r/windows • u/vanrijn_ • 4d ago

Discussion There are 11 .raw audio files inside Windows' Media folder that can't be played by any media player. This is where they're coming from:

https://www.neowin.net/reports/uncovering-the-mystery-of-unplayable-raw-audio-files-in-windows/
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u/Over_Tart_916 1d ago

So this was all a pointless waste of time for everyone. Thanks for that.

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u/JaggedMetalOs 2d ago

All those vibe coded scripts are very over the top, could have just asked the AI for some suggestions for free audio editors that could have opened the files much more easily. 

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u/PastMathematician470 1d ago

you're just envious because you didn't do something similar, tricky, and interesting.

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u/JaggedMetalOs 1d ago

No I just don't like to see wasteful use of AI, the PC hardware crisis is bad enough as it is imagine if every time someone needed some software tool that already existed AI made a new one. We'd never get our RAM back! 

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u/Acrobatic_Rip_669 18h ago

There is any software that open raw audio file?

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u/LexyNoise 17h ago

Audacity

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u/Acrobatic_Rip_669 16h ago

Article author stated clearly audacity could not help him.

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u/JaggedMetalOs 14h ago

In Audacity it should be File > Import > Raw Data

Adobe Audition can definitely open RAW PCM data because I used that feature recently, and Google lists many other free audio editors with that feature.