My audio observations before November 2019 have no sound. Observations with audio before Nov. 2019 Observations with audio after Nov. 2019 I recorded and submitted all of them the same way.

here is one of your observations whose sound file won’t play: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/34644752 . the underlying sound file is: https://static.inaturalist.org/sounds/48771.m4a . when i try to open that file directly, i see this error message: 403 ERROR The request could not be satis…

That’s weird, they used to play. I made them all the same way with the same equipment, Iphone and PC. There must a gremlin out there that doesn’t like old bird songs.

i suspect there may have been a change in the iNat media server configuration settings, preventing it from serving up audio/x-m4a files. if that’s the case, it should be a minor change to get the server to serve these up again (assuming such a change was unintentional).

I just went back and reuploaded the 16 sound observations that would not work anymore. I used the same files that I used last time. They all work again now. This fixes my issue but this problem still needs some attention for other observers that may be affected.

it’s interesting that your reloaded audio files are all loaded as audio/mp4. it doesn’t address the problem here, but i’m curious – did you change your mobile device or anything in your workflow around November 2019?

I didn’t change anything. Uploaded the same way with the same files. Same computer and same mobile device. Edit: I actually didn’t use a mobile device while reloading because the sound files are still on my computer.

Older audio observations don't have sound

Bug Reports

tiwane April 1, 2022, 11:13pm 9

All but two of the sounds affected by this bug have been fixed (I’m not sure which sounds those are, but we suspect they’re formatted in a way we can’t process). Thanks for your help on this, @pisum.

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Older audio observations don't have sound

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