Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > I've only recently started using my Android device for playing audio. > > About once a week I listen to a podcast, which is usually an MP3 I've > downloaded from NPR.org. > > On my laptop I copy these to Google Drive (big shout to > net-misc/drive) and then I can access then via Drive on my Android > phone. > > Google Drive on Android seems to play these audio files on a built-in > player; its only controls are to skip forwards or backwards 30 > seconds, but this is adequate for podcasts. > > I have here a BBC radio show that I downloaded a couple of weeks ago > with net-misc/youtube-dl. > > When downloaded it saves as an .mp4 file. I have also tried renaming > it to .m4a but, either way, Google Drive complains "unable to process > this video". > > How do I need to process this audio to get it to play, please? > > I'd obviously prefer to keep the same audio stream, rather than > transcoding it. I assume that the player can handle AAC (??), it just > needs to be in another container. > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions, > > Stroller. > > > > Details: > > > $ youtube-dl http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07fl5bh [...]
I've downloaded the file, renamed it to The_Bronze_Age_Collapse_-_In_Our_Time_-_BBC_Radio.mp4 and copied it to the SD-card of my phone (Android 6.0.1). I can play it without problems with the "Vanilla Music" app (haven't tested other apps). I don't know anything about Google Drive (don't use any cloud services) so I cannot say if this would work on my device. If you wanna put the audio data into another container without recoding it, you can use for example something like that: ffmpeg -i filename.mp4 -acodec copy filename.m4a -- Regards wabe
