[NTLK] [OT] Restoring sound files from old Mac drive?

[Vladislav Korotnev]

That worked, thanks a lot!


// Ak.R.

iOS/Mac/Windows & Web developer
Vaporwave/ambient producer, sound/video engineer

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> On 22 Aug 2018, at 21:13, Dennis Swaney <romad at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> If you have access to a Mac OS X computer, this would work:
> http://systemsoundext.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Also this: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/8479/play-sound#
> 
> Sincerely,
> Dennis B. Swaney
> 
> "I think, therefore I Mac"
> 
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:34 AM, Akasaka Ryuunosuke <vladkorotnev at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone
>> 
>> Recently I've finally got hold of a SCSI PCI controller, and so was
>> able to make an image of my dying Mac LC drive.
>> 
>> Now the thing is, that drive had a lot of sound files, recorded using
>> the standard sound control panel, which have a lot of family history
>> meaning now.
>> 
>> However when I mount the image under linux as simple HFS, the files
>> come out as 0 bytes, and I can't play them with anything.
>> 
>> I suppose that's because the audio data is in the resource fork, rather
>> than the data fork, so the linux doesn't see it.
>> 
>> Is there some utility that I can use to convert those files into
>> generic wav files?
>> 
>> The image is perfectly valid, because I can boot it in Basilisk II --
>> but the sound doesn't work in it for me due to the fact I have
>> PulseAudio and it wasn't updated for that.
>> 
>> Many thanks in advance!
>> 
>> 
>> Sincerely,
>> - Ak.R.
>> 
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>> http://genjit.su
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