From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 15:00:21 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA18371 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 May 1995 15:00:21 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA18356 for ; Tue, 23 May 1995 15:00:08 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA27002; Tue, 23 May 95 15:53:17 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505232153.AA27002@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: NeXT Audio File (.au / .snd) player? To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Tue, 23 May 95 15:53:16 MDT Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <95May23.085458pdt.49871@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at May 23, 95 08:54:45 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Is there a program out there that will read the header on a NeXT Audio file > and play it? I have come across a bunch of "play samples" programs, but none > of them will read the NeXT header, and none of them will byte-swap samples. > I had to write my own program to play the 44khz stereo 16-bit sound file my > roommate gave me. Should I expand this program to be general, or did I just > miss the program that is already out there to do this? NeXT uses a compressed uLAW format. It is mostly documented in header files on the NeXT machine itself. There's also some sound conversion utilities to convert to/from Sun uLAW (uncompressed: standard .au) file format and NeXT, Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.