I must admit that I did have second thoughts about posting this after I'd properly typed it out. It sounded less pointed in my head.
You are technically right. The specific issue was that youtube-dl had a bug downloading WAVs from soundcloud. The WAV in question was privately linked to me, and it was the first WAV I'd ever encountered. It's not possible to search for "has WAV" on soundcloud. I had no idea how to find one, and was unsure how to go about uploading test media (eg if it would be taken down etc).
I'll admit that yeah there was some laziness and "just fix it" and unimpressedness in there. I'm at fault to an extent.
You are technically right. The specific issue was that youtube-dl had a bug downloading WAVs from soundcloud. The WAV in question was privately linked to me, and it was the first WAV I'd ever encountered. It's not possible to search for "has WAV" on soundcloud. I had no idea how to find one, and was unsure how to go about uploading test media (eg if it would be taken down etc).
I'll admit that yeah there was some laziness and "just fix it" and unimpressedness in there. I'm at fault to an extent.