Audio Conversion to the Max

There are quite a few apps in OS X that do a very decent job of converting/ripping audio to various formats, but few of them come as fully featured as Max by Stephen Booth. You might be thinking that iTunes contains everything one should need when converting audio, but Max really goes above and beyond what iTunes can do, and supports pretty much every audio format under the sun.

Max really is a powerful one-trick-pony, and that is precisely why I like it.

When ripping audio CDs Max offers some of the best tools in the business to ensure your music sounds exactly as it should in any format you choose. If some of your favorite CDs are badly damaged Max can use built-in comparison ripping for drives that cache audio, or the error correcting toolset from CD Paranoia. On some of my most damaged CDs I found Max to outperform virtually any other tool I have used previously, including of course iTunes.

But really what sets Max apart from the crowd is its ability to convert a list of tracks to multiple formats all at once. If you are producing audio for a number of different purposes this should be a real time saver. What’s more Max supports over 20 different flavours for your conversions including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.

For those of you with serious conversion needs Max also allows you controls for how many processes are used for encoding, more tweaks for error correction, and a full set of parameters for each of the encoders.

Now if all of this wasn’t reason enough reason to switch to Max, the fact that it is a free open source application should really cinch the deal. Surf on over to Stephen’s site and grab yourself a copy today.