error on reading in a wave file wavread: sample format 0xfffe is not supported

[Rick T]

Greetings All

I'm trying to read in an audio wave file that is a 96000hz 1 second file that is 375.1kB

filewavallpathStr= '/home/rat/Documents/octave/raw_audio/';

[aa_pos_neg_combined, fs_rate, nbitsraw] = wavread(strcat(filewavallpathStr,'all.wav'));

I'm getting this error

error: wavread: sample format 0xfffe is not supported

error: called from:

error: /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/audio/wavread.m at line 111, column 5

I'm using octave 3.2.4 on ubuntu 64

Can octave waveread command only read in 44100hz files?

tia
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