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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.music
Subject: Re: Playing sound on the Mac:  snd1 vs snd2 resources
Message-ID: <1990Jul13.220929.5444@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 13 Jul 90 22:09:29 GMT
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by sandell@ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell):
| Is there a way to convert a sound resource in snd1 format to snd2
| format?  I mean, is there a program around somewhere that will
| do this for you?
 
  Sumex to the resuce. Check out "./infomac/sound/program" and you'll
find this...

	178445 sound-manager-package-161c.hqx

  I pulled a few utilities of sumex since I built my SID-II, and this
package contains some possibly useful things. The main one is a FONT/DA
MOVER-like package that can read all sorts of things including 'snd ' 1
and 2 resources, sound data files, etc. You can also open sounds from
the Dark Castle series programs (neato). It will convert any sound
format to any other, although it does it automagically and doesn't
really make it apparent. (ie, copy to stack or HyperCard itself, and you
get a snd2 resource compatible with HC. Copy that to a you system
file, and you get a snd1 resource.)
  You of course get to listen to sounds and choose your sampling rate.
There is a little feature that, when you hold a magic key down and hit
the copy button, the sound data is transformed from X KHz to X/2 KHz,
effectively halving the size of the sample. 
  The only real drawback (for us cheapos) is that the author wants US$25
for the whole package, which I think is a bit much since the other stuff
in the package is covered by other shareware (and I don't even want that
stuff!!) It says that when you send in your fee, you get full
documentation (for all the little magic keys I assume :-) as well as a
clear conscience, other software from the author, and a bunch of sounds
on two disks.

Hope this helps

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