What is Max?
Set 1: Download and install a copy of MusicBrainz. Download a copy of MusicBrainz Picard here. Picard is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Step 2: Configure the MusicBrainz settings to your liking. There are some settings you can choose to configure so that Picard acts in a way you'd like (naming conventions, default directory, etc). Official website for MusicBrainz Picard, a cross-platform music tagger written in Python. This library is a iOS library for MusicBrainz Web Service and will eventually develop into a Framework for OS X use as well. This library was created as part of Brandon LeBlanc's 2012 Google Summer of Code project. MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) application written in Python and is the official MusicBrainz tagger. MusicBrainz Picard is a cross-platform (Linux/ Mac. Official MusicBrainz tagger. Once Picard has been installed on your system, the next step is to configure it to your preferences. The configuration consists of enabling the desired screen sections for display, selecting the desired actions, and setting the various options.
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.
Max leverages open source components and the resources of macOS to provide extremely high-quality output. For example, MP3 encoding is accomplished with LAME, Ogg Vorbis encoding with libVorbis, 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).
Screenshots
Partial screenshots of the General preferences and Formats preferences are also available.
Download
The current stable version of Max is 0.9.1, released 29 August 2009.
Max-0.9.1.tar.bz2 (Universal Binary, 5.19 MB)
Max-0.9.1-source.tar.bz2 (Source Code, 10.96 MB)
The current unstable version of Max is 0.9.2b4, built on 18 September 2020.
Max-0.9.2b4.dmg (64-bit Intel, 6.6 MB)
Release Notes
You may view the release notes in HTML.
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Known Issues:
- Not all output formats are tagged with metadata
Requirements
Max 0.9.1 requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later.
The unstable version of Max requires Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) or later.
Help and Support
Need help with Max? The forums are a good place to look for answers to common questions.
Does Max not seem to be working properly? Submit your bug reports using the bug tracker.
Is something missing or does a feature need improvement? Submit your idea or feature request.
Contributing
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Would you like to contribute to Max? Willing people are needed to:
- Translate Max into other languages
- Become one of the developers
- Anything at all!
If you are interested please contact Stephen.
Developers
Building Max from source requires the Xcode tools from Apple.
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The Max source code repository is hosted on github.