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Subject: Re: Converting various formats to .AU (Sun Sparc)
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From: max@isis.eng.hou.compaq.com (Max Heffler)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1992 19:32:02 GMT
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ej@cc.univie.ac.at (Ewald Jenisch) writes:

>Does anybody know of a clever utility to convert the various sound-formats
>to Sun .au? I've tried 'sox', but couldn't get it working.

>E.g.:

>./sox monkey.voc beast.au
>./sox: Unsupported output style/size for Sun/NeXT header.  
>Only U-law, signed bytes, and signed words are supported.

Here are a few of my scripts:

# 8svx2au
sox -t 8svx $1 -U -r 8000 `basename $1 .8svx`.au

# snd2au
sox -t raw -u -b -r $1 $2 -U -r 8000 `basename $2 .snd`.au

# voc2au
sox -t voc $1 -U -r 8000 `basename $1 .voc`.au

# wav2au
sox -t wav $1 -U -r 8000 `basename $1 .wav`.au
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