[PLUG] WAV files?

Roderick A. Anderson raanders at acm.org
Thu Jul 6 17:39:06 UTC 2006


John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Someone sent me some linguistics data in WAV file format. Turns out I
> have nothing that will play them (RealPlayer, Audacity. RhythmBox,
> xmms). They all say they can't open the files -- sometimes the error
> message sounds like something else has the file open (but nothing else
> does). They play fine on my Windows desktop. I know I could convert
> them to mp3s with lame, but I'd rather figure out what is wrong and fix
> it. Any ideas what might be wrong? Or is there a better WAV file player
> I should be using?

Depending on your distribution you might be able to try -- play myfile.wav

Works on FC4


Rod
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