Windows 10: Error in playing .wav files

I have been having an error in attempting to play .wav files on the Windows Media Player. To my knowledge, I have carried out no updates, changed no drivers, and changed no codecs recently. However, out of nowhere, I received the following error message. "Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file."As I said, I made no updates or changes to anything as far as I know, and I can't find anyone with the same issue. If anyone knows how I could get past this, or knows what codecs I could inst

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Unable to play .wav audio file

Hi Michael,

Thanks for replying to us with the status of your issue.

We understand the inconvenience caused and we will try our best to resolve the issue.

To assist you better, I like to know; on which application you are you are trying to play .Wav sound file?

I like to inform you that; you can play .wav audio file format
using Windows Media Player and Windows 10 Groove Music app.

As an initial recommendation, I suggest you to Right click on the
.wav audio file > Select Properties > click on the
Change button adjacent to Open with option > Select Windows Media player option from the given list > Click on
Ok.

If the issue still persists, run audio troubleshooter and check if it helps.

Follow the below steps:

• 
  Type Troubleshooting in the Search area on the taskbar and select
  Troubleshooting.
  
• 
  Select Hardware and Sound.
  
• 
  Select Playing Audio under
  Sound and follow the on screen.
  

For more information, refer to the below link:

Fix sound problems in Windows 10



Hope it helps, reply to us with the status of your issue. We will be happy to assist you.

 

Cannot Play WAV files

OK, let's try a few admin commands:

1. Create a desktop shortcut for cmd.exe.
2. Right-click this shortcut, then left-click "Run as administrator".
3. Accept the challenge. You will get a black frame.
4. Type these commands and press Enter after each:
   
   takeown /f F:\ /r
   
   icacls F:\ /t /c /grant everyone:F
   
   attrib /s -h -r -s F:\*.wav
5. Try once more to play a .wav file
6. If still unsuccessful, copy one of the files to your desktop, then play it there.

 

play WAV file with Windows 10

Hi Lena

Is this just one wav file, or all wav files that will not play on your PC with those media players?

If it is just one wav, file, you can assume that wav file is corrupt .. ..

If this happens with all wav files, please provide the error(s) you are seeing when trying to play those files . . .