Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] AKAI sample CD-ROM disk format specification
From: Frank Neumann (franky_AT_viona.de)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 13:12:29 EET
Hi,
Rob Melby wrote:
> although the format hasn't been totally described, enough has been
> reverse engineered to get usuable data. i did a program along while ago
> to read akai format cdroms. it's at http://abrowse.sourceforge.net/ but
> not much has been happening with it of late (i think it will still compile
> against recent gtk headers). Most of this format was already described by
Hey, cool - I wonder why I haven't discovered this earlier - I thought I
had been browsing a lot of other sound-related SourceForge projects! :-)
(Well, ok, maybe categorizing it in the Trove as just "Conversion" was not
obvious enough for me :-)
> another person whose name unfortunately escapes me.
You might be talking about Paul Kellett, who has some more info about this
on http://www.maxim.abel.co.uk/akai/akaiinfo.htm
Also, there's a bunch of perl (!) scripts by Hiroyuki Ohsaki that allow
reading single files from Akai CDs at:
http://www.nal.ics.es.osaka-u.ac.jp/~oosaki/akaitools/index.html
> personally i wouldn't waste alot of time with the company.
Same experience for me, they were never very responsive. By the way, the
same is true for Creamware and their products (I won a PowerSampler this
year). I mailed them twice so far, asking for any documentation, SDK or
help, but got "Nay" each time. But I still have other sources to try..
Frank
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