I got the GNU 'Media Player Classic' from sourceforg.net - it played it with the wav extension.

I have had other recent wav files that would not play - deleted them cause I thought they were 'broken'. They won't play on my box, that's why I asked if there was some new codec. Wonder if it's part of the new 'version 9' stuff MS was spouting about for XP?

One could ask the owner of the file mentioned above - search for the thread - I'm busty at the moment.

TYPO!   that should be BUSY... hmmmm... Now you know how teh Foolestroupe got it original creative inspirations ....

Filealyzer was the best thing so far. It read the 'magic'.

Will check out foobar. That is of course a mispelling homynom of the original acronym 'fubar' which I am sure most people can work out... :-) Not sure if I would trust a program with such a name... :-)

Robin