Google → my galaxy s3 can't play back .wav files?

I have a Galaxy S3 and I get voicemails from my office via email that are in .wav format. When I click the attachment I get a message pop up that says that audio file format is not supported on the device. Really!!!???? A format that has been around 30 years and my phone can't play it back? Am I missing something?

Had the same problem on both HTC and Samsung devices.
I use RemoteWave: »play.google.com/store/ap ··· eeplayer and have no problems Listening to voice mails.

I had this same issue with my company email. The best player for this is WavPlayer:

»play.google.com/store/ap ··· heWVyIl0.

However, after some research and speaking to my work IT dept. They can actually change the wav format so that the wav files will play with the native Android wav player.

I bet it's a licensing issue. Remember the original xbox couldn't play dvd's until you bought a seperate media package which included a remote. They did that so that they would'nt have to pay a per unit licensing fee which would've increased the cost of the xbox.

Can you play back WAV. files that are already on your desktop PC? I have many songs in wav. format that I ripped off Youtube videos using Audacity.

Hi I had this same issue and the one which saved me is vitalplayer free from the app store
»play.google.com/store/ap ··· alplayer

Took much time to test and find this.

I have just uploaded wav. format songs to my "Music" on my Samsung Galaxy S3 and have tested all of them as ringtones and they played and worked like a charm, both in my phone's native music player and as ringtones.

I don't know why you guys cannot play them back, I just proved that the phone can play wav. files with stock software, no need for gimmicks or apps.

That may very well work but it would take longer to do it that way then to download and use remote wav to listen to wav files from email. I had the same issue with listening to wav voicemails from magicjack via email (GNEX) Then they came out with the MJ app and i didn't need to listen that way.

Remote Wav was the ticket; free version worked fine playing wav voicemails directly from mail. THANKS for the info!