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Gots a prob you audiophiles might be able to help me with.

I recently raided my old hard drice and found a bunch of old Icewind Dale speechfiles for characters. I figured they might be useful (and some are quite funny). and since they were .wav files, opening them seemed like it would be easy.

No such luck. Winamp, Itunes, Quicktime, and Audion all refuse to play the files and don't recognize them as WAVs. Any ideas? I'll post a sample when I get onto my home machine, since each file is quite small.

How ya doing, buddy?

Here's one of the troublesome WAVs. Any info you can wring out of them will be greatly appriciated.

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Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

According to Game Audio Player, your file is not a wav file, but a ACM file. Use Game Audio Player to playback and convert your ACM file into a wav file. When you run the program, click on the playlist icon (to the right of the Play, Stop, and Track/seeking buttons). Then press Alt+F to scan an individual file or Alt+X to scan an entire directory.

An ACM, eh? Figures. I was converting all the Icewind Dale music on my HD from ACM to WAV when I found the files in the first place!

Thanks for the info though. I wonder why it's got the .wav tag (which it had in the game directory) rather than .acm? Oh well.

EDIT: You don't happen to know of an app for OSX that can do the job, do you? It would save me a step and a half or so

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Does anyone know anything about .srf files? I'm interested in decompressing some of the .srf files from the "You Don't Know Jack" trivia series to get some funny quotes without having to record directly from the game.

I don't really think anyone will know anything--my gut tells me it's a proprietary format--but hope springeth eternal.

EDIT: Included a sample file. I renamed it to .rar, but it's actually a .srf

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Here's an issue that's been driving me bonkers.

I've occasionally seen rips of DVD audio that contain just the music and some SFX from a movie, and none of the dialogue. I assume that this is done by isolating one of the sound channels and recording it with a line-in or some such thing.

My question: how does one do that? My computer's DVD player doesn't seem to have an option for seperating the channels, and I'm not sure where to look for something that does.

Any suggestions?

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Slogra

Well, usually the music and sfx come from the left and right speakers, while speech only comes from the center speaker. So you probably are missing the sound that comes center (and surround speakers).
Try setting your soundcard/mediaplayer to stereo. This way the 5.1 channels will be mixed down to stereo and you will hear all sounds.

Thanks, but in this case, I'm not trying to hear all sounds. I want to split the channels so I can get an SFX/music only track, which I know is technically possible.

It's the closest thing to ripping an isolated score...without the isolated score!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?