The well-hidden documentation of Core Audio
Ordinarily, I’d post this on del.icio.us, but this isn’t on developer.apple.com and I don’t think del.icio.us allows file: URLs.
Most use of Core Audio goes through Audio Units, but the Audio Unit API has historically been undocumented. Today, I finally found the Audio Unit documentation. Turns out that, rather than being in the /Developer/ADC\ Reference\ Library/Documentation folder (where you would expect documentation to be), it’s hidden in the /Developer/Examples folder. This documentation is so good (damn near production-quality) that I feel like I’ve struck a rich vein of gold ore.
WTF, Apple?
June 17th, 2007 at 20:26:23
Did you file a bug about it?
June 17th, 2007 at 21:04:16
No, not yet. I definitely should add it to my list, though.
June 23rd, 2007 at 01:22:59
My memory is fuzzy, but the reason this is so might be historical. The CoreAudio SDK kind of came out in dribs and drabs, including a long stretch of “this is not official documentation” warnings. I don’t recall what the downloads looked like, but there is a chance that they were drag and drop folders on a dmg.