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From: jcc16609@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Joe Cwick)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: .au sound file format???
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.003239.24949@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 00:32:39 GMT
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Does anyone know what the format is for the *.au sound file format....I believe
this format is used for files on suns...I would like to be able to convert
them to a format which I can play on my IBM PC using my Sound Blaster card 
(a .voc or .snd file would be acceptable).  If there is a converter somewhere 
at an ftp site, please let me know.  If not, I am willing to write my own....
all I need is the information regarding the format....

Is this format just an a-Law (or perhaps a mu-Law) companded sample?  Does it
have 8 bit resolution?  How about a header?  If anyone knows the answer to
these questions, please leave me a note on the net or e-mail.

Thanks,
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