Elements 2020 will not play .wav files

Thanks, Phinny. I have VLC and it is my default media player. I looked at the link you provided but did not try to convert anything, reason being that it appears that I would have to go into every one of my Organizer items with an associated wav file and reassociate to the new MP3 file, one at a time. (That association is made from the Organizer audio player using the File>>Browse function.)

There is a really nice open source *free* audio editor available called Audacity. I installed and tried it, and it works well batch converting 8-bit wav files to 16-bit. Simply touching a wav file with Audacity's "Export as WAV" command as the single operation in a macro will convert to 16-bit and export the file to a subfolder off the one you are working in. Then a cut/paste to the original folder replaces all the old 8-bit wav files with the converted 16-bit versions. No reassociation is necessary in Elements Organizer. Batch conversion is simple enough--you apply your Audacity macro to a file list of all the wav files in the folder. My problem with using the Audacity conversion to solve this problem is that it can operate on only a folder at a time, and I have hundreds of folders and many thousands of photos. (In my original post I had sort of forgotten about a much larger Organizer catalog containing years of photos arranged in folders by vacation/trip/event, folders named and sorted by date. I have a few hundred of those, and all those that were created before several years ago when I got my latest camera have wav files in the older 8-bit format. Converting all that with Audacity would be a huge job!)

So while I do have a fairly efficient method to convert these files, this problem needs to be fixed. I hope Adobe is listening, but I doubt that they are.