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Re:MP3 to EXE (1999) by M95D on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:31AM (#41848402)
It brings back lots of memories. There was even a way to pack an MP3 in a .wav file so it could play on Win31 players that didn't have native support for MP3, using Windows' codec instead.

Also, from the same site:

https://www.rarewares.org/rrw/cooledit.php

A program that I remember using back then. It's less than 1 MB, but has most of the features of Audacity today.

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Re:MP3 to EXE (1999) by afandian on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @10:14AM (#41848840)
CoolEdit Pro was bought by Adobe and became Audition.

https://www.adobe.com/special/products/audition/syntrillium....

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Re:MP3 to EXE (1999) by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @09:54AM (#41848621)
> There was even a way to pack an MP3 in a .wav file so it could play on Win31 players that didn't have native support for MP3, using Windows' codec instead.

Pack, or re-encode?

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Re:MP3 to EXE (1999) by LarsAlereon on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @10:25AM (#41848974)
As I recall, it was wasn't decompressed, the MP3 data was written into a WAV file with a RIFF header. There were situations where you had a decoder available, but couldn't get your app to recognize that MP3 files were audio.
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Re:MP3 to EXE (1999) by dzidol on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @10:32AM (#41849045)
Pack. WAV doesn't need to store header and raw PCM data (which it usually does though), it's just a container.
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Re:MP3 to EXE (1999) by 0xfeba on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @10:31AM (#41849035)
Wow! I had a copy Cool Edit from a CompuServe CD, IIRC. That got me into audio editing and making my own ringtones and whatnot.
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Re:MP3 to EXE (1999) by adzm on Tuesday October 15, 2024 @10:38AM (#41849090)
Cool Edit still exists! Though it got bought by Adobe and is now Adobe Audition!
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