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Peter Ceresole <peter@cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Some arsehole has posted eight binaries totalling 2.5Mbytes into a nice
> text-only newsgroup I take (alt.books.beatgeneration).
> 
> Even more irritating is that they are .mp3 sound files and I can't find
> anything on my Mac that will read them. These are MPEG2.5 format (11,020Hz,
> 16K/bps). When I try one on Movieplayer (with QT 2.5 and the QT MPEG
> extension) it won't play. Not good. Sparkle doesn't want to play (but
> that's no surprise). Same for SoundApp which, to my knowledge, doesn't
> claim any ability with MPEGs.

The current version - 2.5 - of SoundApp can handle lots of formats
(listing at end) including MPEG:

MPEG audio (layers I, II and III, requires a PowerPC processor for
playback)

It'll convert MPEG on a 68K, so even if you've not got a PPC, you can
listen to them eventually.

Here's some urls you might find useful:

http://macamp.lh.net/                                   MPEG3 stuff
http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~franke/SoundApp/   MPEG3 stuff
http://www.teaser.fr/~mpollet/Vamp/                     MPEG3 stuff

Rowland.


Formats Soundapp 2.5 claims to handle:

SoundCap (including Huffman-compressed) and Studio Session Instruments
SoundEdit (including stereo, MACE-3 and MACE-6),
AIFF and AIFF-C (8-, 16-, 24- and 32-bit, MACE-3, MACE-6, IMA 4:1 and
�-law),
System 7 sound and 'snd ' resource (including MACE-3, MACE-6, IMA 4:1
and �-law),
QuickTime MooV (soundtracks only, including MIDI movies),
Sun Audio .au and NeXT .snd (including �-law, a-law, 8-, 16-, 24- and
32-bit linear, 32- and 64-bit floating point, G.721 ADPCM and G.723
ADPCM),
Windows WAVE (including GSM-, IMA- and MS ADPCM-compressed, �-law and
a-law, 8-, 16- and 32-bit linear),
MPEG audio (layers I, II and III, requires a PowerPC processor for
playback),
Sound Blaster VOC,
Atari AVR (including stereo and 8- and 16-bit),
Many varieties of MODs, ScreamTracker 3 module (S3M), Multitracker
module (MTM),
MIDI (type 0, 1 and 2, including GS and XG; playback only),
Amiga IFF/8SVX (including stereo and compressed),
Sound Designer and Sound Designer II,
IRCAM (8-, 16-bit and 32-bit floating point), and
Psion Series 3 and EPOC 32 (Psion Series 5) sounds.


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