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- From: mfrazer@scott.skidmore.edu (John Drake Not A #)
- Subject: Re: Soundconversion .AU to .WAV (Dos program?!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.190012.23379@scott.skidmore.edu>
- Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:00:12 GMT
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- On 7 Dec 92 10:58:05 GMT, Rob Knubben (robkn@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:
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-
- : Hello,
-
- : Is there anybody who knows a real good soundfile-conversion program?
- : (It has to be MS-Dos or MS-Windows)
- : (if possible public domain or shareware)
-
- SOX is a good conversion, I think the latest os SOX 3d or 4b or
- something, it is available most ftp sites in your neighborhood.
-
- : I'm looking for a program which converts as many different sound-types to
- : other formats. It should be a MS-DOS (or MS-Windows) program, which at least
- : converts .AU files to .WAV files. This is because I want to convert some
- : Twin Peaks Quotes such that I can hear them. I believe some of them have
- : the extension .HDX. Does anybody know what this format is about?
-
- : I've tried Sun2Voc and Voc2Wav to convert the .AU files but one of these
- : programs doesn't recognize the inputfiles as legal ones.
-
- OK the Twin Peaks files are Bin-hexed and Stuffed. I don't own a mac,
- but in the mirrors/msdos/mac directory on wuarchive.wustl.edu (I'm
- once again unsure on the directory) there are zips for the ibm that
- will un-bin-hex and unstuff them. Doing this is a real pain, Bin-hex
- is a mac equivalent of uuencode/decode, and stuffit is a compression
- program, the files must forst be unbinhexed, then unstuffed, The
- Binhex prog is called Binhex (Versin numbers??) and the stuffit is
- unsit or stufit or soemthing like that. It has been over a year since
- I got them.
- Now in doing this you need to extract the resource and data files to
- different files, I believe that the rsr files are what you want, they
- are raw 8 bit sound files with mac name headers, you will need to then
- take these rsr file and using your favorite sound utility (I used
- scoptrax) manually remove tha mac headers and endings that cause
- static, then save them in your preferred format.
- It takes a while, and the convert form mac utilities have absoloutley
- horrid interfaces (any single error in the file causes you to not be
- able to extract any of the sounds) and I think three of the hqx's are
- bad on the ftp site already.
- Sooo, good luck, if I still had them all I might upload them up in voc
- or maybe raw form, but alas I've canned most of them, I mean who needs
- 16 megs of Peaks Bytes?
-
- : If anybody knows more about this: please e-mail me. I have to admit I don't
- : check this newsgroup regularly. (My e-mail address should be below...)
-
-
- : CU,
- : Rob Knubben
-
-
-
-
- : ----------------------------------------------+--------------------------------
- : A: -I lived in my head mostly. | robkn@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl
- : C: That's not a bad neighborhood. |
- : A: -There were some pretty strange neighbors. | Rob Knubben
- : ( A: Annie Blackburne [Heather Graham] | Student Computer Sience
- : C: Dale Cooper [Kyle MacLachlan] | Technological University
- : -- Twin Peaks -- ) | Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
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