Please read this entire "Read Me" file. It contains important information and tips that will enhance your experience with the Audio Help stack. The Audio Help stack contains the Audio Palette, which gives HyperCard® the ability to record new sounds and use them in your stacks.
CHANGES IN THE AUDIO HELP STACK
The following changes were made to the Audio Palette to make it work properly on newer Macintosh® models, including the Power Macintosh™ 7200, 7500, 8500, and 9500, and to make it conform to Apple's guidelines for sound input.
- The Audio Palette now records at the following qualities: Good (22 kHz, 6-to-1 compression), Better (22 kHz, 3-to-1 compression), and Best (22 kHz, no compression). This is a change from older versions of the Audio Palette, which recorded at Good and Best qualities and had a different idea of Good quality (11 kHz, no compression).
- There is now a one-to-one correspondence between compression and quality settings. "No compression" is synonymous with "Best quality," "3-to-1 compression" with "Better quality," and "6-to-1 compression" with "Good quality."
- You can still open and edit sounds recorded with the old Audio Palette at its "Good" quality. When you do this, the new Audio Palette displays the quality as "Other".
- From a script, you can still set the "speed" property of the Audio Palette to "11k". This will allow you to use the old "Good" quality. When you do this, the new Audio Palette displays the quality as "Other".
- The Audio Palette has a new property, "quality". From a script, you can set this property to "Good", "Better", or "Best".
- The documentation in the Audio Help stack has been updated to reflect the changes in the Audio Palette.
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