Hello,
I get voice mail messages from my home phone VoIP line emailed to my Gmail account when I'm away as "wav" file attachment.
The problem is I've never been able to play them on my Xperia X10a.
I've red somewhere in this forum that "Mediascape" supports wav files but that is not the case with me. I've tried other media players as well to no avail.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Here is my wav audio file details:
Codec: 0x0031 (GSM 6.10)
Info: 8000Hz 13 kb/s (1 chnl)
Thanks.
I don't have an Xperia, but I do have another droid phone and I have the same problem. Actually it is not too uncommon, I have the same problem with my work voicemail system also. I also had the problem on my ATT Touch Pro also, Windows Mobile 6.1. I was able to get another audio player that would play the files, that was Core Player. I don't know what on the android side does it but you just might need to experiment. It is all about the audio codec that your phone system uses, I know ours couldn't be changed.
I finally got this to work after upgrading to Android 2.1 and then downloading the free "Remote Wave" app from AppBrain.
Thanks.
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Hey everybody,
I'm currently rocking the 318 update with the performance mod. When I go to watch videos I've recorded, I'm given the option of using the "movies" video player or any of the 3rd party players I've downloaded.
Here's my question. I've previously been using Steve's froyo roms. In a couple of them he had the old 1.6 video player as an option to view movies/videos. Does anyone have the .apk file for this?
I would always use the old player because I wouldn't get the annoying "this file is audio only" statement over my videos that I've recorded.
And if there's a third party video player that would work I'm up for suggestions. I have rockplayer installed and it won't play videos recorded form my streak.
Thanks in advance!
I'm running streak droid v 1.6.1 and I've got the this file is audio only message over my video thats playing. I use handbrake to make videos mp 4 before I put them on the streak. If you or anyone else figures out how to make the message go away, please let me know.
Streak Droid v1.6.1 using xda app
problem was fixed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=894743&highlight=file+audio
something to do with stagefright in build.prop being enabled
I switched to rock player and just skip conversion now. Also switched devices too. Now I just need away to download media files straight to my device so I don't get the file not supported message.
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Nm, able to dl xvid straight to device
liberated droid x
The office I work at uses IP Office for voice mail and sends emails thru our Exchange server. I can't play the voice mail message when it arrives on my phone (Droid X2, Android 2.2.2). The file attached is in .wav format.
Properties of the .wav file generated are: Bit Rate 128 kbps, Audio Sample Size 16 bit, Channels 1 (mono), Audio Sample Rate 8kHz, Audio Format PCM.
I'd also like to use some .mid files as ringtones/alert sounds but the system won't play them.
I am using the stock player and WinAmp.
I've read on other forums that this might be a Froyo specific problem but I don't know. Any ideas if Gingerbread will fix this?
wav files are generally not supported on Andorid as the codec requires licensing fees. For best compatibility use OGG files or MP3s.
cvmaas said:
wav files are generally not supported on Andorid as the codec requires licensing fees. For best compatibility use OGG files or MP3s.
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I was reading some comments elsewhere this morning and that it is a Froyo problem. 2.1 worked as did previous builds. The ability to play .wavs was broken in 2.2. I did find a workaround with Remote Wave Free in Market. But regardless of licensing fees, the ability to play .wavs is needed in the corporate sector with the various voice mail systems. In many cases, voice mails are received by users as an attachment to an email generated from the office and people rely on getting them. If they can't play them, then they will migrate to a Blackberry or an iPhone which is a loss of Android market share.
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zeb carter said:
The office I work at uses IP Office for voice mail and sends emails thru our Exchange server. I can't play the voice mail message when it arrives on my phone (Droid X2, Android 2.2.2). The file attached is in .wav format.
Properties of the .wav file generated are: Bit Rate 128 kbps, Audio Sample Size 16 bit, Channels 1 (mono), Audio Sample Rate 8kHz, Audio Format PCM.
I'd also like to use some .mid files as ringtones/alert sounds but the system won't play them.
I am using the stock player and WinAmp.
I've read on other forums that this might be a Froyo specific problem but I don't know. Any ideas if Gingerbread will fix this?
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Have you tried to save the file first and then play it? Try it.
bowhunter said:
Have you tried to save the file first and then play it? Try it.
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I did that initially. That did not work.
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zeb carter said:
I did that initially. That did not work.
