Introduction

What is Max? Max is a digital audio extraction algorithm that allows for secure rips under the OS/X platform. It uses it's own built-in comparison ripper, along with error correcting power of cdparanoia. Max is released under the GPL license.

Features

Supports over 20 different audio codecs (AAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, WavPack, etc)
Integration with FreeDB permit automatic retrieval of compact disc information
Queing files for output to Itunes.
Threading control for encoding/decoding
Custom port of cdparanoia
Works in conjunction with Cog and Tag

Screenshots

General view screenshot of the application
General prefs screenshot of general preferences.
Format prefs screenshot of format preferences.

Development API

Building Max from source requires the XCode 2.3 tools from Apple, as well as the following packages compiled as frameworks:

cdparanoia (custom port)


cuetools
FLAC
Growl
LAME
libcddb
libmpcdec
libogg
libsndfile
libvorbis or aoTuV
MAC
mpeg4ip (only the mp4v2 library)
TagLib
Speex

WavPack

Frameworks

If you would rather not compile all these from source, you may download precompiled versions of the frameworks (2.36 MB). Unzip this archive into Max's source directory.

External links

Max official Max website
Cog official audio player
Tag official tagging editor