Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Android App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings): 1.19.8 (430) I was delighted to discover I could upload birdsong recordings to iNaturalist directly from my voice recorder app as a “share,” rather than having first to upload it to SoundClo…

This sounds like a syncing issue more than a sound one. @jeffreymichalsbrown can you please try to sync again and if you still can’t, send us log files from the app? To send log files, go to the Settings tab in the app and tap three times on the version number. You will then have the option to email…

@jeffreymichalsbrown According to the logs, the issue is that we’re unable to convert the type of sound file you’re uploading. Can you please send one or two of these files to help@inaturalist.org so we can take a look at them?

Android app is unable to upload new bird song recordings

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Android app is unable to upload new bird song recordings

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