# Adding audio with an mp3 url

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**Created:** [July 17, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-audio-with-an-mp3-url/64016 "2023-07-17T16:12:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![mbrr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@mbrr](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mbrr)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-audio-with-an-mp3-url/64016/1 "2023-07-17T16:12:45Z")

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Hi everyone! I want to add an audio to one of my pages. The file is ready on my laptop & I use the “audio” component in Glide app.  
I red before that to publish an audio file I need an audio file extension, such as .wav, .mp3, or .m4a, and be publicly accessible. However iCould & Google Drive wouldn’t work.

I cannot find any website that can solve the issue there. If you used the audio component before, how did you manage to get the mp3 url ?

Thank you for your help

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-audio-with-an-mp3-url/64016/2 "2023-07-17T16:20:16Z")

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I can’t speak for iCloud, but Google Drive can work as long as the file is publicly shared and you use the correct url.

> [@Audio File not possible to listen](https://community.glideapps.com/t/audio-file-not-possible-to-listen/63870/5):
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> Hi @artoguide, Like Jeff said if you have made that file public ( or MAKE does that for you ) then you have to format the drive URL a bit to make it available in the audio player! Check this post for that : [Audio player not working? - #2 by Dilon\_Perera](https://community.glideapps.com/t/audio-player-not-working/63537/2) Thank you

However, Google Drive is not always reliable, and not recommended for hosting files used in this way. You would be better off directly uploading the file to Glide’s storage.

> **[File and Image Pickers | Glide Docs](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/essentials/components/file-and-image-pickers)**
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> Let users upload files and images to your apps.

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**Author:** ![Robert\_Petitto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/robert_petitto/32/25193_2.png) [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 4:21pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-audio-with-an-mp3-url/64016/3 "2023-07-17T16:21:20Z")

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> [@Jeff\_Hager](#):
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> You would be better offdirectly uploading the file to Glide’s storage.

This is what I recommend for sure. You can actually use the image column type to upload the file and then switch it to a text or URL column type to view the generated link.

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**Author:** ![mbrr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@mbrr](https://community.glideapps.com/u/mbrr)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2023, 4:26pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-audio-with-an-mp3-url/64016/4 "2023-07-17T16:26:37Z")

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> [@Robert\_Petitto](#):
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> text or URL colu

Works perfectly, thank you so much

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/system/32/53398_2.png) [@system](https://community.glideapps.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2023, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/adding-audio-with-an-mp3-url/64016/5 "2023-07-18T16:27:18Z")

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