File formats

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Hello all,

I discovered AntennaPod thanks to an Italian website dealing with open source software (AntennaPod, la migliore app per ascoltare podcast - Le Alternative) and it’s amazing!!

While trying to add from local folder, I saw that some file formats aren’t read: I searched a list of file formats but didn’t find.

Could you just give indication? I could be useful to have them listed in FAQ.

Thank you!

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Hi! AntennaPod adds all files that your system detects as audio files. What file formats are you missing?

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.pls

But now I realized that that file I have on the phone is for online streaming, so it may not properly be considered an audio file.

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Yeah, pls is a playlist that contains links to media files. It is not a media file itself.

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Back on this topic: a podcast I follow has loaded an episode in .m4a format (Dove andrebbe la mia distrazione se mi concentrassi? | Tommi Space)

Phone’s player is able to recognise it as media file, but AP does not play it.

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AntennaPod does support m4a files. What is the exact feed url? What error message do you get?

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The feed is Sconnesso

I don’t get any error message: AP correctly downoad the episode file and even starts playing it if I press play, simply I don’t hear anything

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AntennaPod can play all files that your Android system can decode. That file uses an ALAC codec in an MP4 container. ALAC is not officially supported by Android and I have never seen a podcast that uses it. I am pretty sure that other podcast players will also have trouble playing that file. Maybe you could write the podcast creators and ask them to use a more common codec such as mp3. Unless we ship our own audio decoder (which would make the app size at least 5 times bigger), there is nothing much we can do here.