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Version History

2.0, April 1, 1996.
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.
2.4, August 11, 1997.
ΓÇó 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.
ΓÇó 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.
ΓÇó Incorporated the new Amp MPEG Layer III playback code for increased performance and support for MPEG-2 Layer III files,
ΓÇó QuickTime files with multiple sound tracks are now converted properly,
ΓÇó Enhanced SoundAppΓÇÖs 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.
ΓÇó Completely re-did the Preferences dialog, removed ΓÇ£Fast MacintoshΓÇ¥ and ΓÇ£Process Files in DirectoriesΓÇ¥ and added ΓÇ£Use Playback VolumeΓÇ¥ in the MIDI pane,
ΓÇó Using the ΓÇ£RepeatΓÇ¥ playback option on a single file now loops extremely smoothly,
ΓÇó First pass at random access playback by clicking in the progress bar,
ΓÇó Suffixes will only be removed from file names when converting if they are a valid sound file suffix,
ΓÇó Added time elapsed and remaining displays to the Status window,
ΓÇó Get Info on a MOD file while playing a MOD file will now work correctly,
ΓÇó Calculated play times for music files using the ZSS drivers are now correct,
ΓÇó Now sends tone bank control (32) to MIDI synthesizers if OMS MIDI driver is selected,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem which created incorrect WAVE headers for ┬╡-law and IMA output data and in general when converting 8-bit sounds to ┬╡-Law,
ΓÇó Also corrected a problem which created a slightly non-standard AIFF header,
ΓÇó Re-did the document icons and the buttons in the Controls Palette,
ΓÇó Better support for playback using virtual memory or RAM Doubler,
ΓÇó Enabled drag-and-drop and active scrolling in the Help window and active scrolling in Play Lists,
ΓÇó Upgraded to CodeWarrior Professional 1.
2.4.1, August 21, 1997.
ΓÇó 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,
ΓÇó SoundApp now recognizes two more file types as MP3 files: ShockwaveΓÇÖs and MacAmpΓÇÖs,
ΓÇó Incorporated new MacAmp MPEG playback code which now handles MPEG Layer II,
ΓÇó 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,
ΓÇó Fixed a glitch when jumping around in a MPEG Layer I file which would result in some odd noise,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem playing sounds that are less than 100 ms long and MPEG Layer I files less than 64K.
2.4.2, November 23, 1997.
ΓÇó Added a sound volume slider to the Controls palette,
ΓÇó Added Export From QuickTime menu option,
ΓÇó Added a play position AppleScript parameter,
• The Add… menu option now presents a new multiple get files dialog to add files to a Play List,
ΓÇó The send oms data AppleScript command now uses the selected device,
ΓÇó The Get Info and Status windows now display the stereo mode for MPEG files,
ΓÇó Added a new Auto Play option which will automatically play a Play List when it is opened,
ΓÇó Added a new icon to trick Netscape into selecting a semi-valid file type as its default,
ΓÇó Now supports playback of some partially corrupt MIDI files,
ΓÇó DOSifying file names is now a little smarter with file names with non-standard suffixes,
ΓÇó Fixed an initialization problem when playing MIDI files via QuickTime,
ΓÇó Get Info on MPEG files now works properly while playing MPEG files,
ΓÇó Converting MPEG Layer III files no longer ignores the last little bit,
ΓÇó Enabled conversion of MPEG Layer II and Layer III sounds on a 680x0 Macintosh with an FPU,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem converting short MPEG Layer II and Layer III files,
ΓÇó Added limited parsing of the id3 text information standard for MP3 files to display the song name,
ΓÇó The default base note for System 7 sound files is now 60 (middle C) which may fix problems using SoundApp-generated sounds in HyperCard,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem sending SysEx messages when playing MIDI files via OMS,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem playing truncated AIFF files,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem with getting a ΓÇ£File Not FoundΓÇ¥ error while converting files,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem playing stereo 8SVX files using the AppleScript start at parameter,
ΓÇó Fixed a problem deleting files from a sorted Play List,
ΓÇó Better compatibility with SWA files, especially version 6.0 files,
ΓÇó Enabled drag-scrolling in the Help window,
ΓÇó Upgraded Amp MP2 and MP3 engine to 0.7.6.
2.4.3, December 15, 1997.
ΓÇó MPEG Layer I and Layer II decoding has been rewritten for better compatibility with joint stereo files, although MPEG-2 Layer II is not supported at this time,
ΓÇó MPEG conversion on 680x0 Macs now works without FPUs and can convert all layers,
ΓÇó Fixed a cosmetic problem while changing the selection in a Play List via AppleScript with SoundApp in the background,
ΓÇó Playing MOD files using the ZSS driver will now obey the ΓÇ£Stereo ModeΓÇ¥ preference,
ΓÇó Enabled playback of MPEG audio QuickTime files,
ΓÇó Upgraded to CodeWarrior Professional 2.
2.4.4, December 16, 1997.
ΓÇó Oops, fixed the volume slider which wouldnΓÇÖt move due to changes in the control class of PowerPlant in CW Pro 2.