Max
Max is a free and open-source audio player and tag editor for macOS, built for users who care about audio quality and file organisation. It supports a wide range of lossless and lossy audio formats, provides extensive metadata editing and batch tagging, integrates with online music databases for album art and metadata lookup, and offers advanced playback features like gapless playback and ReplayGain normalisation. It is favoured by audiophiles, music archivists, and serious listeners who want fine-grained control over their music library without commercial lock-in.
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1 suggestionWe could not find definitive information about whether Max has been updated to run natively on Apple Silicon. The search results we gathered were not relevant to this specific app — they covered other unrelated topics. To determine the current status, contact the developer via the project's GitHub repository (search for "Max audio player macOS" or visit sbooth.org, which is associated with the bundle ID org.sbooth) and ask whether a native Apple Silicon build is available or planned. Since Rosetta 2 will be removed when Apple releases macOS 28 in September 2028, this is worth confirming sooner rather than later. If the project is no longer maintained, consider switching to Audirvana, Vox, or the open-source Cog audio player — all of which offer native Apple Silicon support and similar audio quality focus.
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