Matt Price wrote: > 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? did you try the obvious 'file Audio1-01'. It might know something about the file. erik
