SoundApp is the premiere sound playback and conversion utility for the Macintosh. It is suitable for use as a sound-playing helper application with any of the popular WWW browsers, in addition to managing a collection of favorite sound samples and stand-alone usage. SoundApp remains freeware, so you may use it at no cost.
SoundApp can play or convert files dropped onto it in a variety of formats. In addition, it supports Play Lists which are lists of sound files that can be saved for later usage. Files in a Play List can be played or converted as a group or individually. SoundApp supports a randomized shuffle playback mode and repeated playback of Play Lists.
The following sound file formats are supported:
* SoundCap (including Huffman-compressed),
* SoundEdit (including stereo),
* AIFF, AIFF-C (MACE-3, MACE-6, IMA 4:1 and u-law),
* System 7 sound,
* QuickTime MooV (soundtracks only, including MIDI movies),
* Sun Audio AU and NeXT .snd (including u-law, a-law, 8- and 16-bit linear, G.721 and G.723 ADPCM),
* Windows WAVE (including GSM, IMA and MS ADPCM compressed, u-law and a-law),
* MPEG Audio (Layers I and II only, requires a Power Macintosh),
* Sound Blaster VOC,
* MIDI (type 0 and 1),
* many varieties of MODs,
* ScreamTracker modules 3 (S3M),
* Amiga IFF/8SVX (including compressed),
* Sound Designer II,
* IRCAM,
* PSION sound files,
* DVI ADPCM,
* Raw GSM,
* Studio Session Instruments and
* 'snd ' resources (including MACE-3, MACE-6, IMA 4:1 and u-law).
SoundApp can convert all of these formats to System 7 sound, sound suitcase, AIFF, WAVE and NeXT formats.
2.1.1 - July 12, 1996
* Corrected playback problem on 68K Macs.
2.1 - July 10, 1996
* Added support for the following formats:
- MIDI (type 0, 1 and karaoke) files using the AMP drivers and
- GSM-compressed WAVEs and raw GSM (".au.gsm") files.
* Incorporated new ZSS drivers,
* Files passed to open/play/convert via AppleScript can now be specified as strings,
* Added Name/Type column headers to Play List windows, implemented title click sorting like the Finder and added Sort sub-menu (sorting method is saved in Play List files and dragging items into a sorted list maintains sort order),
* Can now pause playback using the spacebar,
* Added ";"-key for stopping after the file that is currently being processed,
* Added floating button bar and a menu item to show and hide it,
* Play Lists now support continuous shift-selection with scrolling,
* The DOSify preference now allows underscores in the converted filenames,
* Fixed a bug which crashed after sending an quit AppleEvent while playing,
* Fixed a bug which would insert a very short click at the beginning of a WAVE output file,
* Fixed a bug while converting MPEG files with an internal CRC check which caused the conversion to fail,
* No longer write non-standard AIFF headers when converting,
* Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when two MOD files are played one after the other using the ZSS drivers,
* Removed some math calls which would prevent SoundApp from running with some old versions of MathLib on Power Macs.