Online Milosz Readings: soundfile converters for the Mac
Angelika Meyer
ameyer at leland.stanford.edu
Fri Mar 24 14:09:12 UTC 1995
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
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