Plan for previous OS support about hermes HOT 5 CLOSED

I don't exactly have a plan to support previous systems, mainly because I have no method of testing the application on them. If it's not much effort to keep compatibility, I certainly don't mind doing so.

I'm not familiar with out AudioStreamer works, and I have no desire to dive into its internals just yet. Until I see a reason to switch to something like AVFoundation from AudioStreamer, I don't plan on doing so.

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If you don't know how it works, then why do you bother trying to support it, especially when you don't need to be "close to the metal"? Don't get me wrong, CoreAudio is great for when you need to be as close to realtime as possible, which is why I use it in some of my projects.

But let's face it, when you're already are streaming from the internet, what's a few more seconds to use an abstracted API more in line with the rest of the application?

Ultimately, however, that's your decision to make. I'll probably end up maintain a branch using AVFoundation.

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Oh I don't really have a preference one way or another, it just works right now which makes me happy. I wouldn't call myself experienced with Objective-C, much less all of Apple's APIs.

If AVFoundation has a nice API, I wouldn't mind using it at all, but then again you bring up the issue that it's not compatible with Snow Leopard.

I ran into problems with AudioStreamer when converting to ARC, and it might be the case that happens again at some point. I'll probably look into this at that point, but until then, there's not much reason to switch.

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Haha, no problem one way or the other. Was just looking through the code and seeing what I could improve.

Like I said, I'll probably take a look at maintaining a AVFoundation fork, so it's there if/when you want it. If there's anything more pressing you would rather me look at, just let me know.

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I'll warn you that this was my first Objective-C project, so don't expect fantastic style/practices at all. There's some serious room for improvement with respect to style.

Otherwise, there's not much I was thinking of right now, but thanks!

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