Online Milosz Readings: soundfile converters for the Mac

[Angelika Meyer]

On Thu, 23 Mar 1995 15:15:19 EST, twoofus at execpc.com wrote:
>
>  The Milosz page has a nice picture of him and links to bibliographical as
>well as biographical information.  More importantly, there are links to two
>poems, I'm pretty sure they're called "Conversations with Jeanne" and "Poem
>for the End of the Century."  What is really cool is that not only do you have
>a choice of either English or Polish texts, but there are links that will
>allow you to download recordings of Milosz reading the two poems, again either
>in Polish or English translation.  The site address is
>http://sunsite.unc.edu/dykki/poetry/home.html
>
>Warning!  The recordings are both over 1 meg in size and in .au format, so if
>you can't play .au on your computer and can't convert to something else and
>don't know someone who can, don't download the file!  I did email the person
>who maintains the page and asked about the possibility of other formats.  If
>anyone is interested I'd be happy to pass on whatever I find out.

The freeware program FileConverter allows Mac users to convert between
different sound file formats.

Here is the README file.

Greetings, Angelika

>
>       FileConverter
>
>This  folder contains the current version of the  freeware
>program  FileConverter,  written by  Stefan  Werner.  This
>program  runs  on  the Macintosh. It can  convert  between
>several  sound  file  formats.  At  the  present,  sixteen
>Macintosh, DOS, DEC and generic formats are supported.
>
>On  request,  more formats can be added  to  the  program.
>Please  contact  Stefan Werner at the  address  below  and
>furnish the following information/files:
>    *   The sound file format's commonly used name
>   *    On  which  computer platform  and  with  which
>computer program the format is used
>    *   Three  sample  files with  speech  (not  music),
>recorded at different sampling frequencies
>    *   As  much  information as you have on the  format
>(stereo/mono? 8-, 12- or 16-bit? header/headerless?, etc.)
>
>Please contact:
>
>    Stefan Werner
>    Linguistics and Phonetics
>     P.O. Box 111
>     Joensuu University
>     SF-80101 JOENSUU, FINLAND
>
>     EMAIL: stefan.werner at joensuu.fi