6 Oct
2005
6 Oct
'05
7:43 p.m.
Hi folks,
I just discovered two very ancient audio files on my computer. I am
pretty sure they contain some interesting archival material in which I
am very interested ... but I can't get them to play. The problem is
that I don't know what format they're in -- I created them a number of
years ago on a mac, and I no longer remember how -- maybe using
protools? or maybe someone else made them for me in some other
format? Anyway, when I copied them over to linux (eons ago!) I must
have lost the resouce forks, and there are no standard .xxx file codes
on the file names. I tried just loading the files in xmms and
audacity, but neither recognizes them (well, audacity sees one of the
two files as a very short burst of static, but the other it can't
recognize. I also tried:
cat Audio1-01 > /dev/dsp, which of course gave an incoherent squeal.
nevertheless I'm pretty confident they really are audio files.
soooo... what tools would you suggest I use to determine the file's
origins and type?
thanks,
matt