.wav files in Rhythmbox?

Question

The default music player does not play .wav files. Please help me.

Solution

you can use vlc or install codecs of it through internet...

Comments

[Admin]

I was able to play .wav files on Rhythmbox but some I'd taken off of newer CDs (one was from 2013) wouldn't play. Rhythmbox told me I need a "demuxer" but it was unable to find Ubuntu software for this. (Sorry this isn't an actual solution but I thought it might contribute to resolving the problem.)

[Minimus Heximus]

very interesting

[Csabi Vidó]

WAV uses PCM and to my knowledge there is no restriction (anymore) that prohibits using these without paying license fees or what ever applies. Suggesting to install restricted formats is misleading in this case.

[Csabi Vidó]

There is no WAV on a CD. The software used in Ubuntu is actually aware that if a user inserts an Audio CD into a computer that the content should be made available to the user in the most convenient way, thus changing the format on the fly and presenting the whole CD as a bunch of WAV files. This kind of fast extraction may give inaccurate results due to scratches or how the drive generally accesses the CD. That's why EAC and cdparanoia where made.

[Mark Rooney]

you may be right NOW but in 2010.......

[Chinmaya B]

This is not the answer please give any suggestion's (if you have) to run a wav file on ubuntu??

[Csabi Vidó]

As I said Rhythmbox wants to create a library out of tags. If you feed such music players files without such metadata they refuse or declare them as non-tagged rubbish, because you are not using the software the way intended. Use lossless formats like FLAC that support tag metadata or use another software like mplayer, VLC or whatever.

[mchid]

@LiveWireBT Other users report an error on Rhythmbox that says you need: "Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) demuxer" for certain wav files. Isn't this provided by the restricted extras package? I have looked around and people say that you need the restricted extras or the gstreamer ugly and bad plugins.