Soundshrinker
                                   by James Cook
                                 İHartech 1990-1991


WHAT IT DOES

Soundshrinker is a small application that converts sound files (not resources) 
to lower sampling rates by copying every 2nd, 3rd, or 4th sample to an output 
file. This results in a dramatic decrease in the amount of disk/memory space 
a sound occupies, with the tradeoff being a decrease in the quality of the 
sound. It's primary usage is to convert 22k sounds to 11k.


HOW TO DO IT

Launch Soundshrinker. Select "Open" from the file menu. Choose the input file.
Choose the output file. When the conversion dialog comes up, set an input rate
and an output rate (the program will attempt to figure the input rate by 
itself) Click convert. Click OK in the dialog telling you how many samples it 
will throw out. Then wait and watch the beautiful PROGRESS BAR as it converts. 
If it takes a second for the bar to appear, that's OK.

Listen to the sounds afterwards to decide if you can put up with the degraded
quality before deleting the original sounds. (Remember, Soundshrinker can't make 
sounds sound better!)

(Note: SoundShrinker only works on sounds with type 'FSSD'. If there is another 
type code it should work for, drop me a line and I'll write it in.)

INCLUDED FILES

Soundshrinker
	The one and only, featuring automatic rate extraction/setting, a progress
	bar, and a beautiful icon (with apologies to Fallaron & Raymond Lau)
SS Docs.txt
	This file.
SS Feature Wishes
	Some ideas I have for future versions.  More Postcards = More Features!


SHAREWARE PITCH

This software is "postcard-ware". If you like it, send me a pretty postcard.
If you don't like it, send me an ugly postcard telling me what you don't like
about it, and I'll try to fix it!  (E-mail is an acceptable substitute for a
postcard.  Don't bother sending me a GIF of your hometown, though :-)

If anyone sends money, I will use it to buy some real Mac programming books...
right now I'm using only Inside Mac, which is like trying to learn to write
by reading a dictionary.

James Cook                 Internet: jncook@ucsd.edu
8581 Sugarman Dr.
La Jolla, CA 92037
(619) 450-1930

Source code is available for $10. Includes commented Lightspeed Pascal source
showing how to do menus, dialogs, radio button groups, progress bars, file 
manager I/O, and resource extraction/creation. Also included are some of my 
favorite sound files.


SPECIAL "SUPPORT THE NET" DEAL

If you are on Internet, I'll mail you just the source FREE on the condition 
that you help me somehow to improve it. (Includes pointing out bugs/how to fix
them.  Does not include flames about lack of features/interface difficulties :)
Send mail to jncook@ucsd.edu with subject "SoundShrinker".


INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE

Remember...no matter where you go...there you are.
	-Buckaroo Banzai


VERSION HISTORY

1.2- 1/27/91 First wide release through Internet.

1.2-11/10/90 Recompiled under THINK Pascal 3.0.  Noticable increase in speed.

1.1- 8/12/90 Fixed bug in AddResource that added INFOs to the program file if no
             file.less existed. Added an About... box and improved progress bar
			 updates.  Removed several debug dialog boxes.

1.0-??/??/90 Added automatic resource rate identification and setting.  Added
             progress bar. Added icon. First general release.

0.9-??/??/90 In-house development version. Not released.