Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.
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 can even split a single audio file into multiple tracks using a cue sheet.
What’s new:
Version 0.8.1:
New Features:
* Metadata is now read from and written to Ogg Speex files.
* Added Command-D as a shortcut for downloading album art.
Bug Fixes:
* 24-bit source files are now handled correctly on both Intel and PPC Macs.
* The .oga extension is now recognized for Ogg FLAC files.
* Leopard compatibility
* Spanish localization
* Tracks can be split using external cue sheets or FLAC embedded cue sheets
* Improved MP3 decoding using MAD.
Bug Fixes
* 24-bit source file are now handled correctly on encoding .
* Encoding to WavPack no longer causes intermittent crashes.
* {trackTotal} is now correctly expanded for custom file naming.
* “Save encoder settings in comment” preference now sticks.
* FastTracker 2 encoding is now enabled.
