Bug 158630

Summary: Writer unable to save inserted audio objects in Microsoft compatible formats
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: FLS <francois.salvat>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG    
Severity: normal CC: francois.salvat, miguelangelrv
Priority: medium    
Version: 7.6.4.1 release   
Hardware: All   
OS: Windows (All)   
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Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Attachments: Writer file contains an audio object
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Description FLS 2023-12-10 15:15:12 UTC 
Description:
When inserting an audio file in a word doc and saving it in Microsoft Word 2010 or Word 2007, when opening it again, the audio objects have disappeared. 

IT WORKS ONLY IN THE ODF FORMAT.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a new Writer file
2. Insert any audio file
3. Save the file in Word 2007 or Word 2010 format
4. Close the file and open it again.


Actual Results:
Any audio inserted object has vanished.

Expected Results:
Any audio inserted object should be kept.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
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Locale: es
Module: TextDocument
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OS: Windows (All)
OS is 64bit: no
Comment 1 FLS 2023-12-10 15:22:11 UTC 
Created attachment 191346 [details]
Writer file contains an audio object

Saving the attached file in Word 2007 or Word 2010 format, the pb will be easily observed.
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2023-12-10 23:50:52 UTC 
Open the odt file with Word, the media file is also missing.

I think it is not possible to insert audio files in Word.
Comment 3 FLS 2023-12-11 01:21:14 UTC 
Gooling "How to insert multimedia objects" in a MS Word doc?", you´ll see many links that indicate it is actually possible to include any kind of multimedia objects, not only audios, videos as well.
Comment 4 m_a_riosv 2023-12-11 12:17:00 UTC 
Created attachment 191355 [details]
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What I see is that it is possible to insert in Word as OLE object, but the embed file in your sample file is a Draw object, not an OLE object.
Inserting an OLE object in Writer, it is there by opening the file in Word.

On the other side, saving as docx, doesn't save those Draw objects.
Comment 5 FLS 2023-12-11 14:21:18 UTC 
As I don´t have a MS Word processor at hand, I'm not able to testing its capacity to handle embedded audio objects.
What I see in the Bugzilla interface is that under the label "Attachments", it is clearly mentioned that the "Writer file contains an audio objet (4.54 MB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)".

Anyway, it's not so big deal, there is the possibility to export the file in PDF format which supports embedded multimedia objects.
Thank you for your attention and support.