# \[ANY\] Flash support for mid files?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-flash-support-for-mid-files/7366>\
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**Created:** [October 29, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-flash-support-for-mid-files/7366 "2002-10-29T14:38:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![FLATLINE\_\_](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FLATLINE\_\_](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FLATLINE__)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2002, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-flash-support-for-mid-files/7366/1 "2002-10-29T14:38:45Z")

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Why doesn’t flash support midi files?? It would be so great if it did!

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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:** [October 29, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-flash-support-for-mid-files/7366/2 "2002-10-29T21:44:50Z")

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why would that be great?

midi is very limited. also you can just convert a midi to mp3 or whatever and probably get a smaller file size.

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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:** [October 30, 2002, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-flash-support-for-mid-files/7366/3 "2002-10-30T05:14:27Z")

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What are you talking about?? The compression of midi is the only reason I want Flash to support it! You can have a 4 minute long midi and it’ll be less than 100k !!

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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:** [October 30, 2002, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-flash-support-for-mid-files/7366/4 "2002-10-30T17:39:12Z")

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oh 🙂

but still … midi’s don’t sound good

though it would be nice if flash would support them just b/c they’re there

maybe you can just put the midi in the html source on the page containing your flash movie 🙂

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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:** [October 31, 2002, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/any-flash-support-for-mid-files/7366/5 "2002-10-31T15:51:10Z")

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Well I’ll tell you why I wanted Flash to support MIDI in the first place:

If you’ll look in my profile and my website you’ll see that I’m a DOOM freak. And I wanted to make a DOOM game/movie in Flash and use the original DOOM soundtrack (I have utilities to extract the original music files) which are in MID format. Every such music file is approximately 3 to 5 minutes long! And less than 90K !!! So I thought it’ll be a real pain to convert a 90K music file to MP3 and get a 5 MB music file probably with worse sound quality! So I think it could be really awsome if Flash supported MIDI files.:cool: