Windows explorer crashes if I select a wav file

Software & Operating Systems Windows
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I am going through my backlog of media files and organizing them. There are some .wav files created by iTunes within them and windows explorer would stop responding as soon as I select one of them. Transcoding them to .flac with ffmpeg doesn’t change the behavior. Is there any way I can fix this?

Doing the same on another windows device I have lying around doesn’t produce the same behavior

Update:
ran sfc /scannow and the behavior persists

Another Update:
I cannot delete files using Windows explorer for whatever reason

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created by itunes?
does it have drm?.
which media player you using?.

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No. It was a rip of a physical CD I did myself

This system is using Groove music as the default player for wav files

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Welp, Apparently a reboot was all it needed

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it could be groove music doesn’t have the required codec.

try installing mediaplayer classic or vlc and see if they then play.
both support way more codec options and willl play pretty much anything.

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No. That is impossible. The files are wav, not some special codec

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In some cases, the audio file with a .wav extension might be created from the DTS audio.
Windows Media/Groove Player does not support DTS and won’t play this kind of WAV file.
:wink:

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Some players also rely on sourcing WAV from system libraries, and may fail to decode WAV because the libraries they use are deprecated, unavailable, or broken.

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Install linux - sorry i had to or they would have taken my shill membership card away

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Please don’t use iTune to rip CDs, use EAC or cyanrip ( GitHub - cyanreg/cyanrip: Bule-ish CD ripper )
Windows explorer wont use 3rd party apps normally to get metadata

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Download audacity for windows
Very easy to convert audio files.

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