Max Download ( KB)
License: Free
Downloads: 10777
Added: 20 Jan 2007
Updated: 11 Mar 2008
Developer: Stephen Booth(more)
Downloads: 10777
Added: 20 Jan 2007
Updated: 11 Mar 2008
Developer: Stephen Booth(more)
Max Publisher Description
When extracting audio from compact discs, Max offers the maximum in flexibility to ensure the true sound of your CD is faithfully extracted. For pristine discs, Max offers a high-speed ripper with no error correction. For damaged discs, Max can either use its built-in comparison ripper (for drives that cache audio) or the error-correcting power of cdparanoia.
Once the audio is extracted, Max can generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats including MP3, Ogg (Vorbis), FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.
If you would like to convert your audio from one format to another, Max can read and write audio files in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats at almost all sample rates and and in most sample sizes. For many popular formats the artist and album metadata is transferred seamlessly between the old and new files.
Max leverages open source components and the resources of Mac OS X to provide extremely high-quality output. For example, MP3 encoding is accomplished with LAME, Ogg Vorbis encoding with aoTuV, FLAC encoding with libFLAC, and AAC and Apple Lossless encoding with Core Audio. Many PCM conversions are also possible using Core Audio and libsndfile.
Max is integrated with MusicBrainz to permit automatic retrieval of compact disc information. For MP3, FLAC, Ogg (FLAC), Ogg (Vorbis), Monkey's Audio, WavPack, AAC and Apple Lossless files Max will write this metadata to the output.
Max allows full control over where output files are placed and what they are named. If desired, Max will even add the encoded files to your iTunes library in a playlist of your choice.
For advanced users, Max allows control over how many threads are used for encoding, what type of error correction is used for audio extraction, and what parameters are used for each of the various encoders.
Max is free software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
OS: PPC/Intel
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
Whats new:
Version 0.7.1: Before launching Max 0.7.1, run the Delete Preferences script included in the distribution.
New Features
Seekpoints are now added to FLAC files.
Bug Fixes
CDs now auto-eject correctly.
APE files are now handled correctly on conversion.
Album Art is now correctly exported to files.
FLAC files containing empty comments no longer cause Max to crash.
FLAC files now contain valid MD5 checksums.
Album art is now added correctly to FLAC files.
Software news
Thunderbird 2.0.0.18, the Safer Mozilla Mail Client
The Mozilla team has certainly been busy this week, updating both the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client: Firefox got the Fashion My Firefox app, and Thunderbird was updated to version 2.0.0.18 The update is meant to address some security issues with the application, but I am glad to report that none of them have been deemed critical (this is the highest risk rating that Mozilla gives a security vulnerability)....
The Mozilla team has certainly been busy this week, updating both the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client: Firefox got the Fashion My Firefox app, and Thunderbird was updated to version 2.0.0.18 The update is meant to address some security issues with the application, but I am glad to report that none of them have been deemed critical (this is the highest risk rating that Mozilla gives a security vulnerability)....
20 Nov 2008
Ubuntu 8.10 Muslim Edition Launches, Waiting for the Jaunty Jackalope
Ubuntu 8.10 fans that want to get a Muslim specific version of the software can now do so because UbuntuME (ME stands for Muslim Edition) is available for download in the form of an installable DVD....
Ubuntu 8.10 fans that want to get a Muslim specific version of the software can now do so because UbuntuME (ME stands for Muslim Edition) is available for download in the form of an installable DVD....
20 Nov 2008
Lengthy Boot Time Vista Issues Taken to Court
The interesting thing is that it is not Microsoft that is in trouble, but the companies that use the Windows Vista operating system on their employees’ machines. It turns out that the employees of said companies spend prolonged amounts of time just waiting for the OS to boot and shut down; this has lead them to ask for overtime; when the companies refused to pay for overtime, the employees sued....
The interesting thing is that it is not Microsoft that is in trouble, but the companies that use the Windows Vista operating system on their employees’ machines. It turns out that the employees of said companies spend prolonged amounts of time just waiting for the OS to boot and shut down; this has lead them to ask for overtime; when the companies refused to pay for overtime, the employees sued....
20 Nov 2008
Internet Explorer 8 RC1 for PCs in 2009, Troubled IE 6 for Smartphone Users
Now that the second Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 has been out for almost two months and that support for the software has been extended until the end of the year, Microsoft has come out and announced what it plans to do with its browser in 2009....
Now that the second Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 has been out for almost two months and that support for the software has been extended until the end of the year, Microsoft has come out and announced what it plans to do with its browser in 2009....
20 Nov 2008
Moonlight Beta, the Microsoft Flash equivalent for Linux users
Microsoft is really not taking it easy at all on Adobe and their Flash player. Proof of that are the recent announcements that 2009 will debut with a third installment of Silverlight, and that Microsoft will continue its collaboration with Novell in order to further develop an open-source Silverlight equivalent that can be used by users running the Firefox browser on their Linux powered machines....
Microsoft is really not taking it easy at all on Adobe and their Flash player. Proof of that are the recent announcements that 2009 will debut with a third installment of Silverlight, and that Microsoft will continue its collaboration with Novell in order to further develop an open-source Silverlight equivalent that can be used by users running the Firefox browser on their Linux powered machines....
20 Nov 2008
Gmail Themes, Google Gives its Mail Client a Facelift
The days when you had to rely on your own programming skills to come up with a Gmail skin are now over, we are glad to report. Google has made some minor changes to its Gmail client (small color changes and pixel shifts) and it also added a cool new feature, Gmail Themes....
The days when you had to rely on your own programming skills to come up with a Gmail skin are now over, we are glad to report. Google has made some minor changes to its Gmail client (small color changes and pixel shifts) and it also added a cool new feature, Gmail Themes....
20 Nov 2008
Mac OS X in the Crosshairs of another Trojan
Mac OS X systems from Apple, besides being some of the most efficient operating systems around are also considered to be very safe. Even though this operating system is pretty much bulletproof, there are some Trojans out there, such as the OSX.Lamzev.A, that try to break through the defenses and infect the system....
Mac OS X systems from Apple, besides being some of the most efficient operating systems around are also considered to be very safe. Even though this operating system is pretty much bulletproof, there are some Trojans out there, such as the OSX.Lamzev.A, that try to break through the defenses and infect the system....
20 Nov 2008
Silverlight 3, the Future of Flash Extermination
The final version of Silverlight 2, or the Flash killer as some like to call it, was made available to the general public a little over a month ago, on the 14th of October to be more precise. Microsoft is now planning another Silverlight release, Silverlight 3, which is due to come out some time next year....
The final version of Silverlight 2, or the Flash killer as some like to call it, was made available to the general public a little over a month ago, on the 14th of October to be more precise. Microsoft is now planning another Silverlight release, Silverlight 3, which is due to come out some time next year....
20 Nov 2008
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