On Friday 06 February 2004 19:20, Rob Weir wrote: >> Something is wrong with the wav file, or it is some non-standard >> format. So WAVE is not one standard format but a collection of various (presumably related) formats? > On this note, what does "file" say the type of the file is? $ file start.wav start.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 A-law, mono 8000 Hz -- Adam