# Trouble with importing MP3s into flash
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-importing-mp3s-into-flash/62822
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 31, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-importing-mp3s-into-flash/62822 "2004-08-31T18:34:52Z")
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### Author:  [@pseudodigm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pseudodigm)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2004, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-importing-mp3s-into-flash/62822/1 "2004-08-31T18:34:52Z")
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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2004, 7:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-importing-mp3s-into-flash/62822/2 "2004-08-31T19:27:44Z")
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](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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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2004, 10:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/trouble-with-importing-mp3s-into-flash/62822/3 "2004-08-31T22:29:52Z")
try just havin AS load the file instead of importing it to flash. that way you wouldnt lose quality as well