A.4 Multimedia

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audiodev: -- Platform-independent API for playing audio data.
linuxaudiodev: -- Play audio data on the Linux audio device. Replaced in Python 2.3 by the ossaudiodev module.
sunaudio: -- Interpret Sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo).
toaiff: -- Convert "arbitrary" sound files to AIFF files; should probably become a tool or demo. Requires the external program sox.
ossaudiodev: -- Play audio data via the Open Sound System API. This is usable on Linux, some flavors of BSD, and some commercial Unix platforms.

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