Hackage for Android and Vonage voicemail .wav's

08 Sep 2010

Froyo (Android 2.2) broke the playing of Vonage’s attached voicemails. I think it’s because they’re not really .wav’s or something, but whatever the reason, it’s a total pain in the ass.

Presumably it’ll be fixed in Gingerbread, but it was driving me crazy in the meantime.

I hacked together some of the worst code ever. I honestly felt like I was programming like an AI would: Google for something, paste it, run it, then read it to see why it didn’t work, and repeat.

Anyway, it took me almost an hour, so here it is case it helps someone else.

Put it in wavconv.py (or whatever) and run it as:

python wavconv.py your_user_id@gmail.com your_gmail_password

It uses sox to convert the wav’s to .ogg which seem to play OK on my Nexus One. To install sox on Ubuntu, just do:

sudo apt-get install sox

Please feel free to leave a comment if you know how to do it for another platform.

It sits in a loop and checks for messages every 2 minutes, converting them if it sees a new one. So, you’ll probably want to run it on a server in a screen session. Or maybe it’d be better in cron and delete the loop/sleep.

Contents of the above link, below.

import email, getpass, imaplib, os, smtplib, sys, time
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.message import MIMEMessage
from email import Encoders

if len(sys.argv) != 3:
    print "usage: wavconv.py user@gmail.com your_password"
    raise SystemExit()

user = sys.argv[1]
passwd = sys.argv[2]

while True:
    m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
    m.login(user, passwd)
    m.select("INBOX")

    resp, items = m.search(None, "(SUBJECT \"new voicemail\")")
    items = items[0].split()

    for emailid in items:
        resp, data = m.fetch(emailid, "(RFC822)")
        email_body = data[0][1]
        mail = email.message_from_string(email_body)

        if mail.get_content_maintype() != 'multipart':
            continue

        #print "["+mail["From"]+"]: " + mail["Subject"]

        for part in mail.walk():
            if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
                continue

            if part["Content-Transfer-Encoding"] != "base64":
                continue

            filename = mail["Date"]
            filename = filename.replace(" ", "_").replace(":", "_").replace(",", "_")
            # hacky non-dupe!
            if os.path.exists(filename) or mail["From"] == user:
                break

            fp = open(filename, "wb")
            fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
            fp.close()
            os.system("sox " + filename + " conv.ogg")

            # build a response and send it (ugh!)
            msg = MIMEMultipart()
            msg['Subject'] = mail["From"] + ", " + mail["Subject"]
            msg['From'] = user
            msg['To'] = user
            attach = MIMEBase('audio', 'ogg')
            part.set_payload(open("conv.ogg", 'rb').read())
            Encoders.encode_base64(part)
            part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="conv.ogg"')
            fp.close()
            msg.attach(part)

            s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
            s.ehlo()
            s.starttls()
            s.ehlo()
            s.login(user, passwd)
            s.sendmail(msg["From"], [msg["To"]], msg.as_string())
            s.quit()

            print "converted", filename

    time.sleep(120)

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Hackage for Android and Vonage voicemail .wav's