Handling Lossless Audio

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Essential Software

Mac

  • xACt
    Key features: Decoding/encoding FLAC/SHN, checksum, shntool frontend, fixing sector boundary errors (SBE), tagging, lossy compression, batch rename

Windows

  • AddaWav
    Key feature: Combining WAV files
  • CD Wave
    Key features: Creating/deleting split points in WAV (supports 24-bit and surround audio), splitting WAV, read/write CUE, encode FLAC/OGG/MP3
  • Trader's Little Helper
    Key features: Decoding/encoding APE/FLAC/SHN, checksum, fixing SBE, tagging, lossy compression, batch rename, torrent creation

Mac & Windows

  • Audacity
    Key feature: General audio editing
  • shntool
    Key features: Command line data processing and reporting utility for WAV files, with ability to handle other formats such as APE/FLAC (must install helper programs to do so)
  • FLAC
    Key features: Most common lossless audio compression format, with large repository of tools capable of handling the format
    For Mac, the easiest installation method is via Homebrew