CDmax is an Audio CD player for the Windows® operating system. It has
many features and is connected to the freedb CD library on the
Internet. From freedb you can download Artist/Title/Track information
about your disc collection, which is not stored on the typical Audio
CD.
01-26-2004
A Russian translation file is now available. Thanks go to Vadim.
12-26-2003
Another new translation file is available.
01-24-2003
A new release of CDmax has been posted, complete with a new Italian
language translation. Thanks go to Fabrizio
"Rush" Degni.
12-29-2002
Thanks to Dream Warrior for the Hungarian translation just posted.
Check the language files section.
12-24-2002
CDmax 2.0.2 is out. Various bugs fixes are included and some new
stuff as well. Also, a French translation has been posted.
Hope everyone has a blessed Christmas.
11-28-2002
A German translation of CDmax is now available. Thanks to Oliver
Ding for his hard work. Download it from the Language files
page.
11-14-2002
CDmax version 2 is out now! Hope you all like it. There
are some significant changes both externally and internally.
Much of the code base has been rewritten and in many ways it is far
more efficient than previous releases.
The drive manager now keeps up with the Artist/Title for all discs in your drives if you
have a multi-drive system and you can choose to disable certain drives
if you wish.
If you are a registered user and did not receive a new registration
code via email, please contact me. I have sent new codes to all of my
registered users, but there are some whose email addresses have changed.
Please send me your order number and your old email address as
verification.
10-24-2002
I have tried service pack 3 again on two of the failing machines
mentioned below and
it now works on one of them but not the other. Not sure what to
make of this.
09-30-2002
Windows 2000 service pack 3 breaks Audio CD auto-run based on my
experience on three different machines that I have tried it on. I
don't know if this intended behavior on Microsoft's part or not.
But this is not something wrong in CDmax, the operating system just
stops sending the Audio CD arrival notification after service pack 3 is
applied. Uninstalling back to service pack 2 restores the
function.
08-22-2001
A new version (1.8) is available now!
Two major items to note for this release.
- CDmax is changing status from freeware to shareware
- CDmax is changing from CDDB to freedb
Status change to shareware
CDmax has been available as freeware for more than 3 years. It
has a loyal following world wide that I'm very proud of. Many of
you have written thanking me for CDmax. Many have suggested that
I should be charging for it. I have considered this and now
seems a good time to start.
This release is not filled with nag screens or time-outs. I
don't like that approach. You are free to use CDmax,
however, if you like it, use it frequently, and can contribute to its
future development, please do so by registering your copy. It
would be appreciated.
You can register via secure server here.
Change from CDDB to freedb
I have been an ardent supporter of CDDB
since 1997. I have maintained my support publicly via email with
various individuals, and on my web-site as recently as a month ago.
Over the last month however, I have been evaluating CDmax, its future,
what I enjoy about working on it, and how it contributes to a
community of individuals. At the end of this process, I have
come to the conclusion that moving CDmax to the CDDB2 platform is not
the direction that I want to take.
freedb offers an alternative that I
think is a better fit for CDmax, both now and in the future. I
believe that freedb will support CDmax and its user community very
well. And I believe that we have opportunity to contribute to
freedb in a positive way. While the database is currently
smaller than CDDB, it is growing every day through user submissions.
And you can help in that process.
08-10-2001
Any Palm enthusiasts out there? Here is a link to a program
that you might be interested in : CD
List. It reads your CDmax local library and uploads it to your
Palm OS device.
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