Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!tcapener
From: tcapener@watserv1.waterloo.edu (CAPENER TD - ENGLISH )
Subject: Re: Amiga to Mac sound file conversion
Message-ID: <1991May27.175826.8556@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: digitize, audio, conversion, Mac
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1991May22.131159.29523@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1991 17:58:26 GMT
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In article <1991May22.131159.29523@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, dasay@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Devin N Asay) writes:
> Anybody out there know of any utilities that convert Amiga IFF sampled
> audio files to any Mac audio file format?
> 
> Devin N. Asay
> Computer-Based Instruction
> *The* Ohio State University

SoundEdit from Farralon Computing (a Mac program) can read and write
IFF format files (sort of).  I recently converted a lot of PD Mac sounds
into Amiga format.  Unfortunately, it wasn't all that straightforward.

What I did was to load the Mac sound resources into SoundEdit, then save
them as IFF files.  Unfortunately, most 8SVX players don't like SoundEdit's
idea of IFF (but the PD player 'play' does).  So, I used a byte-by-byte
file editor (zap) to remove all of the IFF header information and turned
the file into raw 8SVX sound, which I then loaded into Perfect Sound and
saved in a more palatteable IFF format which all of my 8SVX players can
read.

I realise you want to do the opposite of what I did, so if SoundEdit can't
read Amiga's IFF sound files then you'll have to do what I did in reverse.
Look in the Addisson Wesely Amiga Autodocs book for info on how to make
an 8SVX header if you need to.

Sorry this is so vague, but I hope it helps a bit.