[Eug-lug] Digital Audio Tapes

[Bob Miller]

Garl Grigsby wrote:

>    Does anybody have any experience with DATs that acutually contain 
> audio (in a straight audio)? I have been given a tape that has a 
> conference recorded on DAT tape that I need to convert to a digital 
> format (mp3/wav/etc) for distribution. While I have access to a number 
> of DDS drives, it appears that very few drives actually support reading 
> audio data. [1] So I guess what I am looking for is somebody localy that 
> can handle these types of tapes and give me either an audio cd or a disk 
> with WAV files on it. Any ideas?

SGI's drives under IRIX can read audio, I think.  I vaguely recollect
that the block size is 2k for audio, so something like this would
work.

	dd if=/dev/--uh-I-forget-rmt0-maybe-- bs=2k of=file

It's been about ten years, but I have made it work.

You might also try playing with the Indigo Magic GUI tools.  They
might just work.

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