Mac OS X | Audio / Video | Converters | Sbooth Max | Price is right but a little bit unfinished

Sbooth Max

Create high-quality audio files in various formats.

Version: 0.9.1

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Price is right but a little bit unfinished

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Contributed by: decadence Wednesday, December 26 2007 @ 10:46 AM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

Max is great - so many codecs - doesn't crash my computer. But the tagging is a mess in comparison to iTunes.

A really pity as the author seems to be a very good coder and is extremely generous creating three high quality freeware audio applications (Play and Tags). I'd rather he charged something and finished up tagging with an option to pull in the iTunes tagging.

After hunting around, I recommend anyone looking for properly tagged Lame encoded MP3's use iTunes-Lame Encoder (now on Google code and open source after Alcor also lost interest).

I have also used/tested Audion (PPC only, also dead) and XLD-GUI (absolutely toxic).

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Updates few and far between - bdkennedy1

This is really good software, errrr.... was good software if you're now using Leopard. Because of bugs, the software is useless on Leopard.

The problem is that updates to the software are way too few and far between. The last time Max was updated was in January, 2007. Leopard has been out for 4 months and still no sign of an update to Max. Just in-progress unstable versions.

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