On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:35:43 +0000, William wrote: > Tried > ]$ play ~/Music/babycry.wav > play formats: can't open input file `/home/bill/Music/babycry.wav': > Unhandled WAV file encoding (MP3). > Try overriding the encoding: e.g. for an MP3 WAV, `-t mp3' > ]$ play -t mp3 ~/Music/babycry.wav > play formats: no handler for given file type `mp3' Superfluous test, because obviously Fedora's "sox" /usr/bin/play cannot be built with MP3 support. > -- no sound. That is OK, I'll chase your advice down a little. > e.g. questions like "Why is a .wav not a .wav?" The single file extension .WAV does only say what type of container format is being used (RIFF->WAVE), but not what type of data is stored within the container. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAV or alternative documentation on RIFF WAVE. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
