From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik de Castro Lopo Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 20:10:20 +0000 Subject: WAV players (was Re: awe64 not initializing on 2.2.2) Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org Michael B. Trausch wrote: > > Some .WAV files (most notably any that were introduced in the Windows 95 > era) don't play at all-- they're just garble. There are over thirty different kinds of .wav files. Utilities like wavplay can only play the PCM encoded type (fortunately the most common). The palyer included with SoX can also play ADPCM encoded wav files. > > And many, if they're not garble, they play at 1/2 the speed of normal > playback. Solution: Get a program that supports these files. Yep. I do recomend the player that comes with SoX. See : http://home.sprynet.com/~cbagwell/sox.html > I'm not sure where to look, but I'm sure that Freshmeat wouldn't be a bad > place to start. http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_soundapps.html is even better for audio stuff. Erik -- +-------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo erikd@zip.com.au +-------------------------------------------------+ "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981