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Adding .snd to the filename causes a Quicktime icon with subdesignation ".AU" to appear. However, the files still do not open in Quicktime. If my memory is correct, the .au format was not the format System 7 used.

I forgot to add: If Sound Studio has no problem but Quicktime balks then is it perhaps just a file extension issue? That's why I wanted someone to tell me what the internal format of the OS7 sound files are. If I knew what extension to add, Quicktime might like it.

Since I've had my Intel Mac, the icons for the sound files have "gone vanilla", probably as a result of them never having had a file extension on their name. If I drag them onto the Quicktime player icon they decline to open. However, dragging them onto Sound Studio works perfectly every time and shows that the data inside the files is still good and playable.

My two questions are:

1. Is there any historical information that reveals what the system 7 sound file format *is*? If you recall systems 9 and earlier, you double clicked them in the Finder and they just played, not even requiring an application.

2. Although it's a relief to know that the data inside these old, but valuable files is still readable and playable one by one in programs like Sound Studio, my interest in Switch is its ability to do batch conversion. I would love to be able to drag a folder containing a complex nesting of further folders and these sound files onto Switch and have it convert all the files "in place" (ie preserving the folder structure), and for each sound file "blah" (no extension), putting a new one beside it "blah.mp3" (for example).

Bump. Can ANYONE at Invision answer this question? Please?

Thanks.

I started another thread (here) where I asked about support for the old Apple System 7 sound file format. No one has answered my question, so I'm bumping it here.

I can open such files in other programs like Sound Studio, so evidently it's a known format, but because the files themselves have no filename extension I know little else about them. I don't want to lose them!

I want to batch convert a large number of them now I have an Intel Mac and Classic support is gone. It would be grand to automate a process to convert them in place to, say, MP3 format. Is Switch (or some future version of Switch) my answer, or elsewhere?

Can anyone help? Thanks.