ΓÇó Completely rewritten in C++ using Metrowerks CodeWarrior and PowerPlant as a fat binary for native PowerPC performance,
ΓÇó Support for multiple Play Lists with full drag and drop support, including drag conversion to the Finder,
ΓÇó Improved Status window that contains more information and a progress indicator,
ΓÇó 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.
ΓÇó Conversion of QuickTime movies without an intermediate file,
ΓÇó Conversion options to force mono/stereo and 8-/16-bit output and to ΓÇ£DOSifyΓÇ¥ output filenames,
ΓÇó Revamped Preferences dialog,
ΓÇó Enhanced AppleScript support for playback and conversion,
ΓÇó Rewrote the Help text, and
ΓÇó Created a better-looking application icon.
2.0.1, April 26, 1996.
ΓÇó Fixed a problem with the playback of mono IMA WAVE files,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem which may crash due to a bug in the AppleΓÇÖs Sound Manager header,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem playing very short files using double buffering.
2.0.2, April 29, 1996.
ΓÇó Corrected build problem which caused 2.0.1 to crash frequently.
2.0.3, June 11, 1996.
ΓÇó Corrected a length problem with some odd WAVE files,
ΓÇó Uses the ΓÇ£applFontΓÇ¥ instead of ΓÇ£genevaΓÇ¥ to permit localization,
ΓÇó Dragging a file onto the SoundApp icon with a Play List open no longer adds the file to the list,
ΓÇó SoundApp now maintains looping and base note information when converting between AIFF and 'snd ' resources, including System 7 sound files,
ΓÇó MPEG playback now no longer causes jerky mouse movement,
ΓÇó Mono MPEG files now play at the proper speed,
ΓÇó Closing the Status window via AppleScript no longer crashes.
2.1, July 10, 1996.
ΓÇó 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.
ΓÇó Incorporated new ZSS drivers,
ΓÇó Files passed to open/play/convert via AppleScript can now be specified as strings,
ΓÇó 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),
ΓÇó Can now pause playback using the spacebar,
ΓÇó Added ΓÇ£;ΓÇ¥-key for stopping after the file that is currently being processed,
ΓÇó Added floating button bar and a menu item to show and hide it,
ΓÇó Play Lists now support continuous shift-selection with scrolling,
ΓÇó The DOSify preference now allows underscores in the converted filenames,
ΓÇó Fixed a bug which crashed after sending an quit AppleEvent while playing,
ΓÇó Fixed a bug which would insert a very short click at the beginning of a WAVE output file,
ΓÇó Fixed a bug while converting MPEG files with an internal CRC check which caused the conversion to fail,
ΓÇó No longer write non-standard AIFF headers when converting,
ΓÇó Fixed a bug that would cause a crash when two MOD files are played one after the other using the ZSS drivers,
ΓÇó 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.
ΓÇó Corrected playback problem on 68K Macs.
2.2, December 3, 1996.
ΓÇó 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,
ΓÇó Added Sound Designer and direct QuickTime output formats,
ΓÇó Added support for MACE-3 and MACE-6 compression in SoundEdit files,
ΓÇó Added support for AIFF and 'snd ' files explicitly encoded with the 'twos' and 'raw ' codecs,
ΓÇó Re-wrote the MIDI code from scratch and added OMS support and a new MIDI Preferences pane,
ΓÇó Included new ZSS drivers with MTM support,
ΓÇó Added Script menu which lists the scripts in a ΓÇ£Script Menu ItemsΓÇ¥ folder,
ΓÇó The volume preference is now relative to the system volume, thus will have no effect on other applicationsΓÇÖ volume, and can now go from 10% to 150%,
ΓÇó Fixed sample rate specification with AIFF files due to an incompatibility with CodeWarrior and extended floating point numbers,
ΓÇó Fixed a bug which could cause a hang while playing MED/OctaMED files with the ZSS driver set as preferred,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem which caused some files to be left open when dragged to the Play List,
ΓÇó Now properly calculates the length of MPEG Layer I files,
ΓÇó Removed two-byte click at the beginning of converted System 7 sound files,
ΓÇó Added Info window to provide more information on a sound file,
ΓÇó Added extensive AppleScript support,
ΓÇó Added a ΓÇ£SoundApp Home PageΓÇ¥ to the Help menu if Internet Config is installed,
ΓÇó Conversion of suitcases or MOD files now places the sounds in a sub-folder,
ΓÇó ADPCM file playback is now no longer affected by the ΓÇ£Play a/┬╡-law as 8-BitΓÇ¥ or the ΓÇ£Convert a/┬╡-law as 8-BitΓÇ¥ preference,
ΓÇó Upgraded to CodeWarrior 10.
2.2.1, December 5, 1996.
ΓÇó 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, youΓÇÖll need to reset your preferences.
2.2.2, December 12, 1996.
ΓÇó Conversion downsampling from 44.1 or 48 kHz to a lower rate (e.g., 32 kHz) no longer produces slight clicks,
ΓÇó Playback of MIDI files using OMS now uses the proper selected device,
ΓÇó Work around a bug in QuickTime 2.1 which prevented many MIDI files from playing,
ΓÇó Fixed a bug which prevented MOD conversion on 680x0 Macs,
ΓÇó Fixed a bug which caused random shuffling of Play Lists to not be very random.
2.2.3, February 26, 1997.
ΓÇó SoundApp no longer gets confused if the Controls Palette is closed while playing a file from a Play List,
ΓÇó Made another attempt to allow SoundApp to work without a PowerPC-native AppleScript,
ΓÇó 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),
ΓÇó 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,
ΓÇó Cleaned up internal memory management and fixed some issues with drag and drop in Play Lists,
ΓÇó Significantly speeded up the sorting of Play Lists.
2.3, April 26, 1997.
ΓÇó Added support for the following formats:
  ◊ MPEG audio layer III (for computers with a PowerPC processor),
  ◊ uncompressed stereo Amiga IFF/8SVX files.
ΓÇó Partially corrupt MPEG files will now skip over the corrupt frames,
ΓÇó Added new preferences to copy files when dragged from a Play List and to append the ΓÇ£.typeΓÇ¥ suffix to output filenames,
ΓÇó Fixed a bug which would cause a crash when using AppleScript to get info on an invalid file,
ΓÇó Fixed a bug in the conversion to WAVE and AIFF files,
ΓÇó Using the space bar to pause play back now updates the Controls Palette,
ΓÇó Added AppleScript commands to get and set the playback volume,
ΓÇó Fixed a minor Play List button highlight problem,
ΓÇó QuickTime soundtracks with non-standard time bases are now dealt with properly,
ΓÇó Closing an empty Play List will not ask whether to save,
ΓÇó Fixed a bug which could crash while attempting to drag an item from a sorted Play List to itself,
ΓÇó Now better deals with file systems which are too slow to keep up with playback,
ΓÇó Added Q&A topic to the Help window to address some frequently asked questions concerning SoundApp.
2.3.1, May 7, 1997.
ΓÇó Fixed a small preference problem which prevented conversion from working unless a version 2.2.3 preferences file existed,
ΓÇó Improved MPEG playback stability and made decompression more responsive,
ΓÇó Converting to AIFF, System 7 or QuickTime IMA now no longer introduces a low frequency buzz.
