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.
cause it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see supported devices) just like you would an MP3 f
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality.
Non-profit corporation dedicated to protecting the foundations of Internet multimedia from control by private interests. Includes implementation of codecs (flac/oggvorbis for Quicktime/Core Audio components)
Did a rewrite of this thing, reducing the filesize by about 70% and memory usage by alot. No GUI at the moment though so it's just an iR Shell plugin until I make up a nice interface.
Flake is an open-souce FLAC audio encoder. It was developed as an independent implementation of the FLAC specification, and is meant to be an alternative to the FLAC reference encoder. While Flake does not yet have many of the advanced features of the ref
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality.
Rockbox is a free software replacement for the firmware held on various forms of digital audio players (DAPs). Rockbox offers an alternative to the host device's operating system firmware (in many cases without removing the original firmware) which provid