Mac OS Sound

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Contents

• New Features of Sound Manager 3.3
• General
• The Ability to Schedule Sounds
• New Sound Commands
• Multi-platform Support
• The Issue of "Endianness"
• Sound Formats
• A New Sound Codec Included: a-Law Compression
• New Sample Sizes Supported: 24 and 32 Bit Integer
• New Codecs to Import & Export Samples
• New Functions Added to the SoundConverter Suite
• New Sound Info Selectors Created
• Interface Changes
• Features of Sound Manager 3.1 and 3.2.1
• Pre-mixer Effects
• Native PowerPC Code
• Three New Audio Codecs Added
• Playing Alert Sounds Asynchronously
• Using the Sound Manager
• Determining the Sound Manager Version
• Converting Between Sound Formats
• The Process of Converting a Sound
• An Example of Converting a Buffer of Silence to IMA 4:1
• Scheduling Two Sounds with the Sound Clock
• Converting to 32-bit Little Endian Data
• A List of Audio Atoms
• Using the SoundLib Shared library (PowerPC Only)
• Sound Commands
• clockComponentCmd
• getClockComponentCmd
• scheduledSoundCmd
• linkSoundComponentsCmd
• rateMultiplierCmd
• Sound Informational Selectors
• siHardwareBusy
• siHardwareFormat
• siHardwareMute
• siHardwareVolume
• siPreMixerSoundComponent
• siSetupCDAudio
• Sound Manager Routines
• SndGetInfo and SndSetInfo
• ParseAIFFHeader
• ParseSndHeader
• GetCompressionInfo
• Example Extended Common Chunk
• Example Compressed Sound Header
• GetCompressionName
• SoundConverterGetBufferSizes
• SoundConverterBeginConversion
• SoundConverterConvertBuffer
• SoundConverterEndConversion

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