aplay: test_wavefile:807: can't play WAVE-file format 0x0055 !??

[Michael Schwendt]

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.