From:	slstewart AT infocom DOT net
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Subject:	Re: Importing WAVs into Grabber
Date:	Sat, 04 Jan 1997 22:33:39 -0600
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Tony O'Bryan wrote:
> 
> I downloaded Allegro and want to import WAV files into Grabber, but
> Grabber reports an error while trying to load a WAV file I recorded
> with Win95's multimedia sound recorder.
> 
> I found some wav files that Grabber accepted, loaded them into Win95's
> sound recorder, and saved them to a seperate file to see if Win95 was
> doing something to the file.  Grabber wouldn't accept the file after
> Win95 messed with it.
> 
> Doesn anyone know of a WAV recorder that Grabber likes?

I don't know of any, but i do have an old Turbo C program somewhere that
strips extraneous blocks out of WAV files... 

The problem is that allegro assumes that wave files follow the standard
religiously.  Many WAVs these days contain other RIFF chunks than the
standard for icons, copyrights, etc.  It should be fairly trivial to 
fix allegro (just skip over unknown chunks).

Jim

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