[PLUG] soundfile formats hurting head

[Carla Schroder]

hey all,

My google-fu has failed me- Asterisk gives three choices for the format for 
recording voicemail files: wav49, gsm, and wav. wav49 is GSM-compressed wave- 
both it and gsm are highly compressed, about one-tenth the size of wav files, 
and are good-enough for voice recordings. wav is the best sound quality, but 
it's way too fat. I'd like to use just wav49.

What I'm having trouble finding out is what client systems support them? wav 
is everywhere, but is wav49 well-supported on Linux and Mac OSX? Can OSX and 
windoze play gsm files without major tweakage?

thanks!
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