[LAU] Alsa and 24-bit in Ubuntu Studio?

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+la at mega-nerd.com
Tue Mar 5 01:34:33 UTC 2013


Grekim Jennings wrote:

> I'm checking out Ubuntu Studio 12.04,  64-bit.  When I try to play a 
> wave file with using aplay <name of file>,  I am told it is an 
> unsupported format (and the file is identified correctly as 3 byte 
> signed little endian mono) and it lists the available formats of little 
> and big endian versions of 16 and 32 bit and 32 float, and even 8 bit.  
> What happened to 24 bit?  Can I add it?  Thanks.

sndfile-play (in the Ubuntu package sndfile-programs) should play these
files.

Erik
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