Re: Sound conversion

[Michael Warner <Mikeal@rmci.net>]

Mitchell Spector wrote:
> 
> In article lcornel@cello.gina.calstate.edu (Louis Cornelio) writes...
> >
> >I'm curious about converting Mac sounds. Does anyone know of a program
> >that does this handily?
> >
> >Mitch offered this info:
> >
> >Non-resource sounds can be converted fairly easily with a number of
> >programs.  Older Mac sounds are all 22kHz and the only thing that needs
> >to be converted is that 0 bytes have to be filtered out (these mark the
> >end of a sound on the GS).  I've never seen a program that can read Mac
> >sounds in resource forks, but there probably is one.  It would just be a
> >matter of extracting the sound and sticking it in a GS resource (the
> >resource formats are different).
> 
>    Are you referring to me, or did you perhaps mean a Mark or Mike?
> As far as I know, I'm the only "Mitch" active on the comp.sys.apple2.*
> groups and certainly did not write the above.
> 
>    As to your question, try AudioZap 1.2. When you select a file
> from from a Macintosh disk, it will ask whether you wish to open
> either the data or resource fork (normally the digital sample wave-
> form will be in the resource, so choose that). As the other person
> mentions, you may have to filter out zero's or manually edit out any
> "noise" garbage as a result of header information or whatnot. Once
> it's loaded in, you'll be able to save in a native IIgs sound format.
> 
> Mitchell Spector
> spec@vax2.concordia.ca

	I've used MacSound Grabber and it works great! I've even gotten 
sounds off CD's games and others. Got some interesting stuff. And I don't 
have to do any programming with it. Just choose and tellit to save it and 
there it is.
						Mike :)