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Very weird .wav playback problem - Misty


Posted: Aug 31, 2010

I have some .wav files I need to load into Express Scribe for a potential placement with a company for school. They will not play in windows media player, or Express Scribe. In ES it says "Opening audio file failed." After this I even downloaded other .wav files for school and they work and play just fine. I am totally at a loss as to why these particular files won't play. Another student said they are working fine for her. Any ideas?

When I've received the same error... - PhillyMT

[ In Reply To ..]
It was because the file didn't download properly. Usually re-downloading the file fixed the problem. My internet goes in and out frequently, and if it goes out in the middle of downloading a file it'll say that the download completed but that error will pop up whenever I try to play the audio.

Good luck!

CODECS - Misty

[ In Reply To ..]
Thanks PhillyMT but this didn't work either. I even tried opening it on another computer, yet one of my classmates opened the files fine.

Finally after MUCH searching. It has to do with me using Windows 7. Apparently Windows 7 and Windows Vista (anything that succeeded XP) they did not include certain audio codecs.

I downloaded a program called GSpot to find out what codec the files used and if I had it. I did not. The codec is what they use to compress the audio files. The one I needed (and apparently a lot of people run into the same one with the same problem) is DSP group True Speech. I was able to easily download this from the bytescribe website. Voila! Files are working now.


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