"Unspecified error during import of AudioClip" - 2019.1.0f2 Linux?

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Hi,

I installed current Unity 2019.1.0f2 on *ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64Bit Linux using UnityHub.
When I try to import OGG audio files I get the following error messages for each file:
“Unspecified error during import of AudioClip” ?
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Jesse

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Did some searching…
I tried: “sudo apt install lib32stdc++6 -y” - did not help.
Also tried: “touch *.ogg” on all ogg files in terminal - did not help.
Out of ideas, not a good way to start

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I also ran into this problem and tried multiple things but did not get it working. It also doesn’t work with mp3

Unspecified error during import of AudioClip Assets/_ProjectAssets/Resources/Audio/Instructions/HFS.mp3
done. [Time: 174.074655 ms] ```
I did notice that when I converted to ogg that the audios that were less then a second worked.
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If you have a project that can repro this, please submit a bug.

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Sorry, I gave up on Linux Unity.
Running Windows 10 Pro 64Bit now with Windows Unity.

Jesse

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Story of my life lol. But please still do a bug report, it will help the Linux team find the issues faster and make a better product so we can have a more reliable Unity in Linux faster :slight_smile:

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I found that my problem was that for some reason Unity on Linux can’t use audio files with a bitrate lower then 73k mp3. So currently this is my way of fixing this.

for f in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -b:a 128k "new-${f}"; mv -f "new-${f}" "${f}"; done

Basically some of my mp3 files come from Amazon Polly which produces 48k 22050Hz Mono

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Try launching unity hub from a terminal and see if you get any error messages.
/home/[USERNAME]/apps/UnityHub.AppImage (This is where my app image is in Ubuntu 18.04)
I got this error message: 'Failed to load module “canberra-gtk-module” ’
I googled it and found that I needed to run “sudo apt install libcanberra-gtk-module libcanberra-gtk3-module” and it fixed the problem.

EDIT: The problem came back again. I saved my project and closed Unity. Then I started unity hub from a Terminal with sudo. Now I can import audio files without error messages again. How odd…