478Part IVRunning (Web design programs) ApplicationsTools that come with Fedora Core
478Part IVRunning ApplicationsTools that come with Fedora Core for converting and compressing audio filesinclude: .sox(SoX) A general-purpose tool for converting audio files among a varietyof formats. .oggenc A tool for specifically converting music files to Ogg Vorbis format. Converting Audio Files with SoXIf you have a sound file in one format, but you want it to be in another format, Linuxoffers some conversion tools. The SoX utility can translate to and from any of theaudio formats listed in Table 19-1. Type sox -hto see the supported audio types, as well as supported options andeffects. Table 19-1Sound Formats Supported by SoX UtilityFile Extension DescriptionFile Extension Descriptionor Pseudonymor Pseudonym.8svx8SVX Amiga musical instru-.aiffApple IIc/IIgs and SGI AIFF ment description format. files. May require a sepa- rate archiver to work withthese files. .au,.sndSun Microsystems AU .avrAudio Visual Research audio files. This was once aformat, used on the Mac. popular format. The .snd extension is ambiguous because it s also been usedon NeXT format and head- erless Mac/PC format.) .cdrCD-R files used to master .cvsContinuously variable slope compact disks.delta modulation, which isused for voice mail andother speech compression. .datText data files, which con-.gsmLossy Speech Compression tain a text representation (GSM 06.10), used to of sound data.shrink audio data in voice mail and similarapplications. Tip27_