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Apple DVD Playback 4.6.1
Apple DVD Playback is a very flexible and effective tool which addresses a disc validation issue some users may encounter when attempting to play a disc for the first time with DVD Player 4.6. This update is recommended for all users of DVD Player 4.6. more>> Apple DVD Playback 4.6.1 is a very flexible and effective tool which addresses a disc validation issue some users may encounter when attempting to play a disc for the first time with DVD Player 4.6. This update is recommended for all users of DVD Player 4.6.
Requirements: G3, G4, or G5 processor (G5 required for HD playback), Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

AudioLobe 4.2
AudioLobe is designed to help you independently alter the playback speed and pitch rate of audio files. more>>
AudioLobe 4.2 is designed to help you independently alter the playback speed and pitch rate of audio files. If you are a musician or interested in audio this means you can slow down complex sequences of audio without the vocal or instruments sounding unintelligible. Great for learning difficult notes in a musical sequence.
For example, you could set a section of the audio to loop at whatever playback speed you want and easily follow what is happening, without having pitch changes. AudioLobe 3 allows files to be saved with altered play speeds and major update update to the interface.
Major Features:
- Alter playback speed and pitch independently.
- Save audio/video with altered playback speeds to new files.
- Drag and drop playlist.
- Easy to use and intuitive audio controls.
- Supports all the common audio and video formats.
- Major update to the graphical appearance.
- Displays detailed audio track data.
- Autosaves column width changes and positions, new preferences for color control.
- Separate window for audio indicators and audio power levels.
- Many minor improvements for list clearing, software updating, control sizes, help menu, etc.
- Full-featured demo version. Saving of altered-speed audio files available with $20 license.
- Play adjusted-rate audio/video files exported by AudioLobe in other free apps such as QuickTime, ReelBean, etc.
Enhancements:
- Info panel bug fix.
- Reduce track info size in bottom left of main window.
Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard
MPEG Audio Player 1.74
MPEG Audio Player - MPEG audio files player more>>
It can play mpeg file thanks to the MPEG Audio Layer I, II, and III Decoder.
Enhancements:
- Fixed bug with mono files.
- Fixed bug that could cause crash on quit.
Audio CD Labeller 1.0.2
Audio CD Labeller is a tool helping you to use meaningful names for your audio CDs. more>>
Audio CD Labeller 1.0.2 is a tool helping you use meaningful names for your audio CDs. The MacOS generically labels audio CDs withnames like Audio CD 1, by installing this version of the Audio CD Labeller, you can use the same CD names that the AppleCD Audio Player uses.
AudioRack 2.7.6
AudioRack - Audio player for live-assist/automated radio more>>
AudioRack has extensive AppleScript support which allows it to run unattended. AudioRack is also a database front end for MySQL that may be used to manage, organize and find the audio files that it plays.
AudioRack requires access to MySQL in order to run -- HOWEVER you can play audio files that are not in the database library without the files being automatically added to the library (as iTunes does).
Finally, AudioRack has a separate audio playback engine (called arplayer) that does the grunt work of playing the files (any file that quicktime will play) using a 10 second long ring buffer and Apples core-audio system. Unless your computer is really hung up, it wont glitch - even with sluggish networked audio files.
As long as the network can maintain the encoded bit rate of the file over ten seconds, it wont glitch. This does NOT use QuickTimes built-in (yuck) player! Did I mention that it is also an open source program so you are free to add, improve, and customize it?
Enhancements:
- Added "event notification" support for input and output VU meters in support of a new client application.
- Fixed a bug where closing a recorder that is waiting for a timed start causes arserver to hang.
- Added support for dividing the audio mixing workload across multiple processors, if available, on a player by player basis using Apples Deferred Render AuadioUnit - previously, mixing would only make use one processor. This feature is only enabled if more than one processor is detected on the host computer.
- Added GUI for setting up the IAX telephone.
- Fixed a bug causing IAX telephone callers to only be in the left channel.
- Fixed a "double memory free" that _sometimes_ caused a folder pick to fail.
- Fixed the outnames and innames functions for getting audio device channel names if the device supports it. AudioRack now uses these names in the arserver input and output settings panel if an device makes them available.
- Fixed the problem where you had to wait a minute after shutting down for the control port to clear before that port could be reused by running arserver again.
M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 2.0.2.1
Provides latest audio drivers for the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra device more>> Provides latest audio drivers for the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra device
M-Audio Fast Track Ultra is a free and easy to use driver installer package for the M-Audio Fast Track Ultra audio device.
NOTE: Once you have completed installation, connect the device to a USB port on your computer. The use of USB hubs is not recommended when using M-Audio devices.
