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From: cape@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Robert Cape)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Wanted: SND information!
Message-ID: <139@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 90 17:18:12 GMT
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Reply-To: cape@StPaul.NCR.COM (Robert M. Cape)
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In article <13510001@hplsla.HP.COM> andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino writes:
>I am new to the world of sound and music on the Atari ST. Dave Bagget's 
>series of sound programs finally piqued my interest in exploring this 
>arena.  I've managed to lay hands on a number of SND files and have noticed 
>some curious results. Some SND files play just fine using Dave Baggets 
>PLAY.PRG and some don't. Of the ones that don't, some will play OK on 
>PLAYEM.PRG which I got from GEnie, but there's still a few that won't
>play. The programs that don't play always sound horrifically garbled and 
>sometimes even cause the floppy disk drive LED to flicker!
>
>I'm wondering if anyone can explain the differences I've seen, er, heard, 
>and perhaps comment on the availability of hardware to digitise sound 
>on the ST.
>
I too have enjoyed Dave Bagget's  PLAY.PRG.  I know there are a tremendous
number of sound files available for the MAC, a number of sound files are
becoming available for the Sun SPARC, etc. 

My question(s):

- What is the file format of the .SND files that you use Dave?
- What other formats are used on the Atari ST? 
- What format(s) are used by the MAC?
- Has anyone written a utility to take a MAC sound file and convert it to .SND?
  (Setting aside for now the problems of file transfer.)

Something like the "ST Picture Formats" description would be nice to compile.

Bob Cape

r.cape@stpaul.ncr.com