Environment: Needs System 7 and Apple Events. Uses Speech Manager if present (will select Boris [can change by hacking a STR# resource] if present).
What is it: Primarily a small memory background µ-law sound player for both Sun µ-law and headerless µ-law files. Uses a custom double buffering technique to play arbitrarily large files continuously from disk. (It can also play linear format files.)
It relies on other applications being multitasking friendly to give a continuous sound output. Future plans are to overcome this minor deficiency.
Sounds can be fastforwarded; reversed and sped-up; paused and looped. Clicking within the progress bar skips to that portion of the sound. There are some keyboard equivalents but I won't tell you what they are.
Usage: Any number of files can be dragged and dropped onto the application icon and SoundMachine will queue and play every file. For help on how to drive SoundMachine use Balloon Help.
It is freeware to educational and research institutions. Use Resedit to hack some performance parameters.
Information desired:
I'll programme Soundmachine support any sound format if you'll provide the format details.