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Zeb, did you use the media player to play or try to play it in gmail? The Gmail app does have a problem playing wav files as attachments.
I don't use gmail in a corporate setting. Synced directly with our Exchange server. Stock play and Winamp can't play them. But Remote wave free did.
Hello all.
I don't have access to the dev forum yet so I'm posting here. I have been running eclipse for a long time but recently tried CM7 and it is so much faster but there is one problem. My music files almost all show up as unknown artist. I use my phone as a music player in my car so this is a huge pain in the behind. I have reflashed twice now following all the instructions. I even SBF'd back to stock and wiped everything. The tags are fine on my PC, my old mp3 player and my wife's iphone so I know it's not a problem with the actual files.
Does anyone else have this issue? I did some searching on google and did find one post where someone said that it was a problem with the beta for the DX but I couldn't find any other info on it so if this is a known issue then I'm sorry for failing at the internet.
May I suggest trying a different music player. I use PowerAmp ($4.99 I believe) and have never looked back.
Just because the tags may show properly on those devices doesn't mean that they're error-free. Check the files using a well-known tagger such as mp3tag.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...GwsMSwxLDMsImNvbS5tYXhtcHouYXVkaW9wbGF5ZXIiXQ..
I have no issues on stock CM7 player. My wife uses an iPod for her music playing and I use my phone, so I am (whipped) 'forced' to use iTunes to sort and tag our music files. As mp4's the tags run perfectly. (Tagged with iTunes).
What software are you using to tag your files?
sent from my CM7'd X2 using XDA
My phone system e-mails me my voicemails as WAV file attachments (doesn't support anything else). Apparently WP8 does not natively support playback of these files. I have installed an app that will play them but it doesn't seem to be accessible from within the e-mail app. Anyone have a suggestion on how to playback WAV received in an e-mail?
I can directly play them from the email attachment.. No need for additional apps..
Just tap it once to download the *.wav attachment and when the download finished tap it again to play the *.wav file...
Evidently there are a few different WAV encoding or encapsulations. Not every voicemail system uses the same one. In fact, Windows Phone 7 used to play a friend of mine's voicemail system's WAV files just fine, but his new Windows Phone 8 won't.
If you find a WAV that works, and one that doesn't, opening it in something like Audacity can tell you if there is something funky like a bit rate or some other audio compression CODEC that might render it unplayable. Doesn't help unless they can convert to MP3 or something...
There are tons of threads about this over here:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...42-3298-4b2e-8be4-db3dc2cbc53f?page=~pagenum~
Great...I'm NEVER going to get my users off iPhone as long as I have to hunt down workarounds for simple things like this.
Voice mails on WAVE?
That is such a waste of bandwidth, when the same could've been done on mp3 or amr format.
But seriously, why all this limitations with file formats on Windows Phone 8? It is ridiculous.
Same issue here. Really shameful and makes me wonder why I trusted MS and WP8 in the first place.
WAV is just a container format, like AVI. Most of the time, WAV is used for uncompressed PCM data, but it's possible to shove pretty much anything in there, including MP3 and various oddball formats. Saying that a given piece of software doesn't play back WAV is an invalid complaint. Figure out what's inside the WAV file, and then complain about that.
Recently I switch from useing a Samsung galaxy player 4.0 as a pmp to a Droid x2, and was suprised to find that my favorite feature of my favorite music player was not working. In Doubletwist when you use the headset to play/pause skip forward/back and shufle an indicator beep of different tone plays to let you know it got the message. With the X2 thought only the shuffle tone seemed to work. I tracked it down to the fact that the mp3 files that are actually played by the app are to short (under 10 milliseconds) or to small (around 1Kb) to register. Found this out by extracting the doubletwist apk and trying to play the mp3 directly, the shuffle tone being longest played fine (20milisecond 2.4Kb). Any one have an suggestions on how to fix this? I have tried extracting then replacing the files with ones that will play, and rebuilding, but the final result crashes on startup.
FIXED IT
Alright I fixed the issue. After some experimintation, with APKmultiTool, I found that if I extracted the apk then make the modifications, and then zipped the apk again, at the highest comppression (9), then signed it, it would install but crash on launch. It still did not seem to want to work at compression between 0 and 9. I tried at 8 7 and 2 and those did not work. I lowerd the compression to 0 and zipped and signed again then the install worked.
Now the player can play the audio files and have them register as sound.