Question

I’m mainly write iPhone apps but am familiar with some desktop Mac authoring. I need to create a Cocoa app that will include several wav sound files (included in bundle). I don’t want a user viewing package contents of the .app file and then extracting all of the sound files from it. Is there a way to protect those files?

Answer 1

Here are some possibilities, depending on the effort you feel like putting in:

1. Encrypt the files
2. Change the filename and extension to make it less obvios that they’re sound files
3. Embed the sounds inside an executable file, as a custom Mach-O
   section
4. Strip any headers from the files, and store just the raw
   samples
5. Write a program to convert the audio data to C array
   declarations, and compile into the app
6. Just don’t worry about it. Nobody’s
   going to “steal” your sounds, and if
   they did, so what?