How to unattach & save a sound out of an email?

I don’t think I’ve seen this question anywhere, maybe because I’m the only weirdo who would like to know.

I’m trying to save a background sound by Enya from an email, and I can’t figure out how to do it. I’m running OLExpress 6.0. I know how to ATTACH a background sound, but I don’t know how to find it separately so I can save it separately, like saving an email attachment, or saving email "stationery."

I actually saved the email to the desktop to see if the sound file is embedded in the email itself "“ it seems to be, it still plays itself on the desktop (of course, even on the desktop, OLExpress is still still the program that opens it). When I go into "view source," I am seeing this for sound: cid:002a01c4cf8f$b79736f0$0200a8c0@meowlxt3i7xqt5

Does that mean that it connects to a server somewhere to play the sound? this doesn’t look like a url. Where is this sound file? This email is like 4th or 5th generation forwarded to me, and the email itself is about 850+/- kb in size, but of course that may be because of all the gaudy stationery graphics in it. I’m also seeing another string which may be related to sound:
<TD id=mod_EDISOUND vAlign=bottom…

Does anyone know if embedded sounds can be "unattached" from stationery (like pictures)? Just curious…

maureen

 

Hi Maureen!

I did that some time ago and as I recall the procedure involved choosing "Forward" on the OE menu and then either defer sending it or send it to your self. I think either way works. Then you should see the music as an attachment which can be saved separately.

I don't know if that will work for other than OE though.

Good luck and post back if that fails to work for you. Then I'll dig up my archived mail and refresh my memory.

 

That was easier than I thought. I found my record of that process still hanging on to my stacker clipboard, to wit:

To strip the embedded sound from a message you have received that has "Background" sound:

Open OE mailbox and click on the TOOLS menu and select OPTIONS . Click on the SEND tab and make sure that you have PLAIN TEXT selected and not Html for the "Mail Sending Format." Also make sure you have a checkmark on "Include message in reply" and no checkmark for "Reply to messages using the format in which they were sent." Then click OK.

Now the only thing you have to do is to highlight the mail message with the embedded sound in your preview window and click FORWARD . Midi and wave files and all the images will be attached to the forwarded mail. Then click on FILE > SAVE ATTACHMENTS and send the attached sound file to your chosen location. You can then close the message being forwarded without saving it and return your setting back to HTML for sending messages and recheck the box for "Reply to messages in the same format in which they were sent. "

 

AWESOME, surferdude! Worked beautifully!

It never would have occurred to me to go into such a retrogressive mode to find that. FYI, the embedded wav file accounts for the lion's share of the size of this email - it's almost half a mb.

Am enjoying listening to this piece even now, as I'm replying.

Thanks so much!!!

-maureen

 

My pleasure! Thanks for the report so others can benefit from this little know and seldom used retrogressive research.