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Answering the recurring call for a proper third-party book on Core Audio, one that doesn’t throw the reader to the wilds of picking out side-effects and ephemera from sample code and mailing lists, I’ve got an announcement…

Oh, wait, freakin’ Amazon beat me to it.

Well, the announcement is that I’m joining Addison-Wesley’s Core Audio book as a co-author to Kevin Avila.

This has been in the works for a little while, but in the last week we made it official: sending around contracts, setting up a Subversion repository, and going over the first batch of stuff that Kevin has already gotten started, with the assistance of legendary Mac programmer Mike Lee. Our editor is Chuck Toporek, who tried so hard to get me to write a real Mac book for him at O’Reilly, and I’m pleased to have the chance to work with him for the first time.

I don’t know if we can replace subscribing to coreaudio-api as a practical requirement of aspiring Mac and iPhone audio developers, but hopefully, we’ll be able to keep a few people from going nuts trying to figure out WTF error 1718449215 means (it’s kAudioFormatUnsupportedDataFormatError, and I’ll bet you tried to use floating point samples on the iPhone, didn’t you?).