Max
| Developer(s) | Stephen |
| Release information | |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 0.6.1 |
| Preview release | 0.6 |
| Compatibility | |
| Operating system | Mac OS/X |
| Additional information | |
| Use | Digital Audio Extraction |
| License | GPL |
| Website | http://sbooth.org/max |
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
Correction mechanism
Max correction mechanism is quite similiar to Rubyripper. The algorithm uses a comparison feature in order to determine how many times Max should rip and compare sections (maximum retries). It is done on a sector-by-sector basis, rather then byte-by-byte basis. Max can additionally generate a SHA-256 checksum for each additional section in order to more accuratly determine dissimiliarities in a rip. Max differs in that it does not have a direct reliance on cdparanoia for extraction, but instead uses C2 error pointers very similiar to EAC.
Screenshots
- General view screenshot of the application
- General prefs screenshot of general preferences.
- Format prefs screenshot of format preferences.
Known Bugs
- Automatic disc ejection does not always work
- Errors occur reading the TOC for some discs
- Not all output formats are tagged with metadata
- FLAC cuesheets are not handled on conversion
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.