Version History 2.0, April 1, 1996. • Completely rewritten in C++ using Metrowerks CodeWarrior and PowerPlant as a fat binary for native PowerPC performance, • Support for multiple Play Lists with full drag and drop support, including drag conversion to the Finder, • Improved Status window that contains more information and a progress indicator, • Added support for the following formats:  ◊ IMA 4:1 and µ-law in AIFF/AIFC, 'snd ' resources and QuickTime movies,  ◊ IMA 4:1, µ-law and a-law in WAVE files,  ◊ IRCAM,  ◊ MPEG audio layers I and II on PowerPC computers, and  ◊ ScreamTracker 3 (S3M) files using the ZSS driver. • Conversion of QuickTime movies without an intermediate file, • Conversion options to force mono/stereo and 8-/16-bit output and to “DOSify” output filenames, • Revamped Preferences dialog, • Enhanced AppleScript support for playback and conversion, • Rewrote the Help text, and • Created a better-looking application icon. 2.0.1, April 26, 1996. • Fixed a problem with the playback of mono IMA WAVE files, • Fixed a problem which may crash due to a bug in the Apple’s Sound Manager header, • Fixed a problem playing very short files using double buffering. 2.0.2, April 29, 1996. • Corrected build problem which caused 2.0.1 to crash frequently. 2.0.3, June 11, 1996. • Corrected a length problem with some odd WAVE files, • Uses the “applFont” instead of “geneva” to permit localization, • Dragging a file onto the SoundApp icon with a Play List open no longer adds the file to the list, • SoundApp now maintains looping and base note information when converting between AIFF and 'snd ' resources, including System 7 sound files, • MPEG playback now no longer causes jerky mouse movement, • Mono MPEG files now play at the proper speed, • Closing the Status window via AppleScript no longer crashes. 2.1, July 10, 1996. • Added support for the following formats:  ◊ MIDI (type 0, 1 and karaoke) files using the AMP drivers and  ◊ GSM-compressed WAVEs and raw GSM (“.au.gsm”) files. • Incorporated new ZSS drivers, • Files passed to open/play/convert via AppleScript can now be specified as strings, • Added Name/Type column headers to Play List windows, implemented title click sorting like the Finder and added Sort sub-menu (sorting method is saved in Play List files and dragging items into a sorted list maintains sort order), • Can now pause playback using the spacebar, • Added “;”-key for stopping after the file that is currently being processed, • Added floating button bar and a menu item to show and hide it, • Play Lists now support continuous shift-selection with scrolling, • The DOSify preference now allows underscores in the converted filenames, • Fixed a bug which crashed after sending an quit AppleEvent while playing, • Fixed a bug which would insert a very short click at the beginning of a WAVE output file, • Fixed a bug while converting MPEG files with an internal CRC check which caused the conversion to fail, • No longer write non-standard AIFF headers when converting, • Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when two MOD files are played one after the other using the ZSS drivers, • Removed some math calls which would prevent SoundApp from running with some old versions of MathLib on Power Macs. 2.1.1, July 12, 1996. • Corrected playback problem on 68K Macs. 2.2, December 3, 1996. • Added a new Convert menu to group all the convert output options, added the capability to save conversion preferences as a named configuration, added an editor for saved sets, and removed all output format related options from the Convert preferences pane, • Added Sound Designer and direct QuickTime output formats, • Added support for MACE-3 and MACE-6 compression in SoundEdit files, • Added support for AIFF and 'snd ' files explicitly encoded with the 'twos' and 'raw ' codecs, • Re-wrote the MIDI code from scratch and added OMS support and a new MIDI Preferences pane, • Included new ZSS drivers with MTM support, • Added Script menu which lists the scripts in a “Script Menu Items” folder, • The volume preference is now relative to the system volume, thus will have no effect on other applications’ volume, and can now go from 10% to 150%, • Fixed sample rate specification with AIFF files due to an incompatibility with CodeWarrior and extended floating point numbers, • Fixed a bug which could cause a hang while playing MED/OctaMED files with the ZSS driver set as preferred, • Fixed a problem which caused some files to be left open when dragged to the Play List, • Now properly calculates the length of MPEG Layer I files, • Removed two-byte click at the beginning of converted System 7 sound files, • Added Info window to provide more information on a sound file, • Added extensive AppleScript support, • Added a “SoundApp Home Page” to the Help menu if Internet Config is installed, • Conversion of suitcases or MOD files now places the sounds in a sub-folder, • ADPCM file playback is now no longer affected by the “Play a/µ-law as 8-Bit” or the “Convert a/µ-law as 8-Bit” preference, • Upgraded to CodeWarrior 10. 2.2.1, December 5, 1996. • Corrected a problem upgrading the preferences file from 2.1.1 to 2.2, which would result in a corrupted file. If you used version 2.2, you’ll need to reset your preferences. 2.2.2, December 12, 1996. • Conversion downsampling from 44.1 or 48 kHz to a lower rate (e.g., 32 kHz) no longer produces slight clicks, • Playback of MIDI files using OMS now uses the proper selected device, • Work around a bug in QuickTime 2.1 which prevented many MIDI files from playing, • Fixed a bug which prevented MOD conversion on 680x0 Macs, • Fixed a bug which caused random shuffling of Play Lists to not be very random. 