Re: Quick GS Sound Question

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3engfa$e9n@lastactionhero.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
Sean Michael McAfee <mcafee@umich.edu> wrote:
>Today I dug up some old sounds--VOCs and WAVs, mostly--and tried to pair them
>up with appropriate events ("Game over, man, game over!" from "Aliens" as the
>shutdown sound, and "Gimme some sugar, baby" from "Army of Darkness" for the
>Insert Disk sound).  After stripping the zeroes, I used the File Manager NDA
>to set the type and auxtype of the sound files to the same as those of the
>already-installed sound files ($D8 and $0003 respectively), and finally
>rebooted.  But the new files didn't show up in the Sound Control Panel list.
>What am I doing wrong?

   Well, the sounds don't just depend on the filetype. They must be
in the resource fork of the files, etc. This lets multiple sounds
be attached to one file, etc. Use the neat program rSounder to convert
raw files to resource-based sounds.

Nathan Mates

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