xACT (short for X Audio Compression Toolkit) is a free software audio utility for Mac OS X. It handles compression and decompression between various lossless audio formats, secure CD ripping, and is a graphical interface for the Unix applications Shorten, shntool, Monkey's Audio, FLAC, and cdda2wav.
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“Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that to compress it further can only make it more obscure?”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)