# Importing Sound Files - error reading file

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-sound-files-error-reading-file/278312>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 27, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-sound-files-error-reading-file/278312 "2008-12-27T01:08:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![underskin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@underskin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/underskin)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/importing-sound-files-error-reading-file/278312/1 "2008-12-27T01:08:03Z")

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Hi … Yesterday I was making this splash intro of 1 sec with a cat zooming in followed by a ‘Meow’ mp3 sound… the only problem is that I tried again and again to import the sound file, compressed in as many possible ways as you can imagine , stereo, mono, wav, mp3, 80, 92, 128 etc… and it constantly failed to import… i got this ‘‘error reading file’’ … but the file was not corrupt… i could play it…and even flash could play it when dynamically loaded with a sound() object… I managed to make the thing work using the a listener event and coding … but that is really scaring me because i know i will have projects where i will have to import a bunch of translated narration files, and that will be a catastrophe if it doesn’t work then… Does anyone have a link to some specific specifications regarding sound files that can and can’t be imported in the library ?