Purpose: Extract and resample sounds in any mac file that contains 'snd ' resources, and save in the form of double clickable finder sound files (one for each 'snd ' resource). Resampling means that the new sound file created with have a different sampling rate and hence different size but will sound like the original (no pitch shift). Fidelity will drop if the selected sampling rate is too low. Contrarywise, selecting a higher sampling rate will preserve the fidelity of the sound but waste memory.
Reason: Some programs require sounds at specific sampling rates. Reducing the sampling rate of sounds can save memory and, depending of the frequency content of the sound, with little loss in fidelity.
Usage: Any number of mac files can be dragged and dropped onto the ReSample application icon and ReSample will extract, play and resample every 'snd ' resource in the resource fork of each file. Double click launch for selecting the output sampling rate differing from the default 11.1kHz. Subsequently use drag and drop for simplest operation in which case the sfil files are tucked away in a folder with a custom icon.
Choices: There are four regimes of sampling rate selection that can be chosen in the "Output Sampling Rate" menu: (i) standard or preferred Mac sampling rates; (ii) non-Mac standard sampling rates; in this case Sun 8kHz rate and the CD 44.4kHz rate; (iii) custom sampling rate anything between 2kHz and 64kHz, so if 13467.00987Hz is your favourite rate then you've got it; and (iv) "Extract", i.e., same as inputsampling rate, in which case it just extracts the sounds with the qualification that Format 2 sounds are converted to Format 1 sounds.
Use at your own risk. Please report bugs.
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