Re: rSounds -- How to play them?

[vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry)]

tsavage@ub.d.umn.edu (Tim Savage) writes:

>Well, for those of you who don't read InCider/A+, the January issue contains
>a story by none other than Joe Kohn, entitled 'Enriching System 6'. He
>describes a couple of Finder Extensions which will play rSounds by simply
>double clicking on the file. 

Finder extensions are a BIG problem. I don't use the Finder at all since I
dislike it very much. So Finder Extensions are not available to me. If new
software is developed only as Finder Extensions, there will soon be no
utilities I can use. It is a bad thing to treat the Finder specially just
because it's .... the Finder. Making the Finder an s16 like any other program
was a good move, unlike what they did on the Mac. But all the new stuff in
System 6 about the "finderSays" and stuff like that is stuff that Apple
created that is specific to the Finder. If they wanted to have that sort of
thing, they should have created a system that is not finder specific.

Neither of the Finder Extensions solve my problem anyway! They require the
sound CDev to be active which is exactly what I want to avoid (otherwise
there's no point, really).

I need anything. Even if it's a rSound-->RAW converter so I can use AudioZap.
As a last resort, what is the format of an rSound so that I can write such a
converter?

>Tim Savage						tsavage@ub.d.umn.edu
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