From: mfrazer@scott.skidmore.edu (John Drake Not A #)
Subject: Re: Soundconversion .AU to .WAV (Dos program?!)
Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
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Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 19:00:12 GMT

On 7 Dec 92 10:58:05 GMT, Rob Knubben (robkn@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl) wrote:


: Hello,

: Is there anybody who knows a real good soundfile-conversion program?
: (It has to be MS-Dos or MS-Windows)
: (if possible public domain or shareware)

SOX is a good conversion, I think the latest os SOX 3d or 4b or
something, it is available most ftp sites in your neighborhood.

: I'm looking for a program which converts as many different sound-types to
: other formats. It should be a MS-DOS (or MS-Windows) program, which at least
: converts .AU files to .WAV files. This is because I want to convert some
: Twin Peaks Quotes such that I can hear them. I believe some of them have
: the extension .HDX. Does anybody know what this format is about?

: I've tried Sun2Voc and Voc2Wav to convert the .AU files but one of these
: programs doesn't recognize the inputfiles as legal ones.

OK the Twin Peaks files are Bin-hexed and Stuffed. I don't own a mac,
but in the mirrors/msdos/mac directory on wuarchive.wustl.edu (I'm
once again unsure on the directory) there are zips for the ibm that
will un-bin-hex and unstuff them. Doing this is a real pain, Bin-hex
is a mac equivalent of uuencode/decode, and stuffit is a compression
program, the files must forst be unbinhexed, then unstuffed, The
Binhex prog is called Binhex (Versin numbers??) and the stuffit is
unsit or stufit or soemthing like that. It has been over a year since
I got them.
Now in doing this you need to extract the resource and data files to
different files, I believe that the rsr files are what you want, they
are raw 8 bit sound files with mac name headers, you will need to then
take these rsr file and using your favorite sound utility (I used
scoptrax) manually remove tha mac headers and endings that cause
static, then save them in your preferred format.
It takes a while, and the convert form mac utilities have absoloutley
horrid interfaces (any single error in the file causes you to not be
able to extract any of the sounds) and I think three of the hqx's are
bad on the ftp site already.
Sooo, good luck, if I still had them all I might upload them up in voc
or maybe raw form, but alas I've canned most of them, I mean who needs
16 megs of Peaks Bytes?

: If anybody knows more about this: please e-mail me. I have to admit I don't
: check this newsgroup regularly. (My e-mail address should be below...)


: CU,
:   Rob Knubben




: ----------------------------------------------+--------------------------------
: A: -I lived in my head mostly.                | robkn@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl
: C: That's not a bad neighborhood.             |
: A: -There were some pretty strange neighbors. | Rob Knubben
:     ( A: Annie Blackburne [Heather Graham]    | Student Computer Sience
:       C: Dale Cooper [Kyle MacLachlan]        | Technological University
:          -- Twin Peaks -- )                   |   Eindhoven, The Netherlands.



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