# Problems importing sound!

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 7, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-sound/9236 "2002-12-07T22:51:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Merlynite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@Merlynite](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Merlynite)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-sound/9236/1 "2002-12-07T22:51:28Z")

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When I try to import these two sounds with Flash 5, I get “Cannot import because there were problems reading it.”

[http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Ambience/TEMPLE-Adam\_Goh-7394/index.php](http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Ambience/TEMPLE-Adam_Goh-7394/index.php)

[http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Interfaces/Bloops/Bloop-Public\_D-39/index.php](http://www.flashkit.com/soundfx/Interfaces/Bloops/Bloop-Public_D-39/index.php)

can anyone help?

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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:** [December 8, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-sound/9236/2 "2002-12-08T18:59:33Z")

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Try opening them in some sound-editor program and saveing them to 2 separate sound files and try importing the new files.

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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:** [December 8, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-sound/9236/3 "2002-12-08T19:06:55Z")

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hmm, what kind of sound editor? I have the mp3, not the wav, and i want to keep as tiny a size as possible.

Also, i tried to download the “flashtrak” and i got a .swf file, that supposedly has the sound, how do i, say, set it as the ambience?

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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:** [December 8, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-sound/9236/4 "2002-12-08T20:49:42Z")

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hum… dunno…! Any sound editor…

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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:** [December 8, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-sound/9236/5 "2002-12-08T21:47:39Z")

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uh, okay, lets forget about that =\ How do i convert a flashtrak (from [flashkit.com](http://flashkit.com)) to a symbol?

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**Post date:** [December 9, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-sound/9236/6 "2002-12-09T19:27:23Z")

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a flashtrak?

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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:** [December 9, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-sound/9236/7 "2002-12-09T23:05:20Z")

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you can download files as a “flashtrak” which turns out to be swfs… go [www.flashkit.com](http://www.flashkit.com)

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**Post date:** [December 10, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/problems-importing-sound/9236/8 "2002-12-10T18:00:37Z")

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Download the wav i.e. right click on the wav link and choose the “save link as …” option, then import the wav into the fla either File-\>Import or Ctrl+R

Don’t worry about file size you can set the mp3 compression when you export the swf.

If you want to use the flashtrak which is a swf you can either import it as a resource in the FLA or attach it using actionScript