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

[Grekim Jennings]

On 03/04/2013 08:34 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 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
>    
Okay, thank you.  I just find it strange that my non-audio Debian 
Squeeze system will play it and an actual audio distro will not.