Article 166982 of comp.os.vms:
Loco wrote:
> could somebody tell me if there is a program that converts wav, mid and mod
> files to aud format.

Hi,

The SoX sound file format converter can certainly read WAV format.
I don't know about MID and MOD (I've never encountered them), but
there's a good chance.

However, I don't know of any sound conversion program that can write AUD
format, though I guess it would be possible to bolt a new output format
onto SoX, calling Digital's DIVA (Device Independent Voice Applications)
library to create the AUD format.

However, if you just want the AUD file in order to play it on a VMS
workstation using (eg.) DECsound, then you don't have to do all that.
DECsound can also play standard Sun AU files (single-channel, 8-bit
µ-law encoded, 8000 samples/second), and this is one of the many
possible output formats of SoX.

SoX is available from the OpenVMS Freeware CD (V3.0), which is online at

  http://www.openvms.digital.com/openvms/freeware/cd.html

I haven't tried that version, because I'd already done my own port from
(possibly a more recent version of) the SoX/Unix distribution (see

  http://hepwww.rl.ac.uk/browsers/Mosaic/VMS-Mosaic.html#utils

if you want my executable (gzipped)).

To specify the correct output format for DECsound, you should use, eg.

  sox -t auto boing.wav -r 8000 -t au "-Ub" boing.au

to convert boing.wav to boing.au (my sound2au.com procedure (on the
above web page) can help specifying all those options). However if SoX
can't work out the input format from the file header information (with
"-t auto"), then you'll have to specify that as well.

I hope this is of some help.

Regards,
Tim.

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