I have the same issue the VU meter reading is 0% and the file.wav size is getting increased. Trying to play the audio file file.wav on my local and no sound.
Any help is really really appreciated.

Yes you can A simple method, that I've been using since it came out, us to pull/prize the big black connector block out and change it for a long pin variant, this then gives you all the pins sticking out the top of the hat and can mount it direct to the Pi. Or use the method in the 'car' above http...

I am very new to the Rasberry pi and started playing with the SenseHat board on the raberry pi. Now I got a challenge where I need to attach an I2S microphone phone to the existing Rasberry Pi + SenseHat and start collecting the data from all the sensors (6 from SenseHat board + the external i2S mic...