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Re: [exs] EXS24 Strings

2002-04-27 by HELP@MusicBootCamp.com

> This might be a byte-swapping issue. I haven't dealt w/ this in years,
> as most modern audio software handles this stuff, but the Intel and
> Motorola families of processors deal with binary data in opposite
> MSB/LSB orders. "Raunchy" is pretty much how I'd describe a soundfile
> played back with the wrong byte-order. Alternately, "bin" files are
> compressed data, if I remember correctly, and need to be run through
> Stuffit. If they still say ".bin" at the end, that's definitely a
> problem. I'm guessing that since they at least play, there's some sort
> of header intact, and it's probably the byte-swapping thing.

Right you are, but the expanded files should definitely not be .bin files. I
used DropZip on Mac (a Stuffit utility) to compress these files to ZIP. I've
never had problems like this in the past, but that's why I recommend using
Stuffit Expander for PC to open these files. -Jer

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