Alternatives to Max?

[rexone]

Started receiving 'Max is not optimised for this Mac...' alerts.
Anyone have any suggestions for a reliable alternative? Don't care if it costs, just want something easy, robust & reliable.

 

[chabig]

What is “Max”? Is it a CD ripping app? If so, it hasn’t been updated since 2009! Why not iTunes?

 

[jbarley]

Started receiving 'Max is not optimised for this Mac...' alerts.
Anyone have any suggestions for a reliable alternative? Don't care if it costs, just want something easy, robust & reliable.

Little wonder about the warnings, appears Max hasn't been updated since 2009.
Some possible alternatives...
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14246/xact
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/48761/freac
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23430/x-lossless-decoder

 

[rexone]

What is “Max”? Is it a CD ripping app? If so, it hasn’t been updated since 2009! Why not iTunes?

It is primarily useful as an audio conversion app - MP3, FLAC etc to the .M4A files that iTunes likes.

 

[mikzn]

I use it all the time for converting flac files - just ignore the warnings - still works great on Mojave. I think it is just a standard warning about 32 bit softwares - I get the same warning for Microsoft Office 2011 ( excel, word, outlook)

 

[rexone]

Little wonder about the warnings, appears Max hasn't been updated since 2009.

Yes, I know but sheesh... when it works why swap? Shows how robust the build was though. !0-years later & how many iterations of the OS and it still works
Excellent, thank you, I'll have a look at those options & see what works for me.

 

[rexone]

I use it all the time for converting flac files - just ignore the warnings - still works great on Mojave. I think it is just a standard warning about 32 bit softwares - I get the same warning for Microsoft Office 2011 ( excel, word, outlook)

Yes, I don't reboot my iMac Pro that often so rarely get the alert & same here for Office '11.
Just thought it worth getting prepared as all it will take is an OS update & suddenly this stuff won't work anymore.
Might even have to invest in a newer version of Office (anything but 365...)

 

[Crash0veride]

I haven't found a great alternative. Max is great because it's so much more straightforward to use than other converters, imo. Been using it for a while as well.

It looks like someone is mildly regularly working on updating the project in a GitHub fork: https://github.com/marivera/Max/tree/modernization

Maybe something will come out of that, but I still can't get it to compile.

 

[mikzn]

Yes, I don't reboot my iMac Pro that often so rarely get the alert & same here for Office '11.
Just thought it worth getting prepared as all it will take is an OS update & suddenly this stuff won't work anymore.
Might even have to invest in a newer version of Office (anything but 365...)

Hard to find any app that does what Max does - good job by the developer - probably did not get a good ROI for the effort - but I will keep using it while on Mojave since it works well for now - that warning is just apple telling everyone to "Upgrade, Upgrade, Upgrade" - they don't make and money if there is no upgrade.

I did invest in office 2016 - but still use 2011 - I prefer 2011 and am comfortable with it - 2016 seems dumbed down and less configurable for outlook and I still prefer 2011 for excel - but am ready to go with 2016 - on hindsight I should have held off for 2019 - lol

Yeah anything but 365 . . .

 

[J.Gallardo]

I liked “Max” a lot... But then I started to use rare audio file formats and conversions.
XLD (X-Lossless-Decoder) is a real swiss-knife for audio. It reads & converts everything I’ve thrown at it (even VLC fails to read some audio formats).
Max interface is cleaner, easier, but XLD is a must.

 

[rexone]

I haven't found a great alternative. Max is great because it's so much more straightforward to use than other converters, imo. Been using it for a while as well.

Yes, once you have it set-up being able to just drag-&-drop reliably is what I need.