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Ho freesounders

when I upload an OGG file the system says Uploaded file format not supported or not an audio file".

this is for a longer time (few weeks??) now.

regards

Hi klankbeeld !
Maybe OGG files are supported, but some compression ratios aren’t ?

Wishing you all the best !

Kevin

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for your message.
I did try to upload different compression methodes I did use in the past. But nothing works

regards
klankbeeld

Hi,
I haven't had any issues with .OGG (other than long recordings >3h)

I just uploaded this : https://freesound.org/people/Sadiquecat/sounds/814352/ (With audacity Q10)

Maybe it's an issue between OGG Opus and OGG Vorbis ?
OGG Vorbis works for me.

Kind regards.

Hey !
Quite strange, indeed.
An other idea : did you try to upload the files with different browsers/machines ?

Wishing you all the best !

Kevin

Firefox 140.0.2 (64-bits) is the problem. Thanks Kevin for the tip.

You’re welcome, glad to help !

Wishing you all the best !

Kevin

Looks like .OGA is not supported.
My audacity wants to default to "other uncompressed formats - Header : OGG - Opus (instead of Vorbis?) and the final file is a .OGA.

Selecting OGG as the file type, instead of the "other uncompressed formats" it wants to default to works. It's a Audacity issue rather than a freesound one.

I'm not sure what OGA has different than OGG But Freesound does not support OGA.

You can user an online converter to convert it into .ogg
But, to do this without using a converter, you can install VS code, open VS code, open the file you want to convert with VS code, right click on it, click on rename, then rename the extension to .ogg, this is what I do to convert my files

install VS code

Hi,
In similar lines, seems like there's no .opus support.
I think opus and OGG are very similar (and to FLAC too?). Maybe being similar it could be easy to implement?

Similarly there was a thread 5 years ago suggesting OPUS for preview audio https://freesound.org/forum/bug-reports-errors-and-feature-requests/42129/ Which I concur as OPUS or OGG is at least doubly efficient compared to MP3 compression (A file half the size still sounds better from my testing).