aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 !??
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 14:24:53 UTC 2009
On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:16:05 +0000, William wrote:
> Hi;
>
> Tried
> ]$ aplay ~/Music/babycry.wav
>
> I got the following error message:
>
> aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 which is
> not PCM or FLOAT encoded.
>
> What does it mean? How can I fix it?
>
> Tried a couple of Ubuntu solutions from a year ago I found on the
> internet. They didn't help.
>
> I do get sound with mplayer.
What do you get for "file ~/Music/babycry.wav"?
/usr/bin/play from sox is superior as it supports several special
encodings used within the RIFF/WAV container format.
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