[asterisk-users] SLN File Format

[Steve Totaro]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:00:18AM +0100, Adrian Marsh wrote:
>  > Hi All,
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > Whats the SLN file format (for import/export to Audacity)?
>  >
>  > Need to avoid Sox if I can
>
>  export it as "wav". It's basically the same as "SLN", but with an extra
>  header that tells everyone what the exact format is. Thus Audacity will
>  not need you to enter parameters in the import dialog.
>
>  The only downside is that you can simply concatenate two files using
>  'cat file1 file2 >file1file2' with wav as you can with raw formats
>  (provided that both originals are of the same format), because the
>  header is not part of the stream.
>
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I was under the impression that ulaw/alaw was the closest to slin.
While it may not be practical for this usage, am I correct?

Thanks,
Steve T