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Aubrey Portwood
Aubrey Portwood

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How to get your Mallsoft .wav files to play for Winamp 🦙 2.9.5 in Windows 98SE

I was messing around in Windows 98SE and was trying to play some of my Bandcamp Vaporwave in Winamp 2.9.5.

Winamp 2.9.5

But I was having some issues playing the .wav files you can download from Bandcamp:

Error

Settings

The fix ended up being to tell the "Nullsoft Waveform Decoder" to "Convert 24/32-bit to 16-bit" and it worked!

Winamp playing Mallsoft

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