tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 28 05:12:39 1995
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Re: audio mail
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: audio mail
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 08:14:54 EST
- In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 27 Mar 1995 18:36:15 -0500. <[email protected]>
"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
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