diff --git a/player/external_files.c b/player/external_files.c
index 77e12db066..8c8bd0ac45 100644
--- a/player/external_files.c
+++ b/player/external_files.c
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ static const char *const sub_exts[] = {"utf", "utf8", "utf-8", "idx", "sub", "sr
                                        "js", "ass", "mks", "vtt", "sup", NULL};
 
 static const char *const audio_exts[] = {"mp3", "aac", "mka", "dts", "flac",
-                                         "ogg", "m4a", "ac3", "opus", NULL};
+                                         "ogg", "m4a", "ac3", "opus", "wav",
+                                         NULL};
 
 static bool test_ext_list(bstr ext, const char *const *list)
 {