Re: MAc sounds on GS

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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.

Louis, MacSoundGrabber is an old program that chokes if the sound is
greater than 64K in size.  Try reading the sound with Audio Zap,
a shareware program.  It is on the ground and Caltech ftp servers,
but if you want, I can post it to comp.binaries.apple2 for you.  Use
Audio Zap to open the sound file.  It will ask you whether you want
to open the data fork or the resource fork.  If you don't run the
Sounds through another conversion program first, Mac sounds should
be resources.

>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.

Use Audio Zap.  It can grab as large a sound as you have memory for.
After you grab it, you can save it as a raw sound file that can be
loaded into Sound Shop.  You don't need to run the sounds through
Sound Converter first.  Take the raw System7 sounds to the GS.