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From:Neil Bothwick
Date:2 Jul 2001 at 00:10:49
Subject:Re: Making Mp3's

Rich Woods said,

> Hello Neil

>>NB> There used to be an executable that was named WAV2IFF - you could
>>NB> enter the wav file anem and it would make it an iff.

>>NB That wouldn't help with LAME, it doesn't accept IFF files.

> Not using lame.

But everyone you were replying to is.

>>NB> Now there are some programs out there but it takes a number of
>>NB> steps to do this - anyone have the WAV2IFF executable?
>>NB
>>NB It's not an executable, it's a script that comes with AmiSOX.

> This wasn't a script file - it was an executable that I kept in my c
> directory.

OK.

> Was easy - sd0:soundfile.wav to sd0:soundfile.iff - bingo - done.

This is an easy "wav2iff soundfile.wav", you don't even need an output
fie name.

> Believe me - it WAS an executable - just can't find it on aminet and
> don't know where I got it from.

Use the sox one then. It works just as well. all it does is call sox
with the appropriate arguments for converting WAVE to 8SVX.

Cheers

Neil



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