Playing Smartphone Recordings in Ubuntu 9.04
by Andrew Cullison - August 19th, 2009. Filed under: Android, Audio, Linux, Smartphones, Voice Recording.If you have a smartphone (e.g. Android Phone or Iphone), then you probably have some cool app that lets you capture audio recordings.
Problem: These are in a 3gp format that, for some reason, doesn’t play well with a clean Ubuntu.
Answer: You need some codecs and a player that will communicate with those codecs.
- Install Add Mediubuntu repositories to your software list. Here’s the command line code for Jaunty.sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
- Add the AMR codecs. I searched “AMR” in the package manager and installed (amrwb, amrnb, amrita)
- For some reason, not all media players will play 3gp files even with this stuff installed. But RealPlayer 11 for Linux will. (Click here to download the file)
That should do it.