# 6mb sound streaming slowing down flash player

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 24, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/6mb-sound-streaming-slowing-down-flash-player/62027 "2004-08-24T08:08:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![trypp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@trypp](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/trypp)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/6mb-sound-streaming-slowing-down-flash-player/62027/1 "2004-08-24T08:08:06Z")

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hi

im trying to stream a 6.5 meg audio file (at 24kbps) into a flash movie. after about 15 minutes the whole player gets really slow, in a browser everything gets unstable and if i try close the window i get a “not responding” thingy. do u think this is the streams fault? its just an swf i load in with a really long timeline and the sound set to stream - should i rather use the AS attachSound method?

thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/6mb-sound-streaming-slowing-down-flash-player/62027/2 "2004-08-24T18:49:14Z")

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If u break the file into several smaller files (no more then 500kb each) and load them one after the other, it should play smoothly, because the next on will be loading when the first one is playing.  
Also, it will reduce the chances of making your computer grind to a stop

Hope this helps

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/6mb-sound-streaming-slowing-down-flash-player/62027/3 "2004-08-24T20:16:31Z")

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6mb audio file?? is it mp3 or wav? try seeing if you can make the file size smaller, to about 2 or 3 megabytes if possible…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2004, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/6mb-sound-streaming-slowing-down-flash-player/62027/4 "2004-08-24T21:41:26Z")

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but 2-3 megs would still be slow on a dail up connection.  
when testing the movie, go to debug\>simulate download, to see the time it takes on differant connections

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2004, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/6mb-sound-streaming-slowing-down-flash-player/62027/5 "2004-08-25T07:35:38Z")

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thanks Majeye will try that out 🙂 cant make the file size smaller, its already mono, 24kbps, the client wants it to be 20 minutes so i have to stick with that…