Sourcing audio from google drive

Submitted by pbarresi on Sun, 01/08/2023 - 11:56
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Content creation

Hi,

 

When I try to add an audio clip with the web address from google drive, the audio comes up as unknown. Is there a way to fix this? I have ensured that the file is sharable and editable from google drive.

 

Cheers

Trish

Content types: 
Audio
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BV52

Mon, 01/09/2023 - 17:15

Hi Trish,

The URL that Google Drive provides you is not the where the audio file is located in their servers, instead it is the URL for playing the audio. H5P expects a link directly to the audio file which usually ends with the file type. Below is a comparison of Google drives URL and one that is the audio file:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AXaJAW3rVnsVQC8MlKNvLUM56xUCuEOp

https://file-examples.com/storage/fe5d1b837563bc320a04641/2017/11/file_e...

These are the same file but the second links is the direct URL for the file. You can check with Google if they provide this URL.

-BV 

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otacke

Mon, 01/09/2023 - 20:17

Hey all!

I just wrote a longer post at https://snordian.de/2023/01/09/i-am-giving-h5p-a-link-to-some-media-file-but-it-doesnt-work-why/ that may explain in more detail what BV already described briefly. Hope it helps.

Cheers,
Oliver

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BV52

Mon, 01/09/2023 - 20:25

Hi Oliver,

Well written! Thank you for sharing.

-BV

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otacke

Mon, 01/09/2023 - 21:04

Part of my (hopefully steadily growing) archive of answers to FAQs - just in case https://h5p.org/FAQ and https://help.h5p.com are not enough ;-)