• Formats preference pane works correctly on Snow Leopard

New Features

• Metadata is now read from and written to WAVE and AIFF files
• Italian localization

Bug Fixes

• Album art downloading from Amazon works correctly
• Adding tracks to iTunes with non-numeric years works as expected

Encoder Components Updated

• LAME 3.98 for MP3
• Speex 1.2rc1 for Ogg (Speex)
• libsndfile 1.0.20 for PCM conversions

New Features
- Leopard compatibility
- Spanish localization
- Tracks can be split using external cue sheets or FLAC embedded cue sheets
- Improved MP3 decoding using MAD.

Bug Fixes
- 24-bit source file are now handled correctly on encoding .
- Encoding to WavPack no longer causes intermittent crashes.
- {trackTotal} is now correctly expanded for custom file naming.
- "Save encoder settings in comment" preference now sticks.
- FastTracker 2 encoding is now enabled.

New Features

Seekpoints are now added to FLAC files.

Bug Fixes

CDs now auto-eject correctly. [126, 117]

APE files are now handled correctly on conversion. [217]

Album Art is now correctly exported to files. [218]

FLAC files containing empty comments no longer cause Max to crash. [219]

FLAC files now contain valid MD5 checksums. [222]

Album art is now added correctly to FLAC files. [223]

FLAC-related bug fixes: album art, MD5 checksum, seek points.

APE decoding issue fixed.