K3B won't Accept wav. files

[Jim]

On 12/04/2010 08:55 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 20:23 -0500, Jim wrote:
>> Trying to Burn Audio  CD in K3B, but K3B won't accept ,wav files,
>> It says to convert files to .wav format, they are .wav files.
> Are they really wav files, or merely files with a .wav file suffix?
> It's not unknown to someone to name things wrongly, or think they can
> convert a file simply by renaming it, or for Windows to (bizarrely)
> use .wav as a container for another format.  You can use the "file"
> command to find out.
>
> e.g. file example.wav
>
> Another possibility is how the wav files are construed (bit rate,
> headerless raw files, etc.).  They might not be recognisable, or be an
> unsupported type.
>
Using file   this is what I get.

$ file JJ_BCmas.wav
JJ_BCmas.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, MPEG Layer 3, mono 
12000 Hz