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ESU Sound project export to Digitrax Sound Project?

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ESU Sound project export to Digitrax Sound Project?
Posted by BuhlModelTrainSociety on Monday, February 18, 2019 8:11 PM

I have an electric locomotive New Jersey Transit ALP-46 and the sound files for that locomotive is on ESU Loksounds with the extensions (*.esux, *.lls, *.esu). I know that digitrax sound end with *.spj. I there a way to export ESU Loksound file to Digitrax? 

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Posted by wjstix on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:25 PM

I do know that the individual sound files for Digitrax are .wav files; I have altered a few Digitrax sound projects by substituting one .wav file for another. So you may not be able to do an entire project all at once, but there might be a way to download the ESU project and then pull out the individual sounds and convert them to .wav files?

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Posted by BigDaddy on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 4:37 PM

In the Loksound Yahoo Group, in the files section, there is

LokSoundsExtractor.exe Extractor program for Loksound projects, to get to the seperate WAV files that are in them.

JMRI I think has a tool to work with wav and digitax.  I cannot offer any real advice on how to do either.

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Posted by Mark R. on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 7:08 PM

That Extractor Tool only worked on the very early ESU files. It won't work on any file that is currently available today. 

Sound companies put a lot of time and effort creating their files - they aren't going to let you easily "steal" them for your own personal use.

Mark.

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Posted by rrinker on Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:15 PM

 Put a Loksound in the loco and use the file. You'll be happier in the long run. Both the sound quality and motor drive are better with Loksound. And I say that as a user of a Digitrax system, which I love. Their decoders, not so much.

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