Mac OS Sound

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Sound Formats

The new extended precision formats (24- and 32-bit integers and 32- and 64-bit floats) supported by Apple Computer also support both big and little endian format. The Apple sound components will assume big endian format, unless otherwise configured using the siDecompressionParams or siCompressionParams selector. Decompression components should always output native format, and default to big endian for their input. Compression components should default to big endian format for output, and consume native endian for input.

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


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