BASS 2.2 review

BASS is an audio library for use in Windows and Mac OSX software.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: un4seen developments Buy Now Price: $121.00 Updated: 17 Apr 2006

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BASS is an audio library for use in Windows and Mac OSX software. Its purpose is to provide developers with the most powerful and efficient (yet easy to use), sample, stream (MP3, MP2, MP1, OGG, WAV, AIFF, custom generated, and more via add-ons), MOD music (XM, IT, S3M, MOD, MTM, UMX), MO3 music (MP3/OGG compressed MODs), and recording functions. All in a tiny DLL, under 100KB* in size.

BASS uses CoreAudio for output, and OSX 10.3 or above is recommended. Both PowerPC and Intel Macs are supported.

C/C++, Delphi, Visual Basic and MASM APIs are provided, with several examples to get you started. Other APIs are also available.

Here are some key features of "BASS":
Samples - Support for WAV/AIFF/MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG and custom generated samples
Sample streams - Stream any sample data in 8/16/32 bit
File streams - MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG/WAV/AIFF file streaming
Internet file streaming - Stream MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG/WAV/AIFF files (inc. Shoutcast, Icecast & Icecast2) from the internet (HTTP and FTP servers), with adjustable buffering
Custom file streaming - Stream MP3/MP2/MP1/OGG/WAV/AIFF data from anywhere using any delivery method
Multi-channel streaming - Support for more than plain stereo, including multi-channel OGG/WAV/AIFF files
MOD music - Uses the same engine as XMPlay (very accurate, fast, high quality reproduction), with full support for all effects, filters, stereo samples, DMO effects, etc...
MO3 music - MODs with MP3 or OGG compressed samples (vastly reduced file size with virtually identical sound quality), MO3s are created using the MO3 encoder
Multiple outputs - Simultaneously use multiple soundcards
Recording - Flexible recording system, with multiple device support and input selection, (WMA encoding & broadcasting via the add-on, and other formats via BASSenc)
Decode without playback - Streams and musics can be outputted in any way you want (recoded, written to disk, streamed across a network, etc...)
Speaker assignment - Assign streams and musics to specific speakers to take advantage of hardware capable of more than plain stereo (up to 4 separate stereo outputs with a 7.1 soundcard)
High precision synchronization - Synchronize events in your software to the MOD music and streams, synchronize playback of multiple channels together
Custom DSP - Apply any effects that you want, in any order you want.