Big Endian/Little Endian audio files

I spent hours trying to solve a problem yesterday. I finally figured it out, so I thought I would share my insights here in case it helps readers of this forum some day. Unbeknownst to me I had a mix of both types of audio files (Big Endian & Little Endian -- a Google search will explain the difference).

I have no idea how this happened, since I used the same software/hardware set-up to make all of the files. MaxMSP will easily handle both types of files, so I was totally unaware of this issue (didn't even really know about these two types of audio file encoding). I only became aware of it when I tried to compile my work into a "stand-alone application," a "collective," and/or a "project." At that point Max just flagged two audio files and gave an error message (err-1). Hours later, I finally got to the bottom of the problem and fixed it.

Here's the take away: MaxMSP will allow you to load and play both Big Endian/Little Endian audio files....
BUT ... it will not compile Big Endian audio files into a Max project, a collective (i.e. ".mxf" files) or stand-alone applications (i.e. ".app" files).