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Date:      Tue, 23 May 95 15:53:16 MDT
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner)
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: NeXT Audio File (.au / .snd) player?
Message-ID:  <9505232153.AA27002@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <95May23.085458pdt.49871@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at May 23, 95 08:54:45 am

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> 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
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