Topic: SHN/FLAC playback compression and decompression on a Mac?

[jpschust]

alright, ive looked for about an hour now and i bite- what do i use?

I'm obviously still in this transition from pc>mac.

I tried to install xACT but it keeps asking me for a password- so i put in my main password and it doesnt work... help?

J

[kennedy]

ask scott brown...i had the same problem with the password thing? did you copy it to applications before you installed?
jk

[RRobar]

Jonny,
are you putting in your main user password. All mac applications will ask for this.

[jpschust]

yah im putting in my main user password

[jpschust]

ok i got it, had to copy it to the apps dir.  now what about software for playback of shns and flacs in osx?

[greenone]

xmms is the only gapless option I'm aware of but I've never gotten around to installing it and/or getting it to work (http://www.etree.org/shnutils/xmms-shn/ for the shn plugin, http://packages.debian.org/stable/sound/xmms-flac for the flac plugin).

MaltX is what I use; the program's not made/supported anymore but my buddy has an archive of it here (http://arcticlounge.com/maltx/index.php).  Unfortunately it's not gapless playback, but it's good enough for me...

--Dave

[jpschust]

dave you da man- got it working with the shn and flac plugs

[RRobar]

Jonny,
 keep in mind this is how most mac apps work. Way simpler than windows. Unistalling is as easy as well. Just delete from apps.

[John Kelly]

Playback:  www.macamplite.com

I wish someone would write shn and flac plugins for iTunes...

[Chris K]

I wish someone would write shn and flac plugins for iTunes...

i second that emotion

[RRobar]

Playback:  www.macamplite.com

I wish someone would write shn and flac plugins for iTunes...

Would be cool. I've been converting stuff to ACC for the possibilty of getting a ipod sometime. This would save a step or 2 thats for sure.

[greenone]

dave you da man- got it working with the shn and flac plugs

Sweet! Are you running xmms or MaltX? If it's xmms and was that easy I may have to revisit xmms...  

[jpschust]

i was referring to macamp :-)