Trouble with importing MP3s into flash

programming flash
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Hi. I’m making a presentation flash movie with voice playback. I’m using the free sound recorder “audacity”. The problem I’m having is that Flash refuses to import some of the sounds that I export from audacity. I get a “Flash does not recognize the file format of “blah.mp3” would you like to try to import it with Quicktime”

It didn’t do this just yesterday…the only think I can think of is that I messed with the settings in audacity, of which there are a lot.

Could someone tell me exacly what flash is looking for in an mp3? mhz and bitrates and what not? Does anyone know of a utility that will strip away all but the essentials from an mp3?

Thanks,

pseudo

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You might check to make sure the quality setting of the MP3 is at or below 160kbps:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/mp3import.htm

If that doesn’t work you might check the MP3 settings trying some different things. For example, that it is 16bit sound, not 8bit.

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try just havin AS load the file instead of importing it to flash. that way you wouldnt lose quality as well