# Emscripten System::createSound fails with Unsupported file or audio format

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/emscripten-system-createsound-fails-with-unsupported-file-or-audio-format/17333>\
**Category:** FMOD Engine\
**Tags:** html5, cpp\
**Created:** [June 14, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/emscripten-system-createsound-fails-with-unsupported-file-or-audio-format/17333 "2021-06-14T01:46:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![utku](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/utku/32/2348_2.png) [@utku](https://qa.fmod.com/u/utku)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2021, 1:46am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/emscripten-system-createsound-fails-with-unsupported-file-or-audio-format/17333/1 "2021-06-14T01:46:03Z")

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I am compiling a C++ application with latest Emscripten, liked to upstream/w32/fmod.a and upstream/w32/fmodstudio.a, sound system initializes, system update has no errors, everyting works witn x64 target, file is jaguar.wav from examples, yet I am getting

FMOD error 19 - Unsupported file or audio format.

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**Author:** ![mathew](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/mathew/32/431_2.png) [@mathew](https://qa.fmod.com/u/mathew)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 3:23am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/emscripten-system-createsound-fails-with-unsupported-file-or-audio-format/17333/2 "2021-06-15T03:23:24Z")

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When using fmodstudio.a we expect users will be loading resources via .bank files, so all unnecessary file formats are excluded. If you want to full feature set as well as FMOD Studio API, use fmodstudioL.a. You can disable the logging with Debug\_Initialize.

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**Author:** ![utku](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/utku/32/2348_2.png) [@utku](https://qa.fmod.com/u/utku)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2021, 7:00am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/emscripten-system-createsound-fails-with-unsupported-file-or-audio-format/17333/3 "2021-06-15T07:00:53Z")

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Thank you, it worked.
