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Max
Max 0.5.5
Developed by	Stephen F. Booth
Initial release	?
Stable release	0.8.1  (2008-04-30) +/−
Preview release	none  (n/a) +/−
Written in	?
OS	Mac OS X 10.4+
Available in	?
Type	CD ripper
License	GPL
Website	http://sbooth.org/Max/

Max is a free software CD ripper and audio transcoder for Mac OS X.

Internals

Max utilizes cdparanoia for ripping, and, in addition to individual codec libraries, it takes advantage of Core Audio, the libsndfile library, and the TagLib library to support ripping to and encoding between over 20 different lossless and lossy formats and editing their metadata. It also supports MusicBrainz and the Growl notification system.

Features

Audio formats

Built-in

• FLAC
• MP3 — via LAME
• Ogg Vorbis
• Speex
• WavPack

Core Audio

• AAC ADTS
• AIFC
• AIFF
• CAF
• MPEG-4 Audio
  • Apple Lossless
  • .m4a
• AU
• Sound Designer II (.sd2)
• WAV

libsndfile

• AIFF
• AU
• AVR
• CAF
• HTK
• IFF AIFF, SVX8/SVX16

Official Website

Free software portal

• sbooth.org

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