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.
SoundApp Reborn is a remake of SoundApp for Mac OS X. However, it is still missing many, many features.
SoundApp Reborn is a remake of SoundApp for Mac OS X. However, it is still missing many, many features.
What's New
Version 0.1.1:
- Now left/right/space keys work even if focus is on playlist.
- Folders can be dropped onto the playlist to add their contents (FINALLY)
Requirements
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Intel/PPC, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
SoundApp Reborn User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:4,639 |
| Version Downloads:2,600 |
| Type:Multimedia Design : Audio |
| License:Free |
| Date:18 Jan 2009 |
| Platform:PPC 32 / Intel 32 / OS X |
| Price:Free |
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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.
SoundApp Reborn is a remake of SoundApp for Mac OS X. However, it is still missing many, many features.
SoundApp Reborn is a remake of SoundApp for Mac OS X. However, it is still missing many, many features.
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Kosovar1 reviewed on 15 Dec 2011
+36
the ability to set the creator of the audio files
to SoundApp while simply playing them, so
they would directly open with SoundApp the
next time. This feature and, of course, the
speed of SoundApp made it to my one and
only audio player under the classic Mac OS.
+155
Looking forward to testing it further. Keyboard shortcuts are welcome.
+837
But I'm a bit confused. Is this mostly a SoundApp interface? Or is this a port of the SoundApp application, with its playback and conversion capabilities?
From what I read, my impression is that SoundApp's engine has not been updated to work in OS X.
Anyone knows?
+837
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
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LouKash reviewed on 19 Feb 2007
- 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! :)
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Thanks for bringing us up to OS X!
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arglborps reviewed on 18 Feb 2007
+4
keep it up! i'd love to see a full 'os x version' of it :D
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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.