What's Wrong With Sox?

[matt_thumper]

Hi,

I have a bunch of .wav files that I play regularly. I play them on both my Windows 7 box and my Fedora box (I have copies on both computers). On the Fedora machine I have used Rhythm Box and Totem and the .wav files play just fine.

When I try to use sox (either 'play filename.wav' or 'sox filename.wav -d') it's really screwy. The .wav files play very fast and are very stilted (skipping).

I am really completely ignorant about the wav files. I just recorded them from my CDs many moons ago on an older Windows XP machine.
So, when I went to *try* some of the many, many, many (and complicated, complicated, complicated) sox command-line options I didn't have luck getting them to play nicely. All I was able to achieve was to slow the song down so it didn't sound like a chipmunk - but like a person; but it was still stilted - skipping - a bunch.

About a year ago on an earlier version of Fedora sox was working just fine for me - and these same wav files. I even popped it (sox) into a ksh script to randomly play songs. But the current version of sox won't work. 2 days ago I reinstalled it (yum) - but still no luck, it plays the same.

I want to use sox again and be able to use the ksh script to play them randomly.

So what can I do (?):
a) I am ignorant about the wav files themselves (other than file size)
b) the wav files work fine under a bunch of other applications and platforms (so they are OK)

Any help is appreciated!
Matt

[Affix]

Have you tried to add the sample rate(play-rate) and bit-rate to your command?

[matt_thumper]

Affix,
Thanks for the reply.

I am ignorant about the wav files themselves (other than file size) so I have not tried to add the sample rate and bit-rate to my command.

Don't even know what they are; much less what they are set to; much, much less what they *should* be set to.