diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bd6cbf84..4fcd2f6f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+* #2653: Add audio/wav and audio/x-wav as Audio objects. (tomeu)
 * Support moving of data files written to the datastore using standard Activity
   write_file() API (dcbw)
 
diff --git a/services/shell/objecttypeservice.py b/services/shell/objecttypeservice.py
index 8a04d61f..4e806d4a 100644
--- a/services/shell/objecttypeservice.py
+++ b/services/shell/objecttypeservice.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class ObjectTypeRegistry(dbus.service.Object):
                             ['image/png', 'image/gif', 'image/jpeg'])
 
         self._add_primitive('Audio', _('Audio'), 'audio-x-generic',
-                            ['audio/ogg'])
+                            ['audio/ogg', 'audio/x-wav', 'audio/wav'])
 
         self._add_primitive('Video', _('Video'), 'video-x-generic',
                             ['video/ogg', 'application/ogg'])