recover 1990/1991 audio file from Mac 68k

[mgmac]

hi
I have a somewhat unusual request
A person I met asked me for a favor, if I can recover a file that he used on a 68k Mac, probably a 68000 Mac which could be a Classic Mac or similar, probably in 1990/1991
The file in question is most likely an audio file, from an old recording, perhaps he tells me about QuickTime, most likely corrupt
I tried with several of my programs, but I failed
Does anyone want to try to recover it?
If someone accepts the challenge, he then makes a father and a son happy since it is presumably an old recording in which a child can be heard talking, therefore nothing private or military secret
I attach the file, which I compressed in .zip to avoid altering it by inserting it as an attachment in the forum
Thanks to anyone who wants to try

 

[LaPorta]

I'll give it a go.

 

[Phipli]

If it is a System 7 Sound format, the sound will have been stored as a resource and might have been stripped if it has been on a PC or sent in a way that didn't protect it.

I don't have an appropriate machine set up, but I'd try with SoundEdit. If people struggle, I've got a fair amount of Sound software installed on my 9600 - I'll fetch it out.

 

[LaPorta]

There is definitely something there in the data fork. 15 MB. I can hear something that sounds like a child's voice towards the end, but it appears to have been encoded in a very high frequency, or in a very weird format. I am using SoundExtractor 1.31 on my IIfx. I will also try on my iMac here as well.

 

[Daniël]

Just for fun, I tried a file analyzer online. However, the output surprised me in being something quite probable:

 

[LaPorta]

That is...odd. Let's see what that does.

 

[LaPorta]

Wow, excellent detective work!! At first I could not extract it, but with the last version of DD, 4.1, it was able to be extracted. I am currently trying to make it into something presentable. The speech is there...sounds like Spanish or Portuguese or something.

 

[Phipli]

Wow, excellent detective work!! At first I could not extract it, but with the last version of DD, 4.1, it was able to be extracted. I am currently trying to make it into something presentable. The speech is there...sounds like Spanish or Portuguese or something.

Awesome news!

 

[Daniël]

I've been cracking it too, on my end it's an Apple MoviePlayer QuickTime video, showing a graphic of a car as well as the text Marco, followed by presumably the photo of Marco, who I also presume is heard talking.

 

[LaPorta]

It is an early QuickTime movie. QT 3.0 plays it just fine. Resource forks are also intact since it was wrapped in a DD archive. I have re-packaged it in Stuffit 1.5.1 format. Note: new QT under OS X will NOT play this file. I will see if I can reformat it into something newer.

 

[LaPorta]

Updated to play on modern QuickTime:

 

[Daniël]

I noticed that converted one's audio, due to the non-standard sample rate, didn't play the audio properly on my PC (skipping, and too high pitched). This one has been run through FFMPEG to replace the audio with 22KHz MP3, just in case it might be an issue for the father and son on their devices.

 

[LaPorta]

I noticed that converted one's audio, due to the non-standard sample rate, didn't play the audio properly on my PC (skipping, and too high pitched). This one has been run through FFMPEG to replace the audio with 22KHz MP3, just in case it might be an issue for the father and son on their devices.

Sorry...I always assume people just have a Mac with QuickTime like I do...

 

[Daniël]

Sorry...I always assume people just have a Mac with QuickTime like I do...

Haha, it might just be VLC not handling it right, so who knows. In the end, I think @mgmac can make some people very happy with this (no longer) lost memory

 

[CC_333]

The speech is there...sounds like Spanish or Portuguese or something.

Since @mgmac is from Italy, I'd guess that what you're hearing is probably Italian, which sounds somewhat similar, and is related to, both Spanish and Portuguese (all three are members of the romance language family).

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[mgmac]

thank you guys! you were all super
Thank you, thank you very much the person and son of him
Yes exactly it's a recording of an Italian nursery rhyme recited by a child 30 years ago, so not so much a child now
Thank you all for your invaluable help