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[Feature]: Support audio files
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I know Immich is mainly focused on images, but I do have a couple audio memories (wav, mp3..) that I'd like to have on Immich as well rather than needing to use a secondary cloud service.
I think this would be a nice feature to have to support all kind of memories.
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Personally I don't believe this is really the idea behind Immich and I think it would be quite difficult to implement these in a way that looks nice in the UI alongside the photos and videos as we wouldn't have any way to generate a thumbnail for the file. I'll leave this open to gather more feedback from the other devs but my vote would be against adding this to Immich.
I think that a simple music note placeholder wouldn't be bothering (especially if you're the one adding it knowingly), but that's an understandable statement.
Proposed it due to the goal being to store memories ~~(and Google Photos allows this)~~, and images are only a part of it. Curious about Alex's position on this.
From the library we use to upload assets from the phone. I remember seeing an options to get audio type asset. I think this can help with uploading such file.
I think it can be done, but it also requires a lot of work on all platform to render/play the content. Since this is a niche feature, I think it will be done at a later day when we finish other major features.
To help with this, can you help with a guide on how to create an audio memory? Do you know if it is also showed in the gallery?
I see, that's perfectly fine, I don't have many myself.
I'm not sure to fully understand your request? To get my audio files, they either come from an audio recorder app on my phone, or downloaded online from audio libraries.
Though my bad sorry, it wasn't Google Photos displaying those but another Gallery app I had (just called Gallery), never really noticed it switched to it when playing audio files. So they don't show up in Google Photos, and Gallery just had a music note instead of the usual image preview.
And even though it's under the "Feature request" tag, it was really more of a general question/future feature (after production or something).
Personally, I'm fine converting my audio files to mp4 using something like a music note to generate the preview.
@Eidenz From my understanding that the audio file is stored in a different location rather than the location photos and videos are stored, so it might be difficult to obtain the file.
When it comes to this feature, I will let you know more about what I find out.
After further consideration, this feature won't be implemented as it doesn't fit into the vision of the app.