tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 28 06:20:49 1995
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Re: audio mail
- From: [email protected] (Steve Weaver)
- Subject: Re: audio mail
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 09:21:46 -0500
On Tue, 28 Mar 1995 08:31:04 -0500
"Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]> "marqoS" wrote:
>"Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]> writes:
>\ Hmm. The sound-bites on the web site are in SUN .au format, since that's
>\ far and away the most common format I saw on the web. There's a program in
>\ ftp://ftp.kli.org/pub/Software/ called WHAM that plays .au files on PC's.
>\ Maybe that could be used?
>\
>\ ~mark
>
>Sun .au format is exactly the format I described earlier - 8kHz, 8-bit
>samples, mu-law encoded. Suns were among the first UNIX workstations to
>provide any audio capability, so .au files quickly sprung up all over the
>place,
>and when the MIME developers needed to specify a minimal audio format, that's
>what they used.
>
>NeXT workstations will handle .au files automatically, as will, I believe,
>HP-UX workstations. And as ~mark states, WHAM will play them on a PC. The SOX
>utility will convert among virtually every audio format known to man; maybe it
>would be a good idea to put a link to it up on the KLI site as well, for any
>folks not covered by the above (Mac users spring to mind).
>
>-marqoS
No problem for us Mac users (me anyway ;-) ). There are three good
freware/shareware programms available to the Mac'ers to convert either .wav
or .au formatted files.
In alphabetical order (no preferance or warrenty implied):
1 - Brians Sound Tool - .WAV, .VOC, .AU, mu-law (8 bit mono), Amiga 8SVX,
AIFF, FSSD, .BIN and converts System 7 SNDs to System 6.
2 - Sound Builder - SND, AIFF, AIFC, WAV, VOC
3 - Sound Machine - mu-law player.
#'s 1 and 2 will save in 5, 7, 11, 22, or 44 kHz. I haven't used #3 is
soooo long....
These are available on any BBS.
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