SndToWAV

A utility to convert 'snd ' Apple Sound Manager sounds to WAV.

Features

• Easily extract sound samples from .rsrc files.
• Supports all sound header formats.
• Supports IMA4, MACE 3:1, μ-law and a-law compression.
• (Should be) platform independent.

Limitations

• Only supports sounds containing a single sound sample, and nothing else.
• Can only output .wav files.

Installation

Dependencies

• git (recommended)
• cmake>=3.7.0
• Your favorite C++11 compliant compiler

Building

To download and build, execute:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/fordcars/SndToWAV
cd SndToWAV && mkdir build && cd build
cmake ../src
make

The executable will be in the bin directory.

Usage

SndToWAV -input INPUT_FILE [-blocksize BLOCKSIZE]
    [-ID RESOURCE_ID | -name RESOURCE_NAME] [-verbose]
    
 --help, --h            display help

 -input                 resource fork (.rsrc file) containing 'snd ' resources

Optional options:
 -blocksize             blocksize of the resource fork, in bytes (default is 4096)
 -ID                    ID of sound resource to extract
 -name                  name of sound resource to extract
 -verbose               enable verbose logging

If no ID or name is specified, will extract all sounds from the resource fork.

Additional credits

• jorio and ffmpeg for MACE decoding. See MACEDecoder.cpp for copyright and license notices.
• jorio for μ-law and a-law decoding. See XLawDecoder.cpp for copyright and license notices.