Hey, i was wonderign how you can add a mp3 with out taking up so much room. i tried to add 3 mp3’s earlyer, and it ate up my file limit. How can i get atleast 3 songs with out going over my limit. I have seen it done before, but i just dont know how to. :sigh:
Try changing the bitrate, this should make the file sizes smaller. I’m not sure how to do it though, cause I don’t work with sound and mp3’s much:sigh:
how to add a mp3 to what alex a swf???
externaly load them, like dont put them in your flash movie, call them from the server. or convert to .oog
hey mike, can you explain a little more.
thanks:)
well thers two ways but lowering the bitrate messes up the sound experience, what i do is i make a mc with a mp3 which is set to stream and export it as a swf just the sound file, this is really cool because it keeps looping you just gotta make sure the movieclips timeline is as long as the audios stream, then you would use some loadmovie action and itll work wonders and itll start playing real fast since its set to stream hope that helps a bit
Now if you want you can choose publish settings in flash and play with the bitrate settings for mp3s in flash or you could also do this wiht a sound app like cooledit, acid or soundforge but i dont recommend this the diffrence in sound is terribly noticeable
what you can also try to do is use VBR or variable bitrate. there is less loss in VBR than encoding it with a straight low bitrate because with VBR the encoder (Lame for example) detects at which points in the song doesn’t necessarily need to be encoded at a high bitrate, so it encodes it at a lower one. you can do a lot with VBR like set it’s average bitrate so its “judging” veers more towards that average bitrate. although the MP3 has various bitrates, there is no difference between the sound at each bitrate change. you really can’t tell the difference when the bitrates change. try it out. the cd-ripping program CDex has the lame encoder built-in and you can also encode MP3s within the program itself using the encoder.
i just got a problem. i uploaded one song with a preloader, and i reached my space limit. I guess it took up alot of room lol 
No matter how you load it on your server its going to waste your bandwidth upon loading.
You can use short loops to reduce bandwidth usage.
To lessen load time you can dynamically load them into the player via AS and loadSound(), but this only makes them lessen the load time of your actual site, it doesn’t take away from bandwidth usage because no matter what the viewer will have to load the whole file… which uses up the same amount of bandwidth no matter what method of usage.
i think i just might stick to loops, just until i get more space on my site. 
yeh i use loops My mate from http://www.cobracommandcenter.com makes me some but they were killing my site size so the ones that sound ok on 8bit i have on 8bit and the others I leave at 16bit works a treat speakin of which i need to get some new loops.
-Tom
