anymore?)