diff --git a/src/datasets/features/audio.py b/src/datasets/features/audio.py
index b53dd2d2663..69ab8625596 100644
--- a/src/datasets/features/audio.py
+++ b/src/datasets/features/audio.py
@@ -295,16 +295,22 @@ def _decode_mp3(self, path_or_file):
             try:  # try torchaudio anyway because sometimes it works (depending on the os and os packages installed)
                 array, sampling_rate = self._decode_mp3_torchaudio(path_or_file)
             except RuntimeError:
+                warnings.warn(
+                    "\nTo support 'mp3' decoding with `torchaudio>=0.12.0`, please install `ffmpeg4` system package. On Google Colab you can run:\n\n"
+                    "\t!add-apt-repository -y ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4 && apt update && apt install -y ffmpeg\n\n"
+                    "and restart your runtime. Alternatively, you can downgrade `torchaudio`:\n\n"
+                    "\tpip install \"torchaudio<0.12\"`.\n\nOtherwise 'mp3' files will be decoded with `librosa`."
+                )
                 try:
                     # flake8: noqa
                     import librosa
                 except ImportError as err:
                     raise ImportError(
-                        "Your version of `torchaudio` (>=0.12.0) doesn't support decoding 'mp3' files on your machine. "
-                        "To support 'mp3' decoding with `torchaudio>=0.12.0`, please install `ffmpeg>=4` system package "
-                        'or downgrade `torchaudio` to <0.12: `pip install "torchaudio<0.12"`. '
-                        "To support decoding 'mp3' audio files without `torchaudio`, please install `librosa`: "
-                        "`pip install librosa`. Note that decoding will be extremely slow in that case."
+                        "To support 'mp3' decoding with `torchaudio>=0.12.0`, please install `ffmpeg4` system package. On Google Colab you can run:\n\n"
+                        "\t!add-apt-repository -y ppa:jonathonf/ffmpeg-4 && apt update && apt install -y ffmpeg\n\n"
+                        "and restart your runtime. Alternatively, you can downgrade `torchaudio`:\n\n"
+                        "\tpip install \"torchaudio<0.12\"`.\n\nOtherwise 'mp3' files will be decoded with `librosa`:\n\n"
+                        "\tpip install librosa\n\nNote that decoding will be extremely slow in that case."
                     ) from err
                 # try to decode with librosa for torchaudio>=0.12.0 as a workaround
                 warnings.warn("Decoding mp3 with `librosa` instead of `torchaudio`, decoding is slow.")