If you are looking to have TIVO-like control over your favorite internet radio stations then we might have a solution for you. iRecordMusic is a internet audio recorder with support for realtime encoding to AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP3 (LAME) and FLAC. It also has the ability to schedule recordings using iCal which is one of […]

We recently came across an interesting lossless audio tool for MAC OS X users. The X Lossless Decoder (XLD) can encode, decode and play a variety of lossless audio formats.
Supported formats include:

Ogg) FLAC (.flac/.ogg)
Monkey’s Audio (.ape)
Wavpack (.wv)
TTA (.tta)
Apple Lossless (.m4a) [10.4 only]
AIFF, WAV, etc

Compatible with 10.3 and up XLD is actively developed and was recently […]

The folks over at Freeverse have released the latest version of there recording and editing software Sound Studio 3. This latest version adds much needed support for Apple Lossless as well as ADTS AAC, NeXT/Sun Audio and Ogg Vorbis. Also new to version 3.5 is a ID3 tag and iTunes metadata editor. Sound Studio […]

A new version of the Mac sound editor Amadeus has just been released for Mac OS X. Amadeus Pro V. 1.0 adds a host of new features including multi-track editing, faster editing of large (2GB+) files, analysis tools and last but not least the Favorite Actions tool. The Favorite Actions tool allows you to […]

The powerful audio toolkit Media Rage has been updated to a new version with a host of welcome features and bugfixes.
MediaRage 3 is the latest offering from Chaotic Software, purveyors of Mac OS X tools but best known for Media Rage.
This took kit features all of the wepons you need to battle your audio files […]

 
While I do have a old Bondi Blue Mac running Mac OS X 10.2 in our kitchen my knowledge of the Mac OS is limited. With many of our readers being Mac users I would like to be able to provide better coverage of the lossless tools and applications available to them. With this being […]

Version 0.7 has brought big improvements to this lossless audio application for the MAC OS X operating system. MAX can encode and decode to over 20 formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE which makes it a must have for any MAC users who need to convert their lossless […]

The interest in QuickTime plug-ins continues with QuickTime Pooch Exporter Plug-in. The first official release is available but is for MAC OS X 10.4 users only.
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This has been a big week for Mac users with the iPhone and the AppleTV being announced in a single day. Early reports show that both iTV and the iPhone support Apple Lossless but I haven’t been able to confirm that the iPhone supports Apple Lossless. The word is that the iPhone has all of […]

The popular lossless audio editor for MAC OS X has released version 1.1.
Changes Include:
- Now includes a Normalize command to normalize the volume of audio selections
- Native WAV support for opening and saving WAV files
- Added Save Selection command
- Supports looped playback
- Numerous interface enhancements and bug fixes
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We like software that is free, open source and supports lossless audio formats and so when we came across MPlayer we knew it was worth a closer look. Started in 2000, the development for MPlayer began with small group of developers and has grown from there. The first thing that caught my eye was […]

From the developers of the popular MAC OS X audio utilities Max, Tag and Cog comes a new MAC OS X audio player called Play. Development began on Friday Oct. 13th so I am personally watching this one closley but if it turns out to be anything like there previous offerings it will be worth […]

Rogue Amoeba has a new audio editor avalaible that is geared towards the lossless editing of audio files. This new project called Fission allows you to trim, split and edit your MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless, AIFF, etc. audio files with zero loss in quality. All of this is accomplished with an easy to use […]

According to an AAC developer, there is currently built-in FLAC audio support at the API audio layer in the new Mac OS X Leopard developer release. This new OS is expected to be released for the Mac in the Spring (Mac OS X 10.5). So any application should be able to read/playback FLAC files. This […]

For you MAC OS X users (10.4 and up), Cog is an interesting open source audio player with support for all major lossless formats. With many of the features that lossless audio junkies crave and the fact that it is actively being developed, Cog looks to be an potential alternative to iTunes.

Cog’s Supported Formats

Ogg Vorbis
Mp3
Flac
Musepack
Monkeys […]