iPhone Audio Resources

Question

When browsing Stack Overflow I see mostly articles and questions about initializing and playback of audio files. My question: Where on the internet are tutorials for advanced audio playback and maybe editing for the various methods of playback? And maybe some tutorials on general workings of audio components, like the fundamentals of the related file formats and theory behind how software interprets them.

Books too.

(i.e. iPhone Games Projects, Apress publishing has very good optimization tutorials for various topics including audio management.)

Thanks,

Alex Earley

Answer 1

In the practical realm have you worked through the Core Audio overview and its related documents? http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/MusicAudio/Conceptual/CoreAudioOverview/Introduction/Introduction.html

They are a great resource but I find them to be fairly advanced, going far beyond simple cocoa / iphone applications.

At the more theoretical end, I would recommend this book: http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Digital-Audio-Ken-Pohlmann/dp/0071441565/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263765171&sr=1-1-spell Principles of Digital Audio. It can be a bit abstract if you aren't familiar with how some of this stuff is implemented, but it is a great companion when you want to learn the underpinnings of some technology.