Importing sound effects

I have a small collection of sound bites of my kids from 1996 that I recorded on my mac.I do not remember the OS. I would like to use them in my sound effects file in 10.4.5. I have dragged them to the sound file in the library. They show up in the list but do not play.I have tried to import them into itunes and confert them to aiff files without success. I get a message from itunes saying the selected file ( on a zip disk or desktop...i tried both) can not be converted. I have tried "add to library" and nothing really happens...I can't find an imported sound in itunes. If I look under "get info" about the files they come up as a sound file and if I click on "play sound" they will play. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks DVF

Nothing wrong with the previous suggestion, but before buying QT Pro, I would invest a bit more effort in trying to accomplish your objective. Your original post doesn't seem to indicate the format (or just the extension) of the sound files, so if you could check into that using the Finder and report the information, that would be quite beneficial.

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