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- From: Frank.Moehle@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Frank Moehle)
- Subject: Re: .AU sound-file player/convertor?
- Organization: University of Oldenburg, Germany
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:20:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.153026.20939@arbi.Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
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- C556212@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Jeoff Hines) writes:
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- > I have seen a lot of these *.AU sound files on various sites, but when I
- >ftp one, the sound quality is severly distorted. As I understand it, this is
- >a Sound Blaster file, which is used to digitize entire songs.
- In fact, you're totally wrong. .AU means a-law or u-law format, which is
- a kind of logarithmically downscaling 12 bit to 8 bit. .AU is very common
- on SUN SPARC stations and some other big machines.
-
- > Is there anyone out there that knows of an ST player or convertor that
- >can handle the .AU format?
- a) Have a look at atari.archive.umich.edu, in atari/sounds or one of it`s
- subdirectories. As far as i know, they have a convertor from .au to .snd .
- (very noisy, though). It may be a part of the "digistuf" package.
-
- get sox5beta.tar.Z from "ftp.cwi.nl" , compile it on your favourite
- unix host or use the atari version of GCC and it`s utilities.
- SOX can convert between almost any sound format, including sone very common
- formats from DOS, UNIX, PC and MAC, and does a very accurate job.
-
- Hope this helps
-
- Frank
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