What is 8MED?

To open 8MED files: SoundApp

SoundApp is a freeware audio player for the Macintosh operating system. It was among the earliest MP3 players for the Classic Mac OS, and was widely praised for its ability to play back, and convert between, a variety of audio file formats.

The following sound file formats are supported:

- SoundCap (including Huffman-compressed) and Studio Session Instruments,
- SoundEdit (including stereo, MACE-3 and MACE-6),
- AIFF, AIFF-C (8-, 12-, 16-, 24- and 32-bit, MACE-3, MACE-6, IMA 4:1, µ-law and and QuickTime codecs),
- System sound and 'snd ' resource (including MACE-3, MACE-6, IMA 4:1 and µ-law),
- QuickTime MooV (soundtracks only, including MIDI movies),
- Sun Audio .au and NeXT .snd (including µ-law, a-law, 8-, 16-, 24- and 32-bit linear, 32- and 64-bit floating point, G.721 ADPCM and G.723 ADPCM),
- Windows WAVE (including MPEG Layer III, GSM-, IMA- and MS ADPCM-compressed, µ-law and a-law, 8-, 16- and 32-bit linear),
- MPEG audio (layers I, II and III, requires a PowerPC processor for playback),
- Iomega RecordIT,
- CD audio,
- Sound Blaster VOC (including 8-, 16-bit and stereo),
- Atari AVR (including stereo and 8- and 16-bit),
- many varieties of MODs,
- ScreamTracker 3 module (S3M),
- Multitracker module (MTM),
- Impulse Tracker module (IT) (except those with compressed instruments; requires a PowerPC processor),
- MIDI (type 0, 1 and 2, including GS and XG),
- Amiga IFF/8SVX (including stereo and compressed),
- Sound Designer
- Sound Designer II (include split stereo),
- IRCAM (8-, 16-bit and 32-bit floating point),
- Ensoniq PARIS,
- Psion Series 3 and EPOC 32 (Psion Series 5) sound,
- Nomad II voice (preliminary support),
- DVI ADPCM and
- raw GSM.

SoundApp can convert all of these formats except MIDI to:

- System sound and sound suitcase (linear, µ-law, MACE-3, MACE-6 and IMA encodings),
- AIFF (linear, µ-law, MACE-3, MACE-6 and IMA encodings including split stereo),
- WAVE (linear, µ-law, a-law and IMA encodings),
- Sun Audio and NeXT (linear, µ-law and a-law encodings),
- Sound Designer II (including split stereo),
- QuickTime (linear, µ-law, MACE-3, MACE-6 and IMA encodings),
- Psion Series 3,
- EPOC 32 (Psion Series 5) and
- PARIS sound formats.