Does Android supports .wav audio? 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 &amp; 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+)