audio/media files .tar gz

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Hi !

.tar.gz is a GZIPped TAR (Archive) File. It 'contains' files which are audio/media files. The .tar.gz files themselves do not contain media data (like .WMA or MP3 etc.).

You need to use one of the many following programs to extract audio/media files and then play them using other softwares (Windows Media Player, etc.).

It depends on which OS platform you want to run the program (Freeware) on.

For Windows, you can try WinZIP (which supports .tar.gz option and can extract files within the archive). You can visit http://www.winzip.com for more information on this. There are plenty of web-sites that allow you to download FREE version of the same program (Eg. Winzip 8.0 etc.).

For Unix-flavoured OSes, you can try 'gunzip' (part of GZIP utility). This is a freeware (part of GNU).

HTH.

BR,

Govinda Padaki

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http://www.7-zip.org/

Its native (7zip) format is extremely efficient, resulting in smaller compressed files.

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Full Description:

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if you have internet connection, just run any unkown program/ file and it will prompt you to choose whether you find the program to be used to read it, manually or let it find the program to be used to read the file, automatically through internet. Just choose the latter, its easier!

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