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Leopard Technical Q&As: Audio
Core Audio and Core MIDI are the Mac OS X audio and MIDI subsystems. Core Audio provides a hardware abstraction layer, an effects processing framework, data format conversion routines, and other services. Core MIDI provides a hardware abstraction layer and MIDI routing.

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AudioChannelLayout - What's the Audio Channel Order when the Layout has a Channel Bitmap? (HTML)
QA1638: Explains the audio channel order when a channel layout is tagged as kAudioChannelLayoutTag_UseChannelBitmap.
2009-04-12
Audio Queue - Looping Compressed Audio (HTML)
QA1636: Discusses the format information required to seamlessly loop compressed audio using Audio Queue.
2009-02-20
Creating Core Audio Format (.caf) Files (HTML)
QA1534: Describes how to use afconvert to create .caf files
2009-01-07
Using the ExtAudioFileSeek and ExtAudioFileTell Functions (HTML)
QA1609: Describes how to use sample rate correctly when working with audio file positions.
2008-09-29
The Default Output Audio Units (HTML)
QA1577: Describes the Mac OS X output audio units and their purposes.
2008-08-21
AudioConverter: How do I know when I am done? (HTML)
QA1532: Describes how to correctly signal AudioConverter when a conversion is completed.
2007-08-23
How to handle kAudioUnitProperty_MaximumFramesPerSlice (HTML)
QA1533: Illustrates how to use the kAudioUnitProperty_MaximumFramesPerSlice property
2007-07-16
Unable to select input device in AU Lab (HTML)
QA1526: AU Lab only supports physical device singletons.
2007-05-17
Standard Audio - Setting output ASBD returns badFormatErr (HTML)
QA1489: Discusses why badFormatErr may be returned from Standard Audio
2006-11-15
Changing the volume of audio devices (HTML)
QA1016: Demonstrates volume controls for audio devices
2006-05-02
CoreAudio Overload Warnings (HTML)
QA1467: Describes CoreAudio overload warnings what they mean and how to avoid them.
2006-03-29
Using NSSound with CoreAudio on Mac OS 10.3.x (HTML)
QA1394: Workaround the NULL input buffers in a Core Audio IOProc callback when using NSSound by using AudioDeviceAddIOProc
2006-03-29
Determine the version of an Audio Unit (HTML)
QA1408: Determine the version of an Audio Unit
2005-03-07
Signaling the end of data when using AudioConverterFillComplexBuffer (HTML)
QA1317: How to signal the end of data when using AudioConverterFillComplexBuffer to convert audio data.
2004-04-26
Audio Unit Resizing (HTML)
QA1343: Discusses the host's responsibilities when resizing Audio Units.
2004-03-23
Use NSSound instead of NSMovie for audio only playback on Mac OS X 10.3 and greater (HTML)
QA1335: Why using NSSound may be a better choice than using NSMovie for audio only playback.
2004-02-04
AudioDevice sample rates (HTML)
QA1196: Getting, setting and converting sample rates with Audio Devices.
2003-12-09
AUGraphs and AudioUnit connections (HTML)
QA1174: Discusses AudioUnit connection issues when using more than one AudioUnit or an AUGraph.
2003-12-09
How to handle audio data with magic cookie information (HTML)
QA1318: How to handle sound files with magic cookies when using an AudioConverter.
2003-10-22