SoundExtractor is shareware and copyright by Alberto Ricci. If you use it or keep it, please send me $5 (checks or cash). If you think that’s too much, send me whatever you think it’s worth, or a postcard, but please do send me something. If you don’t like it (I can’t believe it’s possible!), pass it along to your friends or trash it.
Please always include this document with the SoundExtractor application.
My address is:
Alberto Ricci
Corso De Gasperi, 45
10129 Torino, Italy
I’d also be very glad to receive suggestions, bug reports, etc.. You can reach me on Internet as FRicci@polito.it or on CompuServe as 100010,3275 (on CompuServe probably only until August, 1992).
When you register, please send me your mail address and an e-mail one, if you have it, so that I can notify you of new versions.
••• What is SoundExtractor?
Do you remember those sound suitcases created with utilities like SoundMover or SoundEdit? Each of them contained one or more sound resources. They were (and still are) a very popular way of storing sounds.
When System 7.0 was released, we saw that one of the new Finder’s features was to play a sound by clicking on its icon. So, for example, to hear a sound in the System file you just have to double-click on the System file, and you can see the sounds installed in it. To play one, you just need to double-click on it.
The problem is that this can’t be done with sound suitcases. Here is where SoundExtractor comes in.
Just open one of these sound suitcases with the “Open” choice in the File menu of SoundExtractor or drag its icon on top of SoundExtractor’s, and a new folder will be created. This folder will have a custom icon of a folder with a little speaker on it, and it will contain all the sounds that were in the sound suitcase. But now, double-clicking on the sounds will play them!
If you check the option “Prompt for Destination” in the Preferences menu, SoundExtractor will ask you where you want to create this sound folder. Otherwise it will create it next to the sound suitcase.
You aren’t restricted to sound suitcases, though. You can also extract sounds from applications, stacks or other files that contain at least one sound resource. You can choose whether to look for standard sounds of type ‘snd ’ or other custom types, or sound data files.
••• Version History
• Version 1.0, October 25, 1991
First release.
• Version 1.1b1, November 3, 1991
Version 1.1b1 was distributed locally, and it shouldn’t have gone too far. It still had some bugs that have been fixed in 1.1b2.
• Version 1.1b2, November 23, 1991
More options added: a Progress Window, and the option to delete sounds as they’re converted.
Balloon help added.
You can now drag a file on top of SoundExtractor, and it’ll be processed.
Preferences are now stored in a separate file in the Preferences folder in the System folder, so you should be able to run SoundExtractor from a locked disk or a read-only shared volume.
• Version 1.1, November 28, 1991
The Delete after Extracting option now works properly.
Custom Sound Resource Types option added.
Memory watch window by Alessandro Levi Montalcini was added.
• Version 1.2, January 12, 1992
You can now extract sounds from the data fork of a file.
SoundExtractor now handles Apple Events.
You can interrupt the extraction progress by typing Command-Period.
Cosmetic changes.
• Version 1.21, January 17, 1992
A bug that required twice the RAM while extracting sounds from the data fork was fixed.
A bug in creating the Preferences file introduced in version 1.2 was fixed.
Cosmetic changes.
••• Plans for Next Version:
Progress Bar in Progress window.
Ability to automatically recognize the sampling rate of a data sound file.
••• Thanks to:
Alessandro Levi Montalcini and Fabrizio Oddone for their help.
