Handling weird audio formats on Mac OS

In my quest for the most bizarre music to be found on the intertubes, I've come across a number of odd container formats. The most vexing for a while was .APE, there was a windows program to handle it but the best it could do was convert the cd wholesale to .WAV format. The file languished on my filestore for quite some time until I found xACT on the mac. xACT is an applescript wrapper around some UNIX command line tools to handle audio files. The biggest upshot of it is that it can split APE files with a CUE file, and convert flac files to AIFF or WAV to be imported into other software that doesn't support flac. If you have a Mac and need to convert some audio files, give it a shot