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... A107;ADPCM;2CC;A;ADPCM;;G726 A109;Speex;2CC;A;;;;http://www.speex.org/ If this is the only file you have like this, I suggest you either install FFmpeg and see if the file is understood, or play the file in Windows Media Player and record it into Audacity. See Tutorial - Recording Computer Playback ...

I made up a simple stereo WAV file and it's bitrate is 1,412 Kbps. So you have an odd duck. If you have FFMpeg installed and it still won't open, then you may have a damaged file.

Koz

And don't forget that WAVE is a container format that can contain a whole lot of different (compressed and uncompressed) audio formats! This includes various flavors of uncompressed PCM , which is the most common use of WAVE, but it also includes various compressed formats like ADPCM, AC3, DTS, MP3,...

... vary with the sample rate, but depth, and number of channels that you choose when you open the "raw" data.) Did you install the optional FFMPEG import/export library? It works with most compressed formats. If you open a compressed file as raw audio data, you're going to get noise. If ...

... WAV files to burn onto Digital Audio CDs to play on elderly CD players. It hasn't worked reliably for me so far. Audcaity version 2.0.6 Retrieving FFmpeg library version numbers: 06:52:10: AVCodec version 0x373466 - 55.52.102 (built against 0x373466 - 55.52.102) 06:52:10: AVFormat version 0x372164 ...

... may contain malware. A difference between your "may" and my "probably", then. ;) As our recommended download site for LAME and FFmpeg says: Banners that look like BIG GREEN DOWNLOAD ARROWS are usually MALWARE. Avoid those banners. Our download partners do not condone adverts ...

... problem. Impossible to say without knowing what version of VLC you have. But anyway, I recently downgraded to 2.0.5 and used the older version of FFmpeg. Everything works great... again. I'm really disappointed to hear that. The last thing we want is for you to be compelled to use 2.0.5 because ...

Gale Andrews wrote: I think that is something peculiar to your development environment

"peculiar" – the perfect word <grin>!

... settings. Same problem. I uninstalled 2.0.5, then deleted the remaining directory. I then installed 2.0.6 and said no. Same problem. I installed ffmpeg and used it but still had half the problem as mention in the original post. It crashed and then it had a problem with loading ffmpeg afterward, ...

... either... I don't know. And maybe I wasn't being clear on this point but they weren't installed at the same time. I tried the automatic install of FFmpeg (which installs it on C:) and Audacity failed to detect it, then I tried to locate it manually and that didn't yield anything either. Then, I ...