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479Chapter 19Playing Music and VideoFile Extension DescriptionFile Extension Descriptionor Pseudonymor Pseudonym.hcomMacintosh HCOM files..maudAmiga format used toproduce sound that is 8-bit linear, 16-bit linear, A-law, and u-law in monoor stereo. .oggOgg Vorbis compressed .ossdspPseudo file, used to open audio, which is best used the OSS /dev/dsp file and for compressing music configure it to use the data and streaming audio.type passed to SoX. Usedto either play or record. .prcPsion record.app format, .sfIRCAM sound files, used newer than the WVE by CSound package and format.MixView sample editor. .sphSpeech audio SPHERE .smpSampleVision files from (Speech Header Resources)Turtle Beach, used to format from NIST (Nationalcommunicate with Institute of Standards anddifferent MIDI samplers. Technology). .sunauPseudo file, used to open .txwYamaha TX-16W from a /dev/audiofile and a Yamaha sampling set it to use the data type keyboard. being passed to SoX. .vmsUsed to compress speech .vocSound Blaster VOC file. audio for voice mail and similar applications. .wavMicrosoft WAV RIFF files. .wve8-bit, a-law, 8 KHz sound This is the native Microsoft files used with Psion Windows sound format.Palmtop computers. .rawRaw files (contain no .ub, .sb, Raw files with set charac- header information, so .uw, .sw, teristics. ub is unsigned sample rate, size, and style .ul, .al, byte; sb is signed byte; must be given)..lu, .la, uw is unsigned word; sw .slis signed word; and ul isu-law. If you are not sure about the format of an audio file, you can add the .autoextensionto the filename. This triggers SoX to guess what kind of audio format is contained inthe file. The .autoextension can only be used for the input file. If SoX can figureout the content of the input file, it translates the contents to the sound type for theoutput file you request.