[NTLK] Looking for the Sound2Pkg application

[Morgan Aldridge]

On Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:41:09 +0900
Vladislav Korotnev <vladkorotnev at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 12, 2025, 07:23 Grant Hutchinson <grant at splorp.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am looking for a copy of Sound2Pkg, a Classic Mac application
> > developed by Nobuo Kawaguchi of Nagoya University that could
> > convert Mac OS sound files to Newton packages. There’s a listing
> > for it on an archived version of the Japan Newton Information (JNI)
> > site, but no download link.
> >
> > <
> > https://web.archive.org/web/19990203123901/http://www.sakabe.nuie.nagoya-u.ac.jp/newton/nagoya-u/#sound
> > >
> >
> > Has anyone ever run across this software?
> >
> Don't wanna sound too obvious, but pretty sure I've ran across that
> on UNNA about 1.5 decades ago. It might have been in one of the
> unsorted directories.

It sounds _extremely_ familiar to me, as well, but I can find no trace
of it on UNNA. The only '*2Pkg' files or folders (case-insensitive
searches, naturally) I can find on either www.unna.org or
mirrors.unna.org are for Pict2Pkg.

> I definitely do have one of the sounds I made with it back then, but
> don't think I have the software, I'll take a look on my NAS and post
> back if I find it.

Crossing my fingers that you or someone else has it stashed away.

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