# Streaming MP3 Problem

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-mp3-problem/132817
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [January 2, 2005, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-mp3-problem/132817 "2005-01-02T09:46:31Z")
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### Author: ![fosod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc79bd/32.png) [@fosod](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fosod)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2005, 9:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/streaming-mp3-problem/132817/1 "2005-01-02T09:46:31Z")

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I’m having trouble understanding why these two links sound different, when they have the same source MP3 file:

[www.fosod.com/music/start.mp3](http://www.fosod.com/music/start.mp3)

and

[www.fosod.com/music/soundfile.swf](http://www.fosod.com/music/soundfile.swf)

Can you hear it? The second link sounds tinny, bitcrushed, compressed, digitized, cruddy–but it is merely an AS link to the first! The “soundfile.swf” is a Flash movie that uses the following Actionscript to stream the mp3 file “start.mp3” as a source:

```auto
var startSound = new Sound();
startSound.onLoad = function (loadedOK) {
	if(loadedOK) {
		startSound.start();
	}
}
startSound.loadSound("http://www.fosod.com/music/start.mp3", false);

```

Pretty simple and straightforward, right? Next, I have not modified the default AUDIO aspects of the export settings in Flash MX 2004 Pro AT ALL… so my export preferences are:

Version: Flash Player 6  
Load Order: Bottom Up  
ActionScript Version: ActionScript 1.0  
Audio Stream: MP3, 16kbps, Mono  
Audio Event: MP3, 16kbps, Mono  
Override Audio Settings: Unchecked  
Export Device Sounds: Unchecked

…so what the helk is the problem? I’ve made a zillion movies with sound before and I’ve never had this happen. It sounds like Flash is compressing the sound in real time, before it streams… for instance, if I “Test Movie” locally, the problem is the same. Weird stuff. On a side note, the last thing I did in Flash (unrelated file) was export to a .MOV file. Could that have somehow changed some audio export feature somewhere?

Please help!

-Fosod.