# Matroska audio support?

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/matroska-audio-support/121390
**Category:** MusicBrainz Picard
**Tags:** filetypes, picard
**Created:** [August 28, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/matroska-audio-support/121390 "2016-08-28T11:46:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![TheHardew](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@TheHardew](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/TheHardew)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2016, 11:46am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/matroska-audio-support/121390/1 "2016-08-28T11:46:14Z")

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Would it be possible to add matroska audio (.mka) support to picard? It has more features than .mp3 and .mp4, and can have smaller sizes with same audio stream.

Thanks in advance.

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### Author: ![outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/outsidecontext/32/90_2.png) [@outsidecontext](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/outsidecontext)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2016, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/matroska-audio-support/121390/2 "2016-08-28T12:25:40Z")

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Yes, would be great. See [http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/PICARD-35](http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/PICARD-35)

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### Author: ![BenMcLean](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/benmclean/32/96269_2.png) [@BenMcLean](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/BenMcLean)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2026, 10:41am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/matroska-audio-support/121390/3 "2026-04-26T10:41:01Z")

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I made a plugin.

> <https://gist.github.com/BenMcLean/107663c60c2e61c864c57cb330c605ae>