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

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

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?