downloading and playing sounds
Chris Beamis
beamis at drizzle.com
Thu Dec 12 22:25:54 PST 2002
Hi,
I thought I would be clever and download some sounds to use
for my system sound effects instead of the stock ones.
Two separate problems stopped me:
1) I found a site with Looney Tunes sounds in .wav format.
http://www.nonstick.com/sounds/
I want to use these sounds but they need to be in .aiff format
in the /Library/Sounds directory.
Does anyone know if there is a utility to convert from .wav
to .aiff? I've been looking but got skunked so far.
2) To listen to the sounds, I left clicked on them in Explorer,
which causes (after some time for the download) a
little window to appear with the file name and controls
to play the sound, which it does just fine.
But I wanted to save the file on my disk so I clicked
File/Save As in Explorer and saved it to my area
using Quicktime since that is the only option offered.
When I double click it to play it a little window pops up
explaining that I can't play the file because some *.IETemp
file is missing. How do I download files using Explorer?
Thanks,
Chris Beamis
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