2.2.3, February 26, 1997. • SoundApp no longer gets confused if the Controls Palette is closed while playing a file from a Play List, • Made another attempt to allow SoundApp to work without a PowerPC-native AppleScript, • Corrected two AppleScript dictionary problems (one which prevented conversion to a specific format type and another which prevented saving a Play List to a specified file), • If SoundApp is in the midst of playing some sounds and a folder is dropped onto SoundApp, the sound files contained therein will now be added to the playback queue, • Cleaned up internal memory management and fixed some issues with drag and drop in Play Lists, • Significantly speeded up the sorting of Play Lists. 2.3, April 26, 1997. • Added support for the following formats:   ◊ MPEG audio layer III (for computers with a PowerPC processor),   ◊ uncompressed stereo Amiga IFF/8SVX files. • Partially corrupt MPEG files will now skip over the corrupt frames, • Added new preferences to copy files when dragged from a Play List and to append the “.type” suffix to output filenames, • Fixed a bug which would cause a crash when using AppleScript to get info on an invalid file, • Fixed a bug in the conversion to WAVE and AIFF files, • Using the space bar to pause play back now updates the Controls Palette, • Added AppleScript commands to get and set the playback volume, • Fixed a minor Play List button highlight problem, • QuickTime soundtracks with non-standard time bases are now dealt with properly, • Closing an empty Play List will not ask whether to save, • Fixed a bug which could crash while attempting to drag an item from a sorted Play List to itself, • Now better deals with file systems which are too slow to keep up with playback, • Added Q&A topic to the Help window to address some frequently asked questions concerning SoundApp. 2.3.1, May 7, 1997. • Fixed a small preference problem which prevented conversion from working unless a version 2.2.3 preferences file existed, • Improved MPEG playback stability and made decompression more responsive, • Converting to AIFF, System 7 or QuickTime IMA now no longer introduces a low frequency buzz. 2.4, August 11, 1997. • Added support for the following formats:   ◊ stereo Fibonacci-delta compressed Amiga IFF files,   ◊ original Sound Designer files,   ◊ SoundEdit 16 SWE/Shockwave MPEG Layer III files with their weird, non-standard headers,   ◊ MPEG-2 Layer III files,   ◊ 24- and 32-bit PCM-encoded Sun Audio, NeXT and AIFF files,   ◊ 32- and 64-bit floating point-encoded Sun Audio and NeXT files,   ◊ 32-bit PCM-encoded WAVE files, and   ◊ 32-bit floating point-encoded IRCAM files. • Added support for conversion to:   ◊ MACE-3 and MACE-6 encodings in AIFF, System 7 sound files and QuickTime files,   ◊ PSION sound files, and   ◊ a-law in WAVE and AU files. • Incorporated the new Amp MPEG Layer III playback code for increased performance and support for MPEG-2 Layer III files, • QuickTime files with multiple sound tracks are now converted properly, • Enhanced SoundApp’s AppleScript support:   ◊ Added a current file AppleScript property to the application,   ◊ Added a fetch information verb to return information about a sound file on disk and renamed the get information verb to display information for clarity,   ◊ Added a send oms data AppleEvent to send MIDI data to an OMS synthesizer, and   ◊ Added start at and stop at parameters to play and convert to process portions of a sound file. • Completely re-did the Preferences dialog, removed “Fast Macintosh” and “Process Files in Directories” and added “Use Playback Volume” in the MIDI pane, • Using the “Repeat” playback option on a single file now loops extremely smoothly, • First pass at random access playback by clicking in the progress bar, • Suffixes will only be removed from file names when converting if they are a valid sound file suffix, • Added time elapsed and remaining displays to the Status window, • Get Info on a MOD file while playing a MOD file will now work correctly, • Calculated play times for music files using the ZSS drivers are now correct, • Now sends tone bank control (32) to MIDI synthesizers if OMS MIDI driver is selected, • Fixed a problem which created incorrect WAVE headers for µ-law and IMA output data and in general when converting 8-bit sounds to µ-Law, • Also corrected a problem which created a slightly non-standard AIFF header, • Re-did the document icons and the buttons in the Controls Palette, • Better support for playback using virtual memory or RAM Doubler, • Enabled drag-and-drop and active scrolling in the Help window and active scrolling in Play Lists, • Upgraded to CodeWarrior Professional 1. 2.4.1, August 21, 1997. • Fixed a problem with the OMS output device getting corrupted in the Preferences dialog and changing the output device no longer requires quitting SoundApp to take effect, • SoundApp now recognizes two more file types as MP3 files: Shockwave’s and MacAmp’s, • Incorporated new MacAmp MPEG playback code which now handles MPEG Layer II, • Slipping around in an MPEG Layer III file now no longer resets the volume to 100%, removed a slight glitch with some low bit-rate MPEG Layer III files and improved disk reading for smoother playback, • Fixed a glitch when jumping around in a MPEG Layer I file which would result in some odd noise, • Fixed a problem playing sounds that are less than 100 ms long and MPEG Layer I files less than 64K.