System requirements:
- M-Audio Fast Track Ultra
Enhancements
- Fix for a problem where click tracks would not mute properly when muting them in the control panel.
- Fix for an issue where a Pro Tools User might experience a problem when playing back a session at 96k, where no audio output was available until fader on hardware input 1 in fast track ultra control panel was raised.
- Note: This driver has been qualified to work with PTMP 8 on 10.5.5 with Intel and PPC.
Casio Wrist Audio Player 1.0.2
Casio Wrist Audio Player is a useful tool that allows you to download MP3s to the watch. more>>
Casio Wrist Audio Player 1.0.2 is a useful tool that allows you to download MP3s to the watch.
This application is Macintosh version Link Soft for the CASIO Wrist Audio Player. Use of this application requires a separately available CASIO Wrist Audio Player. The Wrist Audio Player is a wristwatch type wearable audio player that can playback MP3 files you create on your computer or download from the Internet.
This application makes it possible for you to transfer such files from your computer to the Wrist Audio Player. The wristwatch configuration of the Wrist Audio Player makes it possible for you to take your favorite music along just about anywhere.
MPEG Audio Realtime Player 1.74
MPEG Audio Realtime Player is an effective utility which is used for Layer I, II, III mpeg files. more>>
MPEG Audio Realtime Player 1.74 is considered as MPEG Audio Layer I, II, and III Decoder for Mac.
Enhancements: Bug fixes (mono files, crashes)
iBook 2001 Audio Patch 1.02
iBook 2001 Audio Patch is released for iBook 2001 (dual USB) with an aim to effectively correct an audio problem with this new consumer portable. more>>
iBook 2001 Audio Patch 1.02 is released for iBook 2001 (dual USB) with an aim to effectively correct an audio problem with this new consumer portable. The problem is this: iBook 2001 seems to turn off some audio component after 30 seconds of silence and WILL cut off short audio samples (and delay longer ones) when audio is played after a long silence. This patch will play a low data rate buffer of audio silence every 15 seconds to prevent the audio hardware from turning off. This seems to resolve the problem.
This application will use up some CPU cycles (and will probably shorten battery life a little) in trade for the audio playback fix until Apple releases an official patch. Once this happens you will no longer need this little application.
Requirements:
- 2001 iBook (dual USB)
Find, Label & Copy Files 2.0
An Automator action that will label your selected files and copy them to a chosen location more>>
iSkysoft DVD Ripper Pack for Mac is both a Mac DVD Ripper and a video converter software - a suite pack with iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac and iskysoft Video Converter for Mac combined. It is everything you need to rip your DVD movies and convert your video files on Mac OS for iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, iRiver, Creative Zen, Archos, PMP, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, PDA, cell phone, MP4 Player, MP3 player, and many other video and audio players. iSkysoft DVD Ripper Pack provides various practical features such as setting video brightness, contrast, saturation, selecting DVD subtitle and audio track, trimming DVD and video, and merging selected files into one file and so on.
Key Features:
1.Rip DVD and convert video to all sorts of video formats and audio formats for playback on most portable video and audio players.
2.It can also select any available subtitle and audio track on your DVD.
3.A professional program developed only for Mac OS X users.
4.Convert DVD and video for iPod touch, iPod classic, iPod nano, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Youtube (web), Creative Zen, iRiver PMP, Archos, various video mobile phones and many other digital video and audio players.
5.Merge all added files and output one file.
6.Set movie video brightness, contrast, saturation, and choose to apply special video effects to your video files.
7.Crop your DVD video to remove black sides.
8.You can trim your video files to only convert a part of a video file.
System Requirements: 1.MAC OS X or above operating system 2.At least 512M physical RAM.
System Requirements: 1.Optimized basic codec system including upgraded conversion engine, improved stability and conversion speed and optimized synch of audio and video. 2.Added mute function. 3.Optimized the function of deinterlacing.
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Audio In is an innovative and versatile recording program with an oscilloscope view of the audio input, volume operated recording (VOX recording) and scheduled recording. more>>
Audio In 1.0.3 is an innovative and versatile recording program with an oscilloscope view of the audio input, volume operated recording ('VOX' recording) and scheduled recording. Audio In can record from any CoreAudio compatible audio input device.
M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 1.4.6
The latest firmware for the M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 device more>> The latest firmware for the M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 device
M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 is a free and easy to use installer for the latest M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 device firmware.
NOTE: Once you have completed installation, connect the device to a USB port on your computer. The use of USB hubs is not recommended when using M-Audio devices.
System requirements:
- M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 device
Enhancements
- Increased the card interface reset time. This allows cards that require a longer reset time to be recognized properly.
