Cannot open simple sox wav file - "is not in a supported format"

[apson]

I just installed REW for the first time on my mac.

In sox, I generated a simple wav file:

sox -V -r 96000 -n -b 24 -c 1 sin1k.wav synth 1 sin 1000 vol -10dB

In REW, in the top menu I clicked RTA and then in the RTA window I clicked WAV, opened the file.

No combination of options in the wav opening dialog would work. Maybe this isn't how this is supposed to be used? I was hoping to see an FFT of the data.

I get "File format error" with the text "sin1k.wav is not in a supported audio format."

I attempted to search this forum and couldn't find anything.

 

[John Mulcahy]

Can you attach the file?

 

[apson]

Sure thing. Thanks! Attaching zip version. I don't have enough posts to share link to the wav in dropbox.

 

[John Mulcahy]

The file has an odd value for the sample format field which the Java readers don't recognise (nor do I ). I can import it to Audacity, and Audacity thinks it has float data, but you used -b 24 which isn't an IEEE float format. Perhaps you should generate the file with -e float instead of -b 24, or -e float -b 32. Don't know what the -n option in your command does either.

 

[apson]

Thanks -- that was my mistake. -n is the null input, from man:

-n, --null Use the `null' file handler; e.g. with synth effect

I succeeded with -e float:

sox -V -r 96000 -n -b 32 -e float -c 1 sin1k.wav synth 2 sin 1000 vol 0dB

The original command I found on audiosciencereview but I carelessly modified it. Thanks for the help and sorry for wasting your time on something trivial!