Audio for Flash

i recently learned basic flash. now i am making a product presentation and i need to embed an 18 minute audio in this straight forward animation. i cant seem to do it so what i did was i cut up the presentation into 7 parts and used load movie instead. the integrity of the audio is very important so i encoded it at a high quality mp3 setting, mono. the 18 minute mp3 file is still too big for flash, hence i cut them up.

can anyone show me how to do this so i can create the presentation in one swf file instead?

thanks

Flash freaks after 900 frames, so the animation all together is an impossibility, but…you could make a multiple movie loader, dynamically load the sound into that, and go from there.