This comment hasn't been true since Python 3.0.
samples in a file. AIFF-C is a newer version of the format that includes the
ability to compress the audio data.
-.. note::
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- Some operations may only work under IRIX; these will raise :exc:`ImportError`
- when attempting to import the :mod:`cl` module, which is only available on
- IRIX.
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Audio files have a number of parameters that describe the audio data. The
sampling rate or frame rate is the number of times per second the sound is
sampled. The number of channels indicate if the audio is mono, stereo, or