Azure Media Services for transcoding and delivering audio

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I have a common use case scenario where I want to do the following

  • Upload an audio file. (wav/mp3)
  • Transcodes to 128k or 192k mp3.
  • Stores the audio asset.
  • Allows the audio asset to be streamed.
  • Supports streaming actions such as play pause and seek.

The documentation for azure media services seems like it might be able to support this but I am not too sure, seems like they focus on video content. Anyone have experience with this?

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You can manage audio and encode audio only assets with azure media services.

WAV is supported input format/conatiner as a input asset. To see full list of supported formats check following link: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/media-services-media-encoder-standard-formats/

Check https://github.com/Azure/azure-content/blob/master/articles/media-services/media-services-custom-mes-presets-with-dotnet.md#audio_only to see audio only preset options which you will use to encode an audio only preset.