# Cannot play wav files made by wav-file-sink on many softwares

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**Created:** [September 11, 2014, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-play-wav-files-made-by-wav-file-sink-on-many-softwares/231988 "2014-09-11T10:00:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 11, 2014, 10:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/cannot-play-wav-files-made-by-wav-file-sink-on-many-softwares/231988/1 "2014-09-11T10:00:04Z")

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Hello.

I use gnuradio on ubuntu14.04.  
I made wav files new ones by band-pass-filter.  
I saved new ones as wav file by wav-file-sink.

The new wav files can be played by video software being as default on  
ubuntu.  
But the file cannot be played on windows media player and aimp, cubase,  
studio one, reaper, and so on.  
In addition, though I would edit the file by “sox” command, I could not  
do that.  
The files made by “sox” command are silent and 0:00.

Moreover wav files edited by cubase cannot be inputted by  
wav-file-source on gnuradio.  
By “sox file.wav -b 16 new-file.wav” on terminal, I can made the files  
by cubase inputted to gnuradio.

From the above,  
I suspect that the wav files inputted or outputted by gnuradio are  
different from other wav files.

Is there anyone having same trouble?  
Who have any solutions?

Thank you for reading.