SoundApp is an audio player and converter for Mac OS Classic (System7 to Mac OS 9) developed by Norman Franke that supports a wide variety of formats for reading (including MP1/2/3, but only playable in the PowerPC version because the 68K processors are not powerful enough for real-time decoding) and writing.

It features a playlist editor and can be scripted using AppleScript. CD ripping with CDDB support is also available, but no MP3 encoding - it can only write to simpler compression schemes such as ADPCM and MACE.

The program stopped being developed in late 2000, at a time Mac OS 9 was already on the way out making way for the launch of Mac OS X. Surprisingly the web site is still available here.


Date: 2000-11-13
Version: 2.7.3
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Mac OS Classic PPC
Download: SoundAppPPC273.sit.bin - 594kB

Date: 2000-11-13
Version: 2.7.3
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Mac OS Classic 68K
Download: SoundApp68K273.sit.bin - 585kB

Date: 1998-04-16
Version: 2.5
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Mac OS Classic (fat binary)
Download: SoundApp_Fat25.sit.bin - 877kB

Date: 1997-12-15
Version: 2.4.3
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Mac OS Classic (fat binary)
Download: SoundApp_Fat243.sit.hqx - 1106kB

Date: 1995-04-02
Version: 1.5.1
Interface: Graphical
Platform: Mac OS Classic 68K
Download: SoundApp_1.5.1.sea.hqx - 212kB