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Core Audio has a very neat feature, enabling you to create virtual audio input and output devices called aggregate devices, which join together and synchronise the clocks of multiple real devices. You can then use these aggregate devices for audio input and output in the same way as real devices.
One way to create a [...]

I’ve been experiencing an annoying problem recently on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS 10.4.11. Any audio played in my DJ application, DJ-1800 v3.0.2, with Pitch Lock turned on, had constant crackles and pops, and was pretty much unusable. Even with Pitch Lock turned off, the crackles were still there if several tracks [...]

Three things have happened recently which make me think that the BBC’s iPlayer-for-Mac might actually be called iTunes. Here’s why.

No. And yes. In that order. This article gives the full detail behind what that really means.

I’ve been investigating 5.1 [tag]Dolby[/tag] Digital playback on the Mac, and I’ve discovered some limitations with using 5.1 audio under QuickTime – especially when trying to output it to the Mac’s S/PDIF optical output. This makes me wonder about some not-yet-mentioned features of the upcoming [tag]AppleTV[/tag] and its support for surround sound, and Apple’s [...]

Recently, I needed to be able to check if AAC files passed to my application were Protected AACs from the iTunes Music Store or not.