Re: MAc sounds on GS

[gareth@vcn.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

Louis Cornelio (cornelio@crl2.crl.com) wrote:
:  
: Does anyone have any exact specs that would help me convert sound files
: from Mac to GS? MacSoundGrabber only works about 25% of the time for me.
:  
: I can use Sound Converter on the Mac to change System7 sounds that
: MacSoundGrabber chokes on to AIFF files & the HS sound shop will work
: another 25% of the time.
:  
: That still leaves me getting only half the sounds I'd like to convert.
: As I start w/ System 7 sounds on the MAC, maybe  I need to ask on a
: newsgroup there what the variables are, but I was wondering what the GS
: might require on this end to make it easy to grab a sound file.
:  
: Thanks!
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One thing to watch for is that some Mac sounds have a 0 in them - which is
fine for a Mac, but the GS interprets as meaning "stop playing." If your
sound utility has a "strip zeroes" function, try it.

-Gareth