Looked at WAV spec format. Probably (but I'm not certain) the thing

that was wrong was the test program which needs to byte swap. What
confuses me now is how the media players sort this out.

lib/cdda_interface/interface.c

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
-  $Id: interface.c,v 1.11 2005/01/14 03:41:11 rocky Exp $
+  $Id: interface.c,v 1.12 2005/01/14 04:09:30 rocky Exp $
 
   Copyright (C) 2005 Rocky Bernstein <rocky@panix.com>
   Copyright (C) 1998 Monty xiphmont@mit.edu
@@ -111,15 +111,7 @@ cdda_open(cdrom_drive_t *d)
     
   /*  d->select_speed(d,d->maxspeed); most drives are full speed by default */
   if (d->bigendianp==-1)
-#ifdef USE_DATA_BIGENDIANP
     d->bigendianp=data_bigendianp(d);
-#else 
-#if WORDS_BIGENDIAN
-  d->bigendianp=1;
-#else  
-  d->bigendianp=0;
-#endif /*WORDS_BIGENDIAN*/
-#endif /*USE_DATA_BIGENDIANP*/
 
   return(0);
 }