AudioRack 2.7.1 review
DownloadAudioRack is an audio player system for Mac OS X intended for use in live-assist and automated radio.
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AudioRack is an audio player system for Mac OS X intended for use in live-assist and automated radio. AudioRack contains a "rack" of five players which can be loaded with audio files and controlled manually, or loaded and segued automatically under program control from a playlist (radio segues, not the iTunes style fades).
AudioRack has extensive AppleScript support which allows it to run unattended. AudioRack is also a database front end for MySQL which can be used to organize, find and manage 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 Apple's core-audio system. Unless your computer is really hung up, it won't 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 won't glitch. This does NOT use QuickTime's 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?
What's New:
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.
Requirements:
QuickTime 7.0 or higher.
At least 256M of RAM.
1.2 GHz G4 minimum.
Access to a MySQL server.
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