aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 !??

[jack craig]

hi stan,

may i ask how you made this determination?

i have long wanted to know how to decipher audio formats at the byte level.
or did you use the file cmd?

tia, jackc...

On 09/04/2009 08:10 AM, stan wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:34:19 -0400
> William Case<billlinux at rogers.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 16:24 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>      
>>> file ~/Music/babycry.wav
>>>        
>> $ file ~/Music/babycry.wav
>> /home/bill/Music/babycry.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio,
>> MPEG Layer 3, mono 11025 Hz
>>
>>      
> This is an mp3 file.  aplay doesn't know how to play those, it is a
> simple low level application that can only deal with standard wav
> formats.  Rename it with an mp3 extension instead of wav.  It isn't a
> wav file.  Or run sox and convert it into a true wav file.
>
>    

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