jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:

> Following the number of people who have pointed out that winsound
> takes the audio file name to be what is said, and does not add .wav or
> .aif to teh name, do you'll think that it shoudl add suffix if one is
> not given explicitely?  Woudl be easy enough to do but I worry that it
> will then be hard to create an audio file without a suffix.

When would it be useful to have an audio file without a suffix? Even if
you are using the generated result as a control file (i.e. to fill a
table), it still makes sense to have a suffix.  You can always remove
the suffix in Windows Explorer.

On the other hand, how hard is it to type .wav or .aiff on the end of a
file? I would fear that having an automatic suffix would produce strange
results, such as .aiff files being renamed .wav, or files having names
like composition.wav.wav (I've had enough random things like this happen
in Winsound, using involving a mismatch between file suffix and the true
file format). Also, just as you can remove the suffix in Windows
Explorer, you can always add one there, too.