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SoundApp Reborn... If you're an old-timer on the Mac, you might remember Norman Franke's excellent SoundApp for the old Mac OS 7-9. It played sound, plain and simple. No fuss. No skinning, no plugin architecture, no fancy G-Force visualization something thingamajig. Just playing sounds.

Now, there's iTunes and QuickTime Player, and people are pretty happy with that even though sometimes it's just that much overkill. Say you want to preview twenty wave files. Just give them a quick listen. You'll probably use iTunes, which means creating an iTunes playlist, adding the files, playing them, and when you're done, hunting down the multiple copies of the files that iTunes has now spawned on your harddrive, removing the original files, removing the iTunes duplicates, removing the playlist, searching through your Library to remove the songs from there, ... You get the point.

It's in moments like those that you dream yourself back to the good ol' days, when an app did what it did best and nothing else. The simple days!

Well, guess what. Simplicity is back.

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WHAT'S NEW
This is just the first version, version 0.1 at that. There's no conversion, and some features are missing.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Third Cog Software
Downloads:1,714
  - Version d/l:1,696
Multimedia & Design:Audio
License:Free
Date:18 Feb 2007
Platform:PPC/Intel
RATING
***½.
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SoundApp Reborn User Reviews (7 posts)Write A Review
Jul 18 2007

EMANKAYKER  First off, thank you for bringing soundapp to osx!

but there is one fonctionality that was making the difference with other softs, and it is not working now, that's the ability to play stereo split files as a single file.

thanks and best regards

e  (Version 0.1)

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Feb 24 2007

COMPUTERNAUT  I'm very happy to see that someone's taking on the task of reinstating SoundApp for OS X!

I know that this is in early development, but I ran it through a quick evaluation and these were the things that I stumbled across. I will not put a review score on this app, in its current state, as I think SoundApp Reborn is in a rather unfinished state. The following list is meant as constructive criticism, hoping that it might help tracking down things that, if fixed, might improve things in SoundApp Reborn.

- Doesn't allow drag & drop of file(s) onto the application icon.

- Repeat loops the sounds with a small pause glitch between the end and beginning

- The Info window persists popping up when double-clicking a file in the list (would be nice to be able to choose whether or not to see this, like in QuickTime)

- Help menu doesn't lead to a help file (frequently debated issue, but personally I think it shouldn't be there if there is no help)

- Navigation is very quirky; when you are in the list (without having the Info window opened) and press Up or Down arrow keys, you select the next/previous file in the list (which is all fine), but when you've pressed Space, to preview a sound (and again, when the Info window automatically pops open), the Up and Down arror keys doesn't maintain their original function (select previous/next sound)

- Bug: It seems to mess with keyboard input (at least on my machine). When I'm using TextMate, TextEdit or any other program with some kind of text input field it gets impossible to input anything! This issue occurs when having a loop playing in SoundApp Reborn, and exactly when the starts over again.

- This is just a subjective opinion: The icon doesn't necessarily have to be all "OS 9-esque". I can see why it's been made so as to resemble how the original SoundApp was looking (which isn't bad), but it looks a bit hastily created and would benefit from some more afterthought and polish.  (Version 0.1)

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Feb 19 2007

EASER  When I first went looking for an OS X equivalent of this program, I found Folder Player. I still prefer it to SoundApp, even in this new incarnation. Granted, SoundApp is free, but Folder Player has given me more options, and I don't have to have a dozen windows open when I want a different playlist.   (Version 0.1)

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Feb 19 2007
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LOUKASH  Unlike in the old Mac OS days, in OS X there are several ways to preview (or rather *pre-hear*) audio files in Finder without even launching another application:

- Column View (cmd-3)

- Get Info window (cmd-I)

- floating Inspector window (cmd-opt-I)

All you need to do is to open the Preview section then...

Opening a sound file with QuickTime Player doesn't seem to me as much overkill either, certainly not more than lauching *any* other app to play an audio file. And QT's Info window shows a lot of, well, *info* as well.

So as a player SoundApp Reborn seems only a waste of Dock space so far. It doesn't even accept Drag&Drop on its icon yet.

If you can bring back all the format conversion that the old SoundApp could do, then you may have a winner though! :)  (Version 0.1)

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