# The best music format for Flash?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-best-music-format-for-flash/22033>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 29, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-best-music-format-for-flash/22033 "2003-05-29T12:52:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![JK87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/0ea827/32.png) [@JK87](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JK87)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-best-music-format-for-flash/22033/1 "2003-05-29T12:52:39Z")

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I was wondering what the best music format (e.g. .mp3) is when you have it running with Flash? For example, the music running on a website for the intro.

Also, where do you get your music and sound effects (for websites et all) from?

- Make/Mix your own,
- Purchase them from professional sites,
- Have some nifty musical friends who make/mix them for you,
- Other (please specify :)).

Thanks,  
JK.

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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:** [May 29, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-best-music-format-for-flash/22033/2 "2003-05-29T14:54:32Z")

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[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21210&highlight=best+sound+format](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=21210&highlight=best+sound+format)

[http://www.flashkit.com/loops/](http://www.flashkit.com/loops/)

search flashkit or kirupaforum

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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:** [May 29, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-best-music-format-for-flash/22033/3 "2003-05-29T15:20:05Z")

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I did actually search kirupaforum for “Sound format” and couldn’t find what I was looking for after about 5 minutes of searching :).

Anyway, FlashKit seems pretty useful and that thread you linked to seems to address the question indirectly.

Thanks,  
JK.

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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:** [May 29, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-best-music-format-for-flash/22033/4 "2003-05-29T22:09:02Z")

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well now that you can load external files i go with mp3’s. but otherwise my vote is wav

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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:** [May 30, 2003, 9:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-best-music-format-for-flash/22033/5 "2003-05-30T09:22:50Z")

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I think that’s what I’m going to go with when I start attempting to integrate sound into my Flash animations (i.e. when I start making decent Flash animations).

Thanks,  
JK.

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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:** [May 30, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-best-music-format-for-flash/22033/6 "2003-05-30T18:51:39Z")

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lol no problem man, yea it works well like that 🙂

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**Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/the-best-music-format-for-flash/22033/7 "2003-05-30T19:03:44Z")

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Hmm… I was following the “creating a sound bar” tutorial and I have my own music file that I wanted to use but when I imported that and set it up, it doesn’t loop properly - there is a second or so of nothing added to it. Thus, it sounds pretty bad.

I know there is already a thread regarding this problem but it doesn’t explain how to solve it without having to use ActionScript to tell Flash MX to load the music file (and I’m not sure how to implement this into the sound bar that I have created following the tutorial).

If you know how to solve this problem, please let me know.

Thanks,  
JK.