Uploading audio loops; unwanted silence

I understand this isn’t the right category, but I can’t post in the bug reports category for some reason.

The Issue:

When uploading audio loops in the .ogg format to roblox through studio or the website, studio will add unwanted silence to the end (or beginning I can’t tell yet) of the audio file. This creates a break in the would be perfect loop.

What I’ve noticed:

This is an issue that has only recently come up. I had previously uploaded another loop a couple of days ago that worked just fine, but upon re-uploading for testing, the very same audio file had added silence.

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The working audio ID that was uploaded before the bug:

  • rbxassetid://6946887030

The reuploaded audio (same file on my machine) ID:

  • rbxassetid://6958166674

I have also had a friend of mine try uploading an audio file that loops, and they also encountered this issue.

I suspect something changed with how Roblox uploads their audio files and was wondering if you guys had any thoughts or input on this.

Any help is greatly appreciated in advance.

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contact @Bug-Support showing them photos and telling them how to repro issue.

There is a question about the audio. If you can open Audacity, can you review the end section of the audio and see that it doesn’t leave some kind of silence?

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Yes, I forgot to mention in the original post that audacity shows the audio to be a couple tenths of a second shorter, without any silence

Uhoh, I investigated the audio and it turns out it isn’t an .ogg file! You have an .mp3 file, in fact! Here is how I did it:

  1. I opened the links to respective audios
  2. I downloaded the preview audios through some magic of inspect element; the asset is available under some content delivery network
  3. I checked their extensions, proven to be the issue:

The new audio:

The old audio:

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Uhoh, I investigated the audio and it turns out it isn’t an .ogg file ! You have an .mp3 file, in fact! Here is how I did it:

That must be part of the problem then, because that file as of uploading it to roblox was an .ogg file without a doubt.

I don’t think it is an .ogg file. Can you double-check its information(data) through its file? If that doesn’t work, can you upload your file here?

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Maybe roblox is somehow misidentifying/converting the audio upon uploading? And in turning it into in mp3 we are getting the added silence that mp3s come with.


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Good idea, I didn’t realize I could upload audio files.

Okay, I just checked without having to download it, it is indeed an .ogg you’re holding there. While that’s a concern, I have to check if there were any other audios affected by the same issue or not.

Finally, we confirm this is indeed a bug.

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Well played! thanks for uploading the bug report. Hopefully this gets sorted out soon.

Thanks for the report! We’ve filed a ticket to our internal database and we’ll follow up when we have an update for you.

Thanks for the report! We have fixed the issue and this should no longer occur now.

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All fixed! My appreciation guys, ( ´ ▽ ` )

This issue should now be resolved! If this issue is still occurring, please create a new topic for us to look into.

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