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- From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
- Subject: Re: .aiff files?
- Message-ID: <crystal.715444649@glia>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 14:37:29 GMT
- References: <crystal.715220656@glia> <1992Sep2.013818.3596@cunews.carleton.ca>
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- In <1992Sep2.013818.3596@cunews.carleton.ca> ags@scs.carleton.ca (Alexander G. M. Smith) writes:
-
- >In article <crystal.715220656@glia> crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crystal) writes:
- >>In my travels through FTP land I discovered some .aiff files that are
- >>apparently samples.
-
- >If you check out the new (AmigaDOS 2.0) Amiga ROM Kernel Reference
- >Manual: Devices, you will find a list of all the known IFF formats. One
- >of them is AIFF, a more generic audio format than the commonly used (on
- >the Amiga) 8SVX. It has the advantage of doing n-bit samples in
- >arbitrary numbers of channels. So, stereo 16 bit sound (CD quality) is
- >within its capabilities, unlike 8SVX which is restricted to 8 bit sound
- >samples.
-
- ARRGH! I'm not THAT programmer oriented to have THAT book...yet... ;>
-
- >I don't know of any AIFF sample players for the Amiga. It shouldn't be
- >to hard to write one, if you have the skills and time.
-
- I just received a beta test version of one in email that plays a LOT of
- different formats, including NeXT. Since I have today off, I can play
- with it and see how such a thing works. (He just finished it a day or so
- ago...it's kinda neat getting to be a beta-tester! ;> )
-
- I'm not mentioning his name here because he might not want to get inundated
- with email...yet...;>
-
- Crystal
- ;>
-