Azure Media Services for transcoding and delivering audio

Question

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?

Answer 1

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.