Telegram Bot API: voice message audio spectrogram is missing. A bug? - api

I'm developing a Telegram bot and I have a question about sendvoice API to send voice (audio) messages.
I push a OGG file converting from a MP3 source file, using ffmpeg for conversion, with the command:
$ ffmpeg -loglevel panic -i \
/path/to/la_piattaforma_telegram_è_perfetta.mp3 \
-c:a libopus -compression_level 10 -frame_duration 60 -vbr on -application voip \
/path/to/la_piattaforma_telegram_è_perfetta.ogg -y
BTW, the MIME type appears correct:
$ file --mime-type -b \
/path/to/la_piattaforma_telegram_è_perfetta.ogg
audio/ogg
The audio file is correctly played as expected, but the (minor) problem I have is that Telegram client (desktop/android/any) doesn't show the "waveform" (audio spectogram, as that in the blue widget in the image below), instead the waveform is visualized as a single line.
Any idea about how to show the waveform graphic? There is any specific OPUS format required to allow nice visualization?
$ mediainfo /path/to/la_piattaforma_telegram_è_perfetta.ogg
General
Complete name : /path/to/la_piattaforma_telegram_è_perfetta.ogg
Format : Ogg
File size : 5.37 KiB
Duration : 2 s 79 ms
Overall bit rate : 21.2 kb/s
Audio
ID : 1485113069 (0x588506ED)
Format : Opus
Duration : 2 s 79 ms
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Channel positions : Front: C
Sampling rate : 16.0 kHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Writing library : libopus unknown-fixed
The lack of the waveform visualization could be because the audio track is mono (1 channel)?

I solved the issue.
It was my fault/bug (mostly). I answer now to my self to share the solution I just found.
Telegram SendVoice API docs states audio file to be sent must be in an .OGG file encoded with OPUS,
so, as described in my question, I used ffmpeg to convert the original (source) file, that was an .MP3, to the .OGG required format.
Unfortunately, for a bug in my program I sent the MP3 original audio instead of the converted OGG :(
Weirdly, Telegram API accept the MP3 audio format WITHOUT errors, but in this case DOES NOT display the spectrogram (showing instead just a continuous line).
Now, by sending the correct .OGG file I get the expected spectrogram!
BTW, to be picky, there is still a MINOR bug on Telegram API, related to the specifications on the API endpoint documentation (sendVoice does accept ALSO .MP3 and not only .OGG files).

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