Hi everyone, I’m new to Descript and trying to use it for some audio transcriptions from field recordings. I keep running into an issue on my phone where files over about 500MB just won’t upload. The progress bar gets stuck or the app crashes.
Is this a known limit? I’m on a decent Wi-Fi connection. Coming from a data engineering background, I’m curious if there’s a workaround like chunking the file or a setting I’m missing. Any advice would be great.
Building my first pipeline.
PipelinePadawan
500MB is a common mobile app upload limit, not just a Descript issue. The issue isn't usually your connection. Mobile SDKs often have timeouts or memory constraints that kill large transfers before they complete.
Your chunking idea is correct for a workaround. You'd need a separate tool to split the file before uploading, then reassemble in Descript. It's not a setting.
For reliable ingestion of files that size, I'd use the desktop application. The network stack is more resilient.