You expressly acknowledge and agree that use of SoundApp is at your exclusive risk. SoundApp, any related files and documentation are provided “AS IS” and without any warranty of any kind, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
If you wish to include SoundApp on a CD-ROM as part of a freeware/shareware collection, Web browser or book, I ask that you send me a complimentary copy of the product to the address in the Notes topic of this dialog. Also, if you are interested in licensing all of or part of the SoundApp playback and conversion routines see the “Licensing” section of the Notes topic.
What Does It Need?
SoundApp requires at least System 7.0 and Sound Manager 3.1 or greater. In addition, QuickTime features require QuickTime 2.0 or greater. If you are having problems running SoundApp and especially if you are running System 7.5.2, upgrade to System 7.5.3. It fixes a large number of problems with memory allocation which can cause SoundApp to crash.
What Does It Do?
SoundApp can play or convert files dropped onto it into 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 µ-law), System 7 sound, QuickTime MooV (soundtracks only, including MIDI movies), Sun Audio AU and NeXT .snd (including µ-law, a-law, 8- and 16-bit linear, G.721 ADPCM and G.723 ADPCM), Windows™ WAVE (including GSM-, IMA- and MS ADPCM-compressed, µ-law and a-law), MPEG audio (layers I and II only, requires a Power Macintosh), Sound Blaster™ VOC, many varieties of MODs, ScreamTracker 3 module (S3M), MIDI (type 0, 1 and karaoke), 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 µ-law).
SoundApp can convert all of these formats to System 7 sound, sound suitcase, AIFF, WAVE and NeXT formats. SoundApp also supports QuickTime conversion, which allows any QuickTime-recognized format to be converted to a QuickTime movie file. This feature is provided as a convenience, as it is entirely handled via QuickTime.
SoundApp is distributed as a “fat” binary for native PowerPC and 680x0 usage. If you “strip” your copy of SoundApp to reduce storage requirements, please do not distribute it.
Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann from the Technische Universitaet Berlin for the GSM code,
Craig Marciniak for elucidating WAVE conversion,
Scott Lindsey for the Movie2Snd source code, and
everyone who has written with thanks and suggestions.
Portions of SoundApp’s MPEG audio support are based on maplay 1.2. The source for maplay can be obtained at <ftp://ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de/pub/incoming/maplay/>.
