Chapter 14. Sound and Video
Most user interfaces make some use of sounds. Even if this isn’t done explicitly, several views will beep if you try to do something invalid. Judicious use of sound is one of the hallmarks of a polished user interface.
There are a number of APIs that you can use for playing sounds, depending on how complex your requirements are. These range from simple beeps to complex multichannel sound playback with real-time mixing.
Some of the more advanced Cocoa APIs for playing back music are also able to play back video and even edit audio and video files. In this chapter, we will take a look at some of the options for multimedia in Cocoa.
14.1 Beeping
The simplest way of making a sound is to use the NSBeep() AppKit function. ...
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