# Text displays OK. Related media file does not play
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** beginner
**Created:** [August 29, 2020, 8:46am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643 "2020-08-29T08:46:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@zap1](https://community.thunkable.com/u/zap1)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 11:26am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/21 "2020-08-29T11:26:23Z")
That sounds good. I’ll pursue this.
Thanks to all of you for getting me closer to the finish line.
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 11:27am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/22 "2020-08-29T11:27:55Z")
Try change type column for audio to Single Line Text - 
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### Author:  [@gobassky](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gobassky)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 11:33am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/23 "2020-08-29T11:33:50Z")
Single line text will only allow you to store the URL. Here the whole audio file was uploaded as “attachment” and zap1 was asking how to play the audio from there. and when we read from the getcell block, it returns the object that contain the URL to access the file. Very cool feature. Just tried with audio and images. This effectively makes Cloudinary redundant. Except uploading files in-situ, this cloudinary can, airtable cannot.
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### Author:  [@zap1](https://community.thunkable.com/u/zap1)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 11:34am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/24 "2020-08-29T11:34:51Z")
Then I can stop reading about Cloudinary.
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/25 "2020-08-29T12:45:10Z")
Basic example for getting a link to an audio file uploaded to airTable
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### Author:  [@gobassky](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gobassky)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/26 "2020-08-29T13:57:01Z")
> [@actech](#):
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> Basic example for getting a link to an audio file uploaded to airTable
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> 
This is advanced method using webAPI blocks with Airtable native REST API. A lot more powerful. 😅
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### Author:  [@Balanced\_Kitchen](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Balanced_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/27 "2020-08-29T14:04:43Z")
What is the URL in this case?
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2020, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/28 "2020-08-29T14:56:17Z")
See airtable api samples in control panel of AirTable for your table
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### Author:  [@zap1](https://community.thunkable.com/u/zap1)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2020, 9:47am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/29 "2020-08-30T09:47:44Z")
Sorry for the delay.
FYI:
‘The System’ cut off further access for me, as follows:
“You’ve reached the maximum number of replies a new user can create on their first day.
Please wait 21 hours before trying again.”
Anyway:
So, I changed the AirTable column type to Single Line Text, as suggested by @actech.
All cells immediately showed URLs after the file names already in the cells. Nice.
I pointed Sound1 to “url” using ‘get property of object’ as per the block suggestion from @gobassky.
(see below.)
But still no sound.
(Keep in mind I’m a five-year-old.)
What did I do wrong?
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### Author:  [@Balanced\_Kitchen](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Balanced_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2020, 10:26am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/30 "2020-08-30T10:26:09Z")
Add value to the object
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### Author:  [@zap1](https://community.thunkable.com/u/zap1)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2020, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/31 "2020-08-30T13:33:51Z")
Thanks for helping me with this.
But, still not sound after doing that.
I will test this with another spreadsheet in case that, for some strange reason, will make a difference!
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### Author:  [@Balanced\_Kitchen](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Balanced_Kitchen)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/32 "2020-08-30T15:40:26Z")
See the attached photos above and check if your blocks match them.
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/33 "2020-08-30T17:48:48Z")
After converting the column, it will contain dirty data, not a clean URL. You will either need to manually clear the values, or do this by using blocks automatically to get a clean URL value
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### Author:  [@gobassky](https://community.thunkable.com/u/gobassky)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2020, 9:05am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/34 "2020-09-03T09:05:52Z")
Try to put each subsequent purple blocks inside “then do”… Do note that these blocks are asynchronous. Your block arrangements suggested that you are trying to play a sound before the getcell completes getting the url… .
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 12:24pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/text-displays-ok-related-media-file-does-not-play/777643/35 "2024-11-08T12:24:13Z")
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