MacOS Software List (Updated 5/5/2017)

[UltraNEO*]

soundforge, paint.net, vegas pro?

None of these are mac software - these are all windows-only.

For Audio editors, you've missed few.
...though they're more DWA's and inline with Cubase


Title: Logic Express
Company: Apple
System: Mac Only
Type: Digital Audio Workstation (DWA)
Web link: http://www.apple.com/logicexpress/
Price range: $199
Trial version? No

Title: Logic Studio
Company: Apple
System: Mac Only
Type: Digital Audio Workstation (DWA)
Web link: http://www.apple.com/logicstudio/
Price range: $499
Trial version? Yes

and

Title: ProTools M-Audio / LE / HD
Company: Digidesign
System: Mac/Windows
Type: Digital Audio Workstation (DWA)
Web link: http://www.digidesign.com/
Price range: $299 and up
Trial version? No

[megaman917]

Audio
Title: Soundtrack Pro
Company: Apple
System: Macintosh
Web link: http://www.apple.com/soundtrackpro/
Price range: Over $1000
Trial version? No

Effects
Title: Motion
Company: Apple
System: Macintosh
Web link: http://www.apple.com/motion/
Price range: Over $1000
Trial version? No

*Note: Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, and Motion are all packaged together as Final Cut Studio. So if you shell out the money for it, you get all 3 along with DVD Studio Pro and a couple of other programs.

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Mac the Ripper is essentially dead & buried. The Intel version has been an alpha and closed off to forum donators only for years now. Here's what we're left with:
http://thelittleappfactory.com/ripit/ (payware, $24.95)
http://www.macdvdripperpro.com/ (payware, $9.95)
http://www.metakine.com/products/fairmount/ (free, uses VLC's libdvdcss to rip)

Here's a neat audio editor that can actually do lossless editing ops on mp3 and aac, haven't seen anything else like it:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/ (32 bux)

For encoding, since x264 cli has libavcodec input and presets now, you really only need
$ port install ffmpeg-devel x264
Macports has a history of glacial package updates, but it's still better than the annual-at-best release cycle you get with Handbrake.

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Here's a neat audio editor that can actually do lossless editing ops on mp3 and aac, haven't seen anything else like it:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/ (32 bux)

ya missed one; "Audio Hi-Jack"
.. This little puppy allows you to Record from Anything .. ANYTHING! ..

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Here's a neat audio editor that can actually do lossless editing ops on mp3 and aac, haven't seen anything else like it:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/ (32 bux)

ya missed one; "Audio Hi-Jack"
.. This little puppy allows you to Record from Anything .. ANYTHING! ..

Yeah, I've used that before for recording Skype. But it lacks the awesome gimmick of lossless mp3/aac editing that Fission has, that's the part I've never seen in any other audio editor.

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Here's a neat audio editor that can actually do lossless editing ops on mp3 and aac, haven't seen anything else like it:
http://www.rogueamoeba.com/fission/ (32 bux)

ya missed one; "Audio Hi-Jack"
.. This little puppy allows you to Record from Anything .. ANYTHING! ..

Yeah, I've used that before for recording Skype. But it lacks the awesome gimmick of lossless mp3/aac editing that Fission has, that's the part I've never seen in any other audio editor.

.. can we bribe someone to fix this little error? ( hint hint )

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.. can we bribe someone to fix this little error? ( hint hint )

what?

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well .. wishfull thinking .. maybe??

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well .. wishfull thinking .. maybe??

I don't understand what error you are talking about.

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"it lacks the awesome gimmick of lossless mp3/aac editing that Fission has"