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- Soundshrinker
- by James Cook
- ©Hartech 1990-1991
-
-
- WHAT IT DOES
-
- Soundshrinker is a small application that converts sound files (not resources)
- to lower sampling rates by copying every 2nd, 3rd, or 4th sample to an output
- file. This results in a dramatic decrease in the amount of disk/memory space
- a sound occupies, with the tradeoff being a decrease in the quality of the
- sound. It's primary usage is to convert 22k sounds to 11k.
-
-
- HOW TO DO IT
-
- Launch Soundshrinker. Select "Open" from the file menu. Choose the input file.
- Choose the output file. When the conversion dialog comes up, set an input rate
- and an output rate (the program will attempt to figure the input rate by
- itself) Click convert. Click OK in the dialog telling you how many samples it
- will throw out. Then wait and watch the beautiful PROGRESS BAR as it converts.
- If it takes a second for the bar to appear, that's OK.
-
- Listen to the sounds afterwards to decide if you can put up with the degraded
- quality before deleting the original sounds. (Remember, Soundshrinker can't make
- sounds sound better!)
-
- (Note: SoundShrinker only works on sounds with type 'FSSD'. If there is another
- type code it should work for, drop me a line and I'll write it in.)
-
- INCLUDED FILES
-
- Soundshrinker
- The one and only, featuring automatic rate extraction/setting, a progress
- bar, and a beautiful icon (with apologies to Fallaron & Raymond Lau)
- SS Docs.txt
- This file.
- SS Feature Wishes
- Some ideas I have for future versions. More Postcards = More Features!
-
-
- SHAREWARE PITCH
-
- This software is "postcard-ware". If you like it, send me a pretty postcard.
- If you don't like it, send me an ugly postcard telling me what you don't like
- about it, and I'll try to fix it! (E-mail is an acceptable substitute for a
- postcard. Don't bother sending me a GIF of your hometown, though :-)
-
- If anyone sends money, I will use it to buy some real Mac programming books...
- right now I'm using only Inside Mac, which is like trying to learn to write
- by reading a dictionary.
-
- James Cook Internet: jncook@ucsd.edu
- 8581 Sugarman Dr.
- La Jolla, CA 92037
- (619) 450-1930
-
- Source code is available for $10. Includes commented Lightspeed Pascal source
- showing how to do menus, dialogs, radio button groups, progress bars, file
- manager I/O, and resource extraction/creation. Also included are some of my
- favorite sound files.
-
-
- SPECIAL "SUPPORT THE NET" DEAL
-
- If you are on Internet, I'll mail you just the source FREE on the condition
- that you help me somehow to improve it. (Includes pointing out bugs/how to fix
- them. Does not include flames about lack of features/interface difficulties :)
- Send mail to jncook@ucsd.edu with subject "SoundShrinker".
-
-
- INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE
-
- Remember...no matter where you go...there you are.
- -Buckaroo Banzai
-
-
- VERSION HISTORY
-
- 1.2- 1/27/91 First wide release through Internet.
-
- 1.2-11/10/90 Recompiled under THINK Pascal 3.0. Noticable increase in speed.
-
- 1.1- 8/12/90 Fixed bug in AddResource that added INFOs to the program file if no
- file.less existed. Added an About... box and improved progress bar
- updates. Removed several debug dialog boxes.
-
- 1.0-??/??/90 Added automatic resource rate identification and setting. Added
- progress bar. Added icon. First general release.
-
- 0.9-??/??/90 In-house development version. Not released.