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Introduction to Audio Developer Note

Contents:

Organization of This Document
See Also

Developers who are designing peripheral audio devices that connect to a Macintosh computer will find this document useful.

Organization of This Document

This document is organized into the following articles:

• “Audio Concepts” describes Apple's implementation of audio input and output and defines the key concepts you need to ensure that your audio device is compatible with Macintosh computers.

• “Audio Product-Specific Details” provides details specific to particular Macintosh computers.

See Also

For specific information about a particular Macintosh computer, see the product Developer Note for that computer in Guides > Hardware & Drivers > Apple Hardware.

For a list of the standard units of measure and abbreviations used in this developer note, refer to Hardware Developer Note Terms and Abbreviations.

Apple offers the following additional resources for audio:

• Getting Started with Audio introduces audio-related resources for Macintosh developers.

• Audio Device Driver Programming Guide describes the requirements for Mac OS X audio device drivers.

• Apple Core Audio Format Specification 1.0 provides a detailed description of the format for Core Audio, Apple's audio architecture.

• The Core Audio developer mail list provides a forum for those developing audio products compatible with Macintosh computers and Mac OS X.

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