What do you do when ur supposed to get an mp3 file but you get a .gz intsead?

Cheez

got 3 bloody files and all of em are zipped .gz files when i wanted mp3s
anyone know how to convert these babys?
or play them somehow

WhiteWashMan

change the extension to .mp3?

MrBlonde

as I said last nite cheez

rename .gz to .MP3

MrBlonde

am .. you might need an MP3 doctor utility for the specific file ye had probs wif .. can't think of url here off-hand.

Oh and I remembered it's Motion Pictures Expert summin .. hate those 4:30 am memory blocks. played fer 5 hrs after ye left

Cheez

how do you change the extention to .mp3 when its seen as a .zip file

WhiteWashMan

either unzip it. if its not a valid zip file then right click on the file, choose rename from the options menu and change the extension from .zip or whatever to mp3

easy peasy.
believe me. it does work. if you cant do that i'll start to respect my american callers coz i found someone to make their intelligence gleam

Cheez

yea it does work thanks eamo but i wanted to know how! to change the extention from .gz to .mp3 which ye do from dos i have been told and now i have no problem
its just a matter of goin inta dos and typing "rename *.gz *.mp3"
see thats what i didnt know how to do!
ta fer that polititians son

WhiteWashMan

just a bit of da ol curiosity gettin the better of me here but........

why do you have to do it through dos?
whenever ive done its been through windows.

and whats this about being a polititions son?

MrBlonde

LOL WWM, I think he got if de yanks

Eoin, I said it ya be4. I ain't no friggin politians son.

J[Ch]eez, some ppl.

Oh and where'd ya go, ye unj00lin' faT BaSt|d

quozl

Hi,
gz is the extension for gzip, its a unix standard compression. So decompress it Don't think winzip does the fo0rmat, but theres bound to be a gunzip on download.com.
Or if that fails, install linux and use that one
Quozl

Chaos

No you just rename it to .mp3....people upload these mp3's to free web sites like geocities as .gz so they wont be deleted by the admin people.

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Hecate

its a common trick.

ppl store them in a directory called "images" or somthing and name them with a .sit, .class , .gz extension or whatever. I've even seen some disguised as MS word 6.0 docs ...bit of a shock for the poor sap who tries to open it.