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I had the same problem reading .wav files. I could not get them to work properly.
After looking alot around the web, my problem was that .wav are essentially made for some Windows software. So I just needed to install a tarball that made it recognize the Windows format of these files.
If you want to try it out, the tarball is called essential. I have "essential-20050216" version. It could be that you find some newer version. You decompress the tarball and copy its content to the directory (that I had to create) "/usr/lib/win32/".
Did you problem happened with files that use to work? Because, if it is with new files that you just put on your system, the coding could be different. Windows keep on changing the coding of their files, just for you to get the newest software to decode them.
Anyways, I think you should try this solution. If it does not work, let us know.
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