From: kkrebs@amilink.citrus.sac.ca.us (Ken Krebs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: .au/ADPCM UnCompresser
Date: 24 Jan 93 22:12:52 GMT
Reply-To: amilink!kkrebs@citrus.sac.ca.us (Ken Krebs)
Organization: Citizens Against Whiny A-Holes, Sacramento, CA
X-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith


Hi.


Just recently, someone posted a 1.2 meg soundfile to alt.rave.  It is a Sun
.au soundfile that is compressed with ADPCM.  I really want to listen to
this sound file, but I have no way of uncompressing it!  Can someone please
EMail me a program that will decompress it, or point me to an FTP site that
has the program?  I only have an Amiga and am not a programmer so please,
let it be an Amiga binary.

Here's the ReadMe posting for it:

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From: earle@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Greg Earle)
Newsgroups: alt.binaries.sounds.misc,alt.rave
Subject: System 01 - The Pleasure Principle (Techno) .au - Part 00 of 28
Followup-To: poster
Date: 18 Jan 1993 03:27:07 -0800
Organization: Gainfully unemployed
Distribution: world
Reply-To: earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US
NNTP-Posting-Host: elroy.jpl.nasa.gov
Summary: I am back
Keywords: Techno

The posting that follows is an ADPCM compressed Sun "au" format sound file,
containing an entire (5:06) song by System 01 - "The Pleasure Principle".
Those of you who have the "Berlin 1992 - A Tresor Kompilation" CD already
know the track "Drugs Work" by the same band.  "Drugs Work" originally
appeared on a 5-track CD5 called "Victim 34".  This track "The Pleasure
Principle" appears on the same CD5 single.

This file is 1.6 Mbytes uuencoded.  If it were saved as a straight AU file,
it would have been almost 3 Mbytes, so don't complain about the compressing.
Once decoded, this file can be played with the Sun OpenWindows 3.x "audiotool"
program (which can also run under X11, if you have the shared libraries it
needs - libdeskset, libce and libtt, as well as the XView libraries - available
to it) directly.  Otherwise, you'll have to run it through an ADPCM decoder,
such as OpenWindows' "adpcm_dec" (in $OPENWINHOME/bin) to get the uncompressed
original AU file.

Although any song sounds shitty in 8 KHz mono, this song is so great that I
hope you can get the jist of it, and buy the original.  Plus, I just got this
audio cable for my home SPARCstation-1 clone, so I had to try it out on
something (-:

For those of you reading this on alt.rave, now that I have a machine at home
I can rejoin the world of Usenet.  My address is in the "Reply-To:" header of
this posting.  Through using mail2news I can get a machine at JPL to post
this for me until I get C News up and running here at home.

If you've read this far, yesterday's Los Angeles Times claimed that a U.S.
tour for The Orb will commence in March; the L.A. date is rumored to be in
"a special place", like an aircraft hanger.

	- Greg

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