SoundApp is a

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audio player for the

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. It was among the earliest MP3 players for the Classic Mac OS, and was widely praised for its ability to play back, and convert between, a variety of audio file formats. The program appears to have been abandoned by its creator, Norman Franke, after the release of SoundApp 2.7.3. Franke's reasons for abandoning the project have never been made public, and SoundApp has never been ported to Mac OS X. Another developer, Joachim Bengtsson / Third Cog Software, has begun a version for

Mac OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. Within the market of ...

, "SoundApp Reborn", but this project does not use any of Franke's original code. As of 2017, SoundApp Reborn is at version 0.1.1 and supports audio playback but not conversion and does not incorporate all of SoundApp's features.

Features

Audio formats

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and AIFF-C * Amiga IFF (

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) * Audio CD Tracks * AVR * DVI ADPCM * EPOC 32 (Psion Series 5) *

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* IMA ADPCM * IRCAM *

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* Amiga

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* MPEG Audio (including MP3) * PARIS * PSION sound *

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Movies * Sound Blaster

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* Sound Designer and Sound Designer II * SoundCap *

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* Sun Audio (AU) and NeXT * Studio Session Instrument * System 7 and SND files * Windows

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References

External links

SoundApp home page

Download page at mac.org

Page discussing the demise of SoundApp
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