Re: Help on the Mac

Mark Coniglio (troika@panix.com)
Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:10:32 -0500

>hey there. i am surrounded by macs being on a school campus.
>
>do you have any idea what method(s) can be used to digitize audio
>recordings (tapes)? or what format that would take on a web page?
>
>thanks,
>jennifer

It depends on where the digitized audio will be played
back. If you intend to put it on the net and want to
have the widest compatibility, you should encode the file
as a AU file, which many platforms can play. (Typical Mac
applications record into AIFF or AIFC files (Audio
Interchange File Format) which most Mac people can play
but not Unix and PC folks.

I suggest you get the program SoundMachine. Here is
one of the places where it lives:

ftp://ftp.uwtc.washington.edu/pub/Mac/Sound/SoundMachine2.1.sit.bin

Also check out the following web page -- it has pointers to other
video, etc., programs that may be helpful.

http://www.uwtc.washington.edu/Computing/WWW/Macintosh.html

If you have more questions, feel free to email me.

>there are a variety of machines available, from centrises to the newest
>powermacs (Power PC). i'm not sure what model of centris, does that
>make a difference?
>

No -- I just wanted to make sure you were on a Mac.

I will try to add some audio file info to the art on the net
Macintosh help page. BTW, it is at

http://www.art.net/Help/mac_tools.html

Best,
Mark

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