Bad Request: failed to process audio: corrupt or unsupported data

[midou221]

{"err_code":"Bad Request","err_msg":"Bad Request: failed to process audio: corrupt or unsupported data","request_id":"514f0042-b572-48c2-833c-4be5eb6b77c9"}
I always get this response when I try to send a request..
I'm using the Okhttp library and send the mp3 file through it..

val pickAudio = registerForActivityResult(ActivityResultContracts.GetContent()) { uri ->
        val file = getFileFromUri(uri!!)
        if(file!!.exists()) {
            NetworkHelper.sendCall(file).enqueue(object : Callback {
                override fun onFailure(call: Call, e: IOException) {
                    e.printStackTrace()
                    Log.e(TAG, "onFailure ${e.message}")

                }

                override fun onResponse(call: Call, response: Response) {
                    Log.e(TAG, "onResponse ${response.body.string()}")

                }

            })
        }

    }

   fun sendCall(audioFile: File): Call {
        val requestBody: RequestBody = MultipartBody.Builder()
            .setType(MultipartBody.FORM)
            .addFormDataPart(
                "file", audioFile.name,
                audioFile.asRequestBody("audio/mp3".toMediaTypeOrNull())
            )
            .build()

        val request: Request = Request.Builder()
            .url("https://api.deepgram.com/v1/listen")
            .header("Authorization", "Token ****************************")
            .post(requestBody)
            .build()

        return client.newCall(request)
    }

honestly I can't figure out the bug..
I hope there will be support for Kotlin or Java like other languages

[jjmaldonis]

Hey @midou221! A Bad request error message is often due to some part of the request being formatted incorrectly.

One thing you can change right away is using audio/mpeg rather than audio/mp3 because technically audio/mp3 isn't a mime type.

Also, when an audio file is loaded into a byte array and passed to the Deepgram API, the key:value pair that goes in the data part of the request is: {"source": <your audio byte array>}. So if you change "file" to "source" that will help. You'll also want to include the mime type in the data part of the request, so the full data part will look like this:

{"source": <your audio byte array>, "mimetype": "audio/mpeg"}

It's also possible that the Bad request message could be coming from the URI, so if neither of the above are fixing the issue, could you copy-paste the URI so we can take a look?