xACT Alternatives

xACT is described as 'Stands for X Audio Compression Toolkit. It is a GUI based front end for the Unix applications Shorten (3.6.1), shntool (3.0.10), monkey's audio compressor (3.99), flac (1.2.1), wavpack (4.60.1), TTA (3.4.1) and cdda2wav 3.0 (with paranoia support). It also uses sox ( 14' and is an app. There are eight alternatives to xACT for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Android and Android Tablet apps. The best xACT alternative is fre:ac, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like xACT are X Lossless Decoder, LameXP, Switch and CDDA paranoia.

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  1. fre:ac icon
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    fre:ac is a free audio converter and CD ripper with support for various formats and codecs. It will convert between MP3, MP4/M4A, FLAC, Vorbis, Opus, AAC, WAV, WMA and other formats.

    115 fre:ac alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
    • Haiku
     
  2. X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.3 and later. Supports: (Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.

    31 X Lossless Decoder alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
     
  3. LameXP icon
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    LameXP is an Audio Encoder Front-End, a graphical user-interface for a number of audio encoders. It was developed to support a huge number of input formats. File formats are detected reliably using MediaInfo.

    50 LameXP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Switch icon
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    Switch Audio and Mp3 Converter can convert mp3, wav, wma or 40 other audio file formats to the format of your choice in just 3 easy, simple steps. Just add the files you want to convert, select the format you want, and then click 'Convert'.

    66 Switch alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Kindle Fire
     
  5. CDDA paranoia icon
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    Audio CD digital audio extraction application cdparanoia. Cdparanoia extracts audio from compact discs directly as data, with no analog step between, and writes the data to a file or pipe in WAV, AIFC, AIFC or raw 16 bit linear PCM.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  6. Elegant Converter is a native macOS app that helps quickly convert multiple audio and videos files to many formats.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
     
  7. Multi frontend is a Windows GUI (grafical user interface) for the following console audio encoders/decoders: BladeEnc, FAAC and FAAD, Fraunhofer Fastenc and MP3Enc, Gogo-no-coda, LAME, MAD, Mpadec, MusePack, NEncode, Ogg Vorbis, Psytel aacenc and fastenc, QuickTime MPEG-4...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. BootTunes icon
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    Imports live recordings downloaded from sites like etree (etree.org), Dimeadozen (dimeadozen.org), and The Trader's Den (tradersden.org) into iTunes, converting the source FLAC or SHN files into ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), automatically tagging the files, and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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