In many internet blogs I read that wav audio files are not supported by Android OS. I have also tried to play .wav audio files with the default music player software in Android, but it couldn't be played.
But, recently when I peeped into the media folder in Android's system partition, (/system/media/alarms), I found many .wav files there.
Now I am confused. Does Android supports wav files ?
Yes, Android supports .wav audio files.
The Supported media formats lists the audio & video formats supported by Android, and .wav audio is among the many listed.
Supported file type(s) / Container format (only audio file types are listed below)
• 3GPP (.3gp)
• MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4a)
• ADTS raw AAC (.aac, decode in Android 3.1+, encode in Android 4.0+, ADIF not supported)
• MPEG-TS (.ts, not seekable, Android 3.0+)
• FLAC (.flac) only
• GSM(.gsm)
• Type 0 and 1 (.mid, .xmf, .mxmf)
• RTTTL/RTX (.rtttl, .rtx)
• OTA (.ota)
• iMelody (.imy)
• MP3 (.mp3)
• Matroska (.mkv)
• WAVE (.wav)
• Ogg (.ogg)
• Matroska (.mkv, Android 4.0+)
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