[SWLUG] audio file format query

[Justin Mitchell]

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 21:22, bascule wrote:
> i have some wav files created by my digital camera, they play fine in winxp 
> and according to media player they are:
> 32kbps
> 4 bit sample
> mono
> 8khz sample rate
> ima adpcm format
> 
> i can't get these to play using noatun,xmms or alsaplayer but i can use 
> 'play' from the command line is there some obvious explanation for this, what 
> should i convert them to with sox to play in the above apps if they are 
> already wavs?

Well 'play' is just a shell script wrapper for sox,
should be too hard to work out what options play is passing to sox.

You most likely need to convert the number of bits to something more
sane, like 8bit.