How do you post music to lemmy ? You can post images and video files with music tracks, but what about simple.mp3?
Do I have to convert my mp3 file to mp4 by adding blackout video track using handbrake ?
Ok, I tried
This created a file too big
ffmpeg -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a copy -f mp4 "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp4"
This recompress to 64kbit, but still a few byte over the limit
ffmpeg -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a aac -b:a 64k -f mp4 "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.64kbit.mp4"
This was under the limit, but when uploaded, the file disappeared with no error message
ffmpeg -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a aac -b:a 56k -f mp4 "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.56kbit.mp4"
I tried copy to mp4 but trunkate a 30seconds, same behaviour as 56kbit file, despite being under 500k
ffmpeg -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -t 30 -c:v copy "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.30secs.mp4"
I tried adding an image, but this just created a 1 second file with no image
ffmpeg -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -i "image(62)-2.png" -c:a aac -b:a 64k -c:v libx264 -shortest "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.56kbit.withpic.mp4"
This next one loops the image file, now it created the full song with an image in the video channel. Unfortunately the video track now weights about 3 megabytes, so way over
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "image(62)-2.png" -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a aac -b:a 64k -c:v libx264 -shortest -vf "scale=1280:720" "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.56kbit.withpic.mp4"
This next one created a 2.4mbps file, the image is now awful quality
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "image(62)-2.png" -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a aac -b:a 64k -c:v libx264 -b:v 100k -vf "scale=320:320" -shortest "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.56kbit.withpic.mp4"
This reduces video bandwidth to 10kbps, image is incomprehensible and the file is still 1.3 megabytes (400k for the video stream)
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "image(62)-2.png" -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a aac -b:a 64k -c:v libx264 -b:v 10k -vf "scale=320:320" -shortest "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.56kbit.withpic.mp4"
Reduced video stream to 1kbps, 1.2 megabytes, still too big
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "image(62)-2.png" -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a aac -b:a 64k -c:v libx264 -b:v 1k -vf "scale=320:320" -shortest "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.56kbit.withpic.mp4"
I reduced audio quality to 32kbps, 677 kilobytes, half of that is the video stream still, and at this point it's just a gray image
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "image(62)-2.png" -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a aac -b:a 32k -c:v libx264 -b:v 1k -vf "scale=320:320" -shortest "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.32kbit.withpic.mp4"
And I post it here And the uploaded file just disappears .....
I try raising the video quality then the resolution
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "image(62)-2.png" -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a aac -b:a 32k -c:v libx264 -b:v 10k -vf "scale=320:320" -shortest "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.32kbit.withpic.mp4"
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "image(62)-2.png" -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a aac -b:a 32k -c:v libx264 -b:v 20k -vf "scale=480:480" -shortest "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.32kbit.withpic.mp4"
final attempt, I'm not sure why it won't accept it, no errors, it is under 1 megabyte
ffmpeg -loop 1 -i "image(62)-2.png" -i "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.mp3" -c:a aac -b:a 32k -c:v libx264 -b:v 20k -vf "scale=1280:720" -shortest "Somebody I Vacuum to Decay.32kbit.withpic.mp4"
Sorry to hear you’re still having issues. I didn’t write Lemmy and I don’t host lemmyml, so my knowledge is limited. The file size limit is per-instance, set in a config file on the server, and I had nothing to do with how lemmyml is configured. @dessalines@lemmy.ml or @nutomic@lemmy.ml might be able to shed some light.
I upload a lyric video to YouTube, but I don't have a band so I just write the lyrics and have a robot help me.
Honestly, as easy as it is now, I really truly feel sorry for artists who are trying to make a living. I just do it for fun, but man-- the whole music industry and everything else is likely to be automated within the decade
(I just discovered suno like last week)
(Edit: Examples (yt tracker removed))
I wanted to just post an mp3 file to Lemmy. But it doesn't work I remembered there was a website called "bandcamp" I tried that You had to go through the whole rigamarole of creating an account then you upload the file but no, it wants a flac file not an mp3 and it wants a title image, but 1024x1024 is not good enough, it's minimum 1400x1400 so I just upscale my image in some other software
and finally I could post, the link to a bandcamp, that apparently is only good for 200 playback ?! And they probably have ads and stuff too and are going to get people to subscribe and whatnot
All that just to post an mp3 file like I did here
https://lemmy.ml/post/21313857/14254237
Why doesn't Lemmy just take mp3 files when it does mp4 video files ?! It's weird and annoying !
Catbox isn't ideal because a lot of countries and ISPs block it, but it allows uploading of arbitrary files. MP3 files should work fine.
Or if you want, something like SoundCloud or (from a quick Google—I don't know how reliable this is) Vocaroo.
Yeah, it will eventually break, anything external is not ideal. Youtube seems like the only reasonnable option but it's so tedious, they ask a bunch of question and it is going to break some day. Some day youtube will break external viewings from other websites.
Pretty sure this is just a stupid questions spambot.
Use torrents, lemmy is not meant to be a file sharing service. We can't afford the hosting costs for video and music.
I disagree, I am sorry, I really do. This MUST be supported.
1 terabyte of storage costs 5$ per month, 3 terabyte of data costs 3$ per month. You can host my 800kilobyte music file the same way you can host my 800kilobyte image and my 800kilobyte video It cannot be hosted elsewhere as page load means cognitive break from the original message, it ruins the message.
paywall the feature I don't mind I will pay it forward
pict-rs supports video, search these terms
undefined
[media.video] allow_audio = false PICTRS__MEDIA__VIDEO__ALLOW_AUDIO = true
Music is just a video file without a video track and video already works !