- Fixed problem where some cards would erroneously display a media full message when trying to record but then record successfully if recording was immediately attempted again.
- If the MicroTrack was 1) connected to power and 2) was paused during recording and then 3) reached the timeout limit set in auto off, it could lose the recording. In 1.4.6 the MicroTrack will no longer attempt to turn off if plugged into power.
Play r749
Play - application for playing and managing audio files more>>
Play currently supports playback of FLAC, Ogg (Vorbis), Ogg (FLAC), Musepack, WavPack, Monkeys Audio, AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3 and various other audio file formats.
Play is integrated with the official Last.fm client, so you can share your listening habits with everyone. Consider joining the Play Users group!
Play is freeware, released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
FMOD Ex Audio Classes 0.6b
FMOD Ex Audio Classes - hooks into the cross platform FMOD Ex audio library, supporting a wide range of audio formats more>>
First, a little background... The FMOD Ex API supports multiple concurrent "system" objects which may map to multiple audio devices installed on the same machine. Consequentially, all audio samples, channels, and effects are owned by a single system object and can not be shared. If a system object is destroyed, all sounds, channels, groups, and effects created under that system become invalidated and accessing them will generate errors (or worse).
To simplify this situation within the REALbasic environment, these classes do not allow for more than one system object to be active at any given time. Under normal circumstances this should not cause any grief - you call FMEx.StartUp when your application is launched, load your audio samples, create player objects, etc., then call FMEx.ShutDown when your application quits and all will be fine. If you have a need to restart FMOD Ex however, all existing FMExAudio, FMExStream, and FMExSubMixer instances will point to invalid audio handles. There is error checking in place to avoid crashes if this situation should arise, but it can still be annoying. In order to properly restart FMOD Ex you should follow the steps below...
Call the Stop method on all existing FMExAudioPlayer and FMExAudioPlayer3D instances. You do not have to dispose of these objects, but calling Stop ensures the internal channel reference is reset.
Dispose of all FMExAudio, FMExStream, and FMExSubMixer instances (i.e. set them to Nil). Be sure to also dispose of any FMExAudio instances that have been assigned to FMExAudioPlayer.DefaultAudio properties.
Call FMEx.ShutDown, followed by FMEx.StartUp, then reload/recreate all required FMExAudio, FMExStream, and FMExSubMixer objects and re-route any submixers.
ByRef methods are provided to allow you to reuse existing FMExAudio, FMExStream, and FMExSubMixer instances by replacing the required data/handles. This can be much easier than recreating them from scratch.
These classes couldve been simplified further by automatically reference counting audio objects and starting/stopping FMOD Ex behind your back, but that would preclude the ability to restart the audio engine at any time, and greatly impair the start up options interface.
- Virtual Channels
One of FMOD Exs most touted features is automatic channel virtualization. This allows you to play sounds on more channels than are physically available and let FMOD Ex decide which are more important based on priority settings and 3D positioning. One caveat with virtualization is that you must call FMEx.Update as frequently as possible for this to actually work (e.g. in games youd typically call FMEx.Update every frame). NOTE: If youre already calling FMEx.Update for 3D audio you do not need to call it twice.
- MIDI
MIDI playback currently only works on Windows, and only if the default system sound font is installed (/windows/system32/drivers/gm.dls). Broader MIDI support is on the would-like list but primary tests point to a broken implementation on Mac OS X (i.e. some FMOD Ex bugs need to be fixed before this can work).
- Other bugs...
Stereo sounds routed to submixers may "pollute" the wave data of other submixers. Everything else works as expected however and the audio output is correct, but submixers may return incorrect values when calling their Level methods. This appears to be a bug within FMOD Ex itself but more testing is required.
RED player 1.0.2
RED player - Now you can listen your favorite alternative radio stations online. more>> MU.LAB is an alternative, state of the art music application for OSX and Windows, transforming your computer into a rich virtual music studio!
And it does not overwhelm you with a complex feature set, in which you can get lost.
At the contrary, MU.LAB is a user-friendly yet rock-solid musical tool designed to create, finetune and play Your Music!
MU.LABs core feature set:
- Audio Recording & Playback
- MIDI Recording & Playback
- Flexible Composition & Sequence Editing
- Supports Audio and MIDI VST Plugins
- Powerful Audio and MIDI Plugin Routing (up to 100% modular if you want)
- Integrated MuSynth: Powerful Modular Sound Engine
- Integrated MUX: Powerful Modular Audio/MIDI Effect Engine
- Integrated Audio Effects
- Audio Engine using 32 bit floats, all usable samplerates
- Sample Accurate Sequencing
- Multi Undo/Redo
- Available for OSX (Universal Binary) and Windows<<less