sound formats

Pedroski · 05-31-2015, 07:30 AM

I asked a young lady to read some Chinese text, so I could practice it. She recorded it on my mobile phone. It is .amr. I could save it as .3gpp, those are the only formats available on my mobile.

Would I ever be able to play these on my laptop, using Ubuntu?

ButterflyMelissa · 05-31-2015, 07:36 AM

hmm, VLC seems to "eat" almost everything...
I just tried an AMR file (found a site with some test data) and, well, I "hear" something (dunnow what I was listening to

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Thor

frankbell · 05-31-2015, 08:18 PM

Wikipedia has an article about *.amr files which includes a list of programs which will play that format. It looks as if you shouldn't have any problems finding a player.

rtmistler · 06-01-2015, 06:43 AM

I agree with Thor, VLC should play those files. Further you can convert them using ffmpeg or avconv

Pedroski · 06-01-2015, 08:12 AM

Thanks, I recorded on my phone because, a) sound recorder does not work from Ubuntu v. 14.04 b) audio recorder, which does work, has a nasty hum to it, don't know where that's coming from. It is hard enough for me to understand Chinese. I do not need a powerful hum on top

I could not usb my phone for some reason, but I took out the sd card and copied the files to my laptop. These strange formats work fine with vlc!

ButterflyMelissa · 06-01-2015, 05:26 PM

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I could not usb my phone for some reason

Dont USB...Bluetooth instead. That's how I transfer all my stuff to the laptop

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These strange formats work fine with vlc

Told ya

Pedroski · 06-02-2015, 07:52 AM

Thanks, but I cannot get bluetooth to work either, Ubuntu sees my phone I enter a pairing code, but nothing gets sent. Gave up in the end!