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I've been trying to play some of the 16-bit stereo .wav files in Windows 95
(like 'Jungle Open.wav', which wavplay021 claims is a 'Stereo, rate 22050
Hz, 16 bits'.

It barfs right away on finding a bad value for head->data. Has the .wav
format changed between win3.1 and win95?

sox is also badly screwed up by this file:

  sox 'Jungle Open.wav' -t .au > /dev/{audio,dsp}

both produce just a screech.

Both sort of handle a Mono, 22kHz, 8-bit .wav file from the same directory
(again, sort of: I had to patch wavplay to pick up what I thought was an
appropriate value of head->data, from a word next to where it was trying
to pick it up; however, the result is extremely noisy).

(By the way, I'm running the OSS (non-free) sound driver on a 2.0.18
(RedHat) kernel. I can play other formats (like .au) well: I just tried
"xboing -sound" :-).

Has anyone managed to play these Win95 .wav files cleanly?

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Quote:>I've been trying to play some of the 16-bit stereo .wav files in Windows 95
>(like 'Jungle Open.wav', which wavplay021 claims is a 'Stereo, rate 22050
>Hz, 16 bits'.

>It barfs right away on finding a bad value for head->data. Has the .wav
>format changed between win3.1 and win95?

Quote:>Has anyone managed to play these Win95 .wav files cleanly?

-=-marduk-=-

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You know you've been spending too much time on the computer when your
friend misdates a check, and you suggest adding a "++" to fix it.

The kind folks at 4Front pointed me to a little tool of theirs called
/usr/lib/oss/play, which also worked great.

I was looking for some application I could stick into my .mailcap file
to play (unattended) any arbitrary sound clip. Looks like xanim comes
closest to what I want, if only I could have a non-windowing mode (no
controls, no "video" window, ..).

Thanks for the many suggestions that have poured in by E-mail..
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Chromatic Research                            (408) 752-9488