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New Sound Manager Features

This chapter discusses new features of the Sound Manager that are available since the release of Sound Manager 3.0, including Sound Manager releases 3.1, 3.2.1, and 3.3.

This chapter expands on the release notes that accompanied the Sound Manager 3.3 software. For example, Sound Manager 3.3 now supports scheduling of sounds, both in the past and in the future. In addition, Sound Manager sources are now multi-platform; the same manager, with the same API and features, is available for Mac OS, Windows 95 and Windows NT.

In Sound Manager 3.3, the contents of both SoundInput.h and SoundComponents.h interface files have been merged into a single Sound.h file.

Read this chapter if you want to use the Sound Manager to

• determine the currently installed version

• convert between sound formats using the SoundConverterOpen function

• use the sound conversion architecture to convert a buffer of silence to IMA 4:1, changing the sampling rate in the process.

These are described in the section "Using the Sound Manager".

Other sections explain the new sound commands, sound informational selectors and Sound Manager routines added since the release of Sound Manager 3.0.

Contents:

New Features of Sound Manager 3.3
Features of Sound Manager 3.1 and 3.2.1
Using the Sound Manager
Sound Commands
Sound Informational Selectors
Sound Manager Routines

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