Cannot play alaw file

[nfantone]

I'm trying to play an a-Law encoded audio file. The file appears to have the expected specs for its format, as the file command reveals:

~$ file 24.alaw
24.alaw: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, ITU G.711 A-law, mono 8000 Hz

The client script is pretty straightforward.

var player = AV.Player.fromURL("http://localhost:8090/loader/audio/24.alaw"); 
player.play();

And is not working. HEAD and GET requests are sent correctly, no error is thrown. However, no audio comes out on latest Chrome (32.0.1700.77).

Here is what a `console.log(player)`` prints:

Player {asset: Asset, startPlaying: function, playing: false, buffered: 0, currentTime: 0…}

    asset: Asset
        _decode: function (){ return fn.apply(me, arguments); }
        active: true
        buffered: 100
        decoder: XLAWDecoder
        demuxer: WAVEDemuxer
        duration: 10526
        events: Object
        findDecoder: function (){ return fn.apply(me, arguments); }
        format: Object
            bitsPerChannel: 16
            bytesPerPacket: 1
            channelsPerFrame: 1
            floatingPoint: false
            formatID: "alaw"
            framesPerPacket: 1
            littleEndian: false
            sampleRate: 8000
            __proto__: Object
        metadata: null
        probe: function (){ return fn.apply(me, arguments); }
        shouldDecode: false
        source: HTTPSource
        __proto__: ctor
    buffered: 100
    currentTime: 0
    duration: 10526
    events: Object
    filters: Array[2]
    format: Object
    metadata: Object
    pan: 0
    playing: true
    queue: Queue
    startPlaying: function (){ return fn.apply(me, arguments); }
    startedPreloading: true
    volume: 100
    __proto__: ctor

Notice the absence of device and refill attributes. Also, bitsPerChannel and littleEndian values are apparently wrong (should be 8 and true, respectively).

Same bit of code works just fine with .mp3 files (after importing the corresponding demuxer). The alaw file you have hosted here: https://github.com/audiocogs/aurora.js-test/blob/master/au/alaw.au seems to work, as well - although I noticed that its header is entirely different.

alaw.au: Sun/NeXT audio data: 8-bit A-law (CCITT G.711), stereo, 44100 Hz

Any help will be appreciated.

You can download my sample file from here.

[devongovett]

File is 404ing. Sorry for not looking for so long. Please check again and I'll reopen the issue if it still doesn't work.