Adrian Tuddenham wrote:
wrote:

as long as you have some flavor of OS X,

I haven't, this is OS 8.6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_8 says...

Latest release 8.6 / May 10, 1999; 19 years ago

I bought a PC with a Pentium-100 and DOS 6.22 in 1995 and used it, with
some upgrades, as a daily driver until 2008. (Among other things, it
ended up with a K6-2 400 and Linux.) Then I built this PC in 2008, with
an AMD Athlon 64 x2 3.2 GHz and Linux, and I'm still using it 11 years
later.

Having said all that... sometimes ya gotta buy a new computer.

Or at least a *newer* computer. If you get a Mac that's new enough for
OS X, you instantly get access to a lot of software that was developed
for Linux. If it's an older version of OS X, you might not be able to
use the very latest version of such software, but you can still use it.

If you don't want to spend very much money, don't mind doing more work,
and if you can drive Linux, you can get a Raspberry Pi Zero W for about
$5. Install Sox on the Pi. scp the .wav file from the Mac into it, SSH
into it, use Sox to convert it to .aiff, scp the .aiff back to the Mac,
and work on it in your preferred editor. Or, for a little more setup
work, install Netatalk on the Pi, so it will show up as a shared drive
on your Mac. Write yourself a shell script that runs on the Pi,
watching the shared directory, to automatically convert any .wav files
that get dumped there.

Matt Roberds