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Important: Sound Input Manager is deprecated as of Mac OS X v10.5. For new audio development in Mac OS X, use Core Audio. See the Audio page in the ADC Reference Library.
Inside Macintosh: Sound
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Important: Sound Input Manager is deprecated as of Mac OS X v10.5. For new audio development in Mac OS X, use Core Audio. See the Audio page in the ADC Reference Library.
The Macintosh hardware and system software provide a standard and extensible set of capabilities for producing and recording sounds. No matter what kind of application you are developing, you can use these capabilities to enrich your application, often at very little programming expense. For example, you might allow users to attach voice annotations to documents or to other collections of data. Or, you might play a certain sound to signal that some operation has completed.
This section provides a general overview of the sound input and output capabilities available on Macintosh computers. It defines some of the concepts used throughout this book and describes how sounds can be stored by your application. This section also describes the standard ways of representing sounds in the Macintosh graphical user interface.
Inside Macintosh: Sound
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Important: Sound Input Manager is deprecated as of Mac OS X v10.5. For new audio development in Mac OS X, use Core Audio. See the Audio page in the ADC Reference Library.