[BUG] Audio files don't playing

[EquinoxRevolt]

Description

Uploading mp3 files or any other file type that it accepts through the upload music button does not work. Instead it gives me an error saying the video format is not supported.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Step 1 Open the app
2. Step 2 Click the upload music button in the top right when you press on your profile picture
3. Step 3 Upload music file of choice
4. See error

Expected Behavior

Expected behavior is being able to play the music.

Actual Behavior

Instead when I play any sort of audio file that it allows me to upload it doesnt play at all, giving me a "This video format is not supported" error and skipping the song completely.

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Environment

• Operating System: Windows 10
• Version of the App: 1.16.0
• Additional information: N/A

Additional Information

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[deeffest]

Hi, the thing is that QtWebEngine (the engine that displays the YouTube Music page) does not include by default the proprietary audio and video codecs (H.264 and MPEG layer-3) that should play your uploaded mp3 files.

I figured that the way out of this situation would be to convert the uploaded music to, for example, ogg format (QtWebEngine supports this format). But no, when uploading local music, no matter what format it is originally in, YouTube Music itself converts it to the m4a format, which is not supported along with mp3 due to the lack of codecs I mentioned above.

It turns out that the only solution at the moment is to completely rebuild QtWebEngine and include codecs to play m4a audio files, which is of course problematic and not so easy in my case, but I will do it anyway and share any new information with you regarding this problem.

[EquinoxRevolt]

Ah, that's rough, please take your time working on this and don't stress about it! I appreciate the fact that you even went through the effect of making this awesome app for people like me to use. Your work does not go unappreciated and I'm making sure you understand that!

It's not a big deal to me anyway, it's very rare when a song is not on any sort of streaming service, in my case the one song that I wanted to listen to isn't on youtube music, but is on soundcloud, all I care about is being able to listen to it, so eh. I can wait however long it takes for this rebuild of yours to be implemented. Thank you for your hard work, have a nice day.