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Forwarded audio or video files and voice notes can't be played on Desktop and iPhone #6510

Closed liliakai closed 6 years ago

liliakai commented 7 years ago

Summary: Forwarding a voice note changes its content type from 'audio/aac' to 'audio/*'

  1. Send a voice note to Alice.
  2. Forward that voice note to Bob.
  3. Open Alice's thread on Desktop.
  4. Open Bob's thread on Desktop

Expected result: Both threads contain playable audio messages.

Actual result: Only Alice's thread contains the playable audio message. Bob's thread contains an empty message.

Debugging on the desktop side reveals that the content type on the original was "audio/aac", but on the forwarded message was "audio/*". This applies both to the message forwarded to Bob's client, and the message synced to Alice's Desktop client under Bob's thread, both will get "audio/*" content types. I manually changed the content type on Desktop to "audio/aac" and was then able to play the message.

liliakai commented 7 years ago

Looks like this applies to videos too: #6617.

automated-signal commented 6 years ago

GitHub Issue Cleanup: See #7598 for